English language support

Support Workshops

Our Support Workshops are two hours long and are designed to help you with many of the English language and academic skills you will need as you study with us at Napier.

Usually, you will be taught a new skill for about 1 hour and will be given the opportunity to practice and ask questions in the second.

We will be flexible and do our best to respond to your needs as we progress through the trimester.

Some of the topics we can cover are: 

• Language 
• Criticality
• Structure
• Themes and Rhemes
• Report Writing
• Scholarship and plagiarism
• Referencing
• Paraphrasing
• Defining and classifying
• Comparing and contrasting
• Cause and effect
• Problems and solutions
• Evidence and conclusions
• Being concise
• Paragraphs
• Effective sentence structure
• Linking sentences together
• Synthesising sources

In trimester 1 of 2025/26 we have an exciting program of Support Workshops to help you get the most out of your time studying at Napier. You are welcome to enrol on one or more of these workshop programs.

• Online Writing Workshop for Undergraduates (Online)
• Online Writing Workshop for Research Postgraduates (Online)
• Online Writing Workshop for Taught Postgraduates (Online)

For trimester 1 of 2025/26, Support workshops will take place online. If you would like to be enrolled, please email EAP.Enquiries@napier.ac.uk and give your full name, Napier ID and programme of study. Once enrolled, you are expected to attend the workshops every week until the end of the trimester.

If you attend more than 70% of the workshops that you enrol on in a trimester you will be given a certificate of attendance.

English Language Café

Our English Language Café is an opportunity to come and socialise and practice your English language skills in a relaxed and fun environment. If English is your 2nd+ language this will be a great chance for you to use and expand your language skills in a supportive, interesting, and friendly environment. You will be given the chance to speak and interact freely with new people from other programs and also engage in structured activities that will encourage you to use your language skills in new, communicative ways.
The English Language Café will be held every week and will last for 1 hour. You can choose which campus you would like to attend.

One-to-one Support Sessions

If you need more personalised support with your academic writing, you can book a one-to-one Support Session. These sessions are 30 minutes long and give you the opportunity to discuss your written work with one of our tutors.

For trimester 1 of 2025/26, the one-to-one Support Sessions can be taken either online or in-person on campus. To book a one-to-one Support Session, you should email EAP.Enquiries@napier.ac.uk. Please specify if you would prefer to meet online or in person on campus. You can only book one tutorial at a time, however you can have several tutorials throughout the trimester.

The timetable for Trimester 1 of 2025/26 is below.

For more details, please contact our team at EAP.Enquiries@napier.ac.uk or contact Iain Arnott, Head of English for Academic Purposes (I.Arnott@napier.ac.uk).