WCH Peer Tutoring - Writing
About
NUS Writing & Communication Hub is a friendly and welcoming space open to NUS Students. 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.
Undergraduate Writing Peer Tutors
Suman Padhi
Graduate Programme: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Bachelor's Degree: Economics (BA with Honours, Yale-NUS)
Languages: English, French, Hindi, Odia, Latin, Ancient Greek
Suman is a concurrent degree student pursuing their master’s in public policy at the LKY School of Public Policy. They graduated from Yale-NUS College in 2025, majoring in Economics. As an aspiring economist, their research and work focuses largely on the intersection of labour and development economics through policy work targeting urban interventions and labour market issues. As an undergraduate, they’ve been attached with the Writer’s Centre since their second year, whilst serving 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, having focused on creative writing as part of their minor. With experience in various 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.
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 Yale-NUS literature and final year NUS law student. Unable to choose what she wanted to study, she decided to study two courses. She is excited to hear and learn about the experiences and majors of her peers through the tutoring sessions. Outside of school, she loves coffee, cafe hopping and reading in her spare time.
Aw Hang Bin
Graduating Class of 2025, NUS College
Majors: Computer Science
Languages: English, Mandarin
Hang Bin is a final year Computer Science major and a student under the NUS College interdisciplinary programme. As a writing tutor for two years and counting (beginning at Yale-NUS College), he has experience writing and critiquing academic writing in both the sciences and humanities, including statements of purpose and theses/capstones. His experience has led him to believe that his tutees have only ever brought good writing pieces/ideas and that his job has simply been to react to the piece as a member of its audience. He also happens to enjoy works of fiction from multiple genres/mediums and will be happy to check out any recommendation you may have
Lex Lee
Graduating Class of 2027, NUS
Major: History/Philosophy
Language: English
Lex is a third-year History major and RC4 resident who keeps getting dragged on side quests. To him, writing is unnecessarily treated as arcane and should not be the deciding factor stopping you from exploring untrodden ground. Achieving clarity in language and argumentation are the areas he focuses on throughout the writing process. In his spare time, Lex is an avid board gamer and appreciates the fundamentals of any engine builder, which can draw parallels to academic writing: with a strong, rigorous planning process and clear ideas and lines of development, a paper can generate large amounts of value/knowledge.
Arthur Fong
Graduating Class of 2025, NUS College
Major: PPE Philosophy 2nd Major
Languages: English
Arthur is a PPE major and Philosophy second major. An avid reader of philosophy and theology, he loves mulling over deep questions over drinks or coffee. Having experienced the pain of writer's block and the agony of being too much of a perfectionist, he wants to make writing less painful for others, regardless of the phase of the writing journey they are at. He is keen to work with anyone who wants to start brainstorming, concretise rough ideas into words, or express their written ideas more clearly. As one who has felt ashamed coming to the Writers' Centre without a complete draft, but has always come out feeling refreshed, Arthur hopes to make consults an accessible and safe space for anyone feeling lost in their writing journey.
Lois Naomi Ang
Graduating Class of 2026, NUS College
Major: Political Science
Languages: English, Tagalog, Hokkien (Elementary), Mandarin (Elementary)
Adeline Leong Kar Wai
Graduating Class of 2025, NUS College
Major: Global Stduies and Management
Languages: English, Mandarin
Samuel Song En Lai
Graduating Class of 2028, NUS
Major: Economics, with a minor in Bahasa Indonesia
Languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, Thai (Elementary)
Samuel is a second-year resident at the College of Alice and Peter Tan whose goal is to learn and educate others more about Southeast Asia’s economy and potential. He studies Economics and minors in Indonesian and even did his first university internship in a consulting company located in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has previously tutored students for O Level English, but he finds more joy in assisting his friends in expressing their ideas and thoughts clearly through their university assignments (and they even get at least an A- in their assignment!). As an NUS student, he currently dedicates his time to mentoring in the Boys’ Brigade, teaching his students to express their ideas clearly in meetings and on assignments. During recess week, you will find Samuel conducting economic research on micro and small enterprises in Batam, Indonesia. During school holidays, you will find him in the rice fields of Khon Kaen, Thailand, leading a group of noisy students in a cross-cultural exchange with Thai students.