WCH Peer Tutoring - Writing
About
NUS Writing & Communication Hub is a friendly and welcoming space open to all members of the NUS community. We provide regular individual writing consultations and group workshops on rhetorical skills, revision strategies, and the conventions of style and structure appropriate to different modes of writing. As consultants, we are able to provide general feedback about the articulation of ideas, tone, audience awareness, argumentation, structure, grammar, clarity, and style, regardless of the discipline, at any stage of the writing process. While we retain a focus on curricular academic writing, we are also happy to support co-curricular and extra-curricular writing endeavours. We all share the same goal of helping students to come to a deeper understanding about their own writing processes.
Graduate Writing Peer Tutors
Agimaa Otgonbaatar
Graduate Programme: MD programme at Duke-NUS
Bachelor’s Degree: Life Sciences (BS with Honours, Yale-NUS College)
Language: English
Agimaa is currently pursuing an MD degree at Duke-NUS and has previously worked as a writing tutor at Yale-NUS College for three years. She has personal and tutoring experience with academic science writing including research proposals, undergraduate/graduate module assignments, and large bodies of work such as theses and capstones. As a liberal arts college graduate, she likes working with students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to help them find and strengthen their personal voices in their writing. She avidly reads memoirs, has perfected the art of spending time with friends, and tries to find balance in the hectic medical school life!
Lee Jia Wei
Graduate Programme: NUS Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP)
Bachelor's Degree: Life Sciences (BSc with Honours, NUS)
Languages: English, Mandarin
Jia Wei is a PhD student in the NUS Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme. She is interested in research in the areas of bioinformatics and epidemiology, specifically exploring how the interplay of genetics and the environmental exposome influences the development of allergy in early life. Jia Wei enjoys writing because she feels that putting her ideas into words brings clarity of thought and is always excited to help others with their writing! Her experience lies in research papers, scientific manuscripts and popular science writing. She has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Life Sciences from NUS, specialising in Biomedical Sciences, second majoring in Statistics, minoring in Public Health and in the NUS College programme. In her free time, she enjoys reading, journaling and hiking.
Venus Dulani
Graduate Programme: Urban Planning
Bachelor's Degree: Urban & Regional Studies (BSc, Cornell University)
Languages: English, Hindi
Venus is a Master of Urban Planning student with the Department of Architecture at NUS. She received her Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and has over three years of work experience in sustainability and international development. She is eager to help students find their voice in writing, and can offer guidance on a variety of writing topics, formats, and styles.
Undergraduate Writing Peer Tutors
Ashley Tan
Graduating Class of 2026, Yale-NUS College and NUS Law Double Degree
Intended Minor/Major: Literature
Languages: English, Mandarin (Conversational)
Ashley is a junior at Yale-NUS, a second-year law student, and a huge coffee lover. Unable to choose what she wanted to study, she decided to study more courses at university. She is excited to hear and learn about the experiences and majors of her peers through the tutoring sessions. Through peer mentoring, she hopes to help her peers convey their ideas clearly, letting their creativity fully shine through their work.
Freddy Chong
Graduating Class of 2025, NUS College
Majors: Sociology and Statistics
Languages: English, Mandarin
Freddy is a final-year NUS College student, majoring in Sociology and Statistics. As a polytechnic graduate, he felt ill-prepared for university writing in his first year. Writing, to him then, is a medium to liberate one's thoughts and fears. Yet, academic writing has its own set of demands and rigour, which may instil anxiety in novice writers. He empathises with the fears and self-doubts that his peers may face in academic writing. Through supporting his peers as an active listener, he hopes to inspire them to approach writing as a mindful activity for personal growth. A free-spirited wayfarer, Freddy enjoys walking around neighbourhoods and in exploring new spaces.
Lex Lee
Graduating Class of 2027, NUS
Major: History/Philosophy
Language: English
Lex is a second-year RC4 resident whose long-term goal of doing historiography “the study of the construction of historical knowledge” keeps dragging him on side quests. Previously, he has tutored students of diverse backgrounds and introduced them to key historical concepts in volunteer programmes centred in Marine Parade, through gamification and clear content delivery. To him, writing is unnecessarily a kept gate to academic pursuits, and should not be the deciding factor stopping you from exploring untrodden ground. Achieving clarity and precision of language and argumentation are the areas he focuses on throughout the writing process. In his spare time, Lex is an avid board gamer and necessarily appreciates the fundamentals of any engine builder, including getting started on academic writing: with a strong, rigorous planning process and clear ideas and lines of development, the paper writes itself. More or less, anyway.
Loh An Lin
Graduating Class of 2025, NUS College
Major: History, with a minor in Chinese Studies
Languages: English, Mandarin
Peer Tutor Certifications: Big Writing Projects
An Lin is a final-year student of History, Chinese Studies (minor), and NUSC (USP). She spent the last year in Beijing with the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) and is glad to be back. She remembers (fondly) the stumbles and missteps she made as a first-year student transitioning to academic writing for the first time, and hopes to offer a little guidance, care, and reassurance to peers in their writing journey. She was a professional theatre practitioner before she realized history was her first love, and can also be found wrangling her projects, papers, and peers* into submission. (* in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu).
Lois Naomi Ang
Graduating Class of 2026, NUS College
Major: Political Science
Languages: English, Tagalog, Hokkien (Elementary), Mandarin (Elementary)
Naomi is a Filipino and Chinese international student from the Philippines. After accidentally making her way into NUS College, she has committed to being buried in readings and essays as a Political Science major under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Naomi decided to become a peer tutor to help other lost souls navigate their way around writing, and hopefully even love the process too! Outside of writing, Naomi also likes to debate (it's an excuse to argue with people and travel), swim (both in the USC pool and the ocean), and play mahjong (her friends say she's addicted).
See Yi Siu Karen
Graduating Class of 2025, Yale-NUS College
Major: Urban Studies
Languages: English, Mandarin
Karen is a final-year urban studies student from sunny Singapore. Studying an interdisciplinary major has exposed her to varied writing experiences, ranging from close analysis of a building to a policy memo. Besides writing about buildings, she has written news articles, poetry and written in Mandarin. She believes that good writing comes in different forms and is excited to collaborate with new writers to highlight the author's unique perspective in different forms.
Seung Eun Leticia Lee
Graduating Class of 2025, Yale-NUS College
Major: Environmental Studies
Languages: English, Korean, Portuguese (Intermediate), Spanish (Conversational)
Leticia is an Environmental Studies major from South Korea. She understands the anxiety and challenges that often accompany the writing process. As a peer tutor, she is passionate about working with students through each stage of writing, helping them express their ideas in a clear and structured manner. She believes that tutoring sessions can feel like a form of therapy, where as students discuss their ideas, they make their own realizations about what they want to convey. Through collaboration, she hopes to make the writing process more approachable and enjoyable! Outside of writing, she is an avid coffee lover, adores her dog, and enjoys watercoloring.
Sheriah Peries
Graduating Class of 2025, Yale-NUS College
Major: Environmental Studies
Languages: English, Sinhala
Sheriah (she/they) is an Environmental Studies Major from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She dabbles in creative and non-fiction writing and the occasional academic paper or two to help her share her thoughts and ideas about the world we live in, particularly concerning gender, the environment and social inequality. Sheriah believes that writing is a collaborative process, and enjoys helping others wrangle their big ideas into polished final works, and learning something new along the way! When they aren't exploring Singaporean hawker centres, they can be found trying their hand at theatre, reading and wildlife spotting in nature reserves with friends.
Suman Padhi
Graduating Class of 2025, Yale-NUS College
Major: Economics, minor in Arts & Humanities
Languages: English, French, Hindi, Odia, Latin, Ancient Greek
Suman (they/them) is an Economics major, whilst minoring in Arts and Humanities at Yale-NUS. They consider themselves a third-culture kid, having lived in several countries growing up and becoming a polyglot from their childhood. They currently serve as Co-Editor in Chief of The Octant, Yale-NUS' student publication, and as a writer for Wingspan, Yale-NUS' alumni newsletter publication. Besides journalistic writing, they are also fond of creative non-fiction and poetry, focusing on creative writing as part of their minor. With experience in various different fields of writing, they're happy to help you in whatever type of writing you are looking to work on--whether it be research, essayistic, or something technical. Suman sees writing as a journey, a lifelong one, with there always being something to learn at every stage in the process, and at any age. As a peer tutor, they hope to help you become more comfortable in your writing and your shoes as a writer.
Yehoon Ahn
Graduating Class of 2025, Yale-NUS College
Majors: Mathematics, Computational and Statistical Sciences
Languages: English, Korean
Yehoon is a third-year MCS major from South Korea. With an interest in journalism, he has worked for a magazine and a Singaporean news publication. His reading interests tend to change, but for now, he is interested in reading religious texts and personal essays. Yehoon is an amateur but passionate tennis player. Besides good tennis sessions, Yehoon appreciates well-written news articles, good coffee, and quality screen-free time. He finds joy in helping others with their writing; he is excited and honored to work with the NUS community to grow together as writers.