When writing in groups, supervision time will be allotted according to group size. 2–5 hours of supervision to a single undergraduate writer and 5–7 hours of supervision to the postgraduate thesis writer. For these capstone projects, supervision by faculty is always given, approx. 25 pages while a master's thesis ranges from 40–80 pages. In Danish Higher Education, students are expected to write individually and/or in groups from the first semester throughout the entirety of higher education, perhaps starting with shorter tests, written assignments, or essays (opgaver) and soon moving into other genres such as the research paper (selvstaendige opgav semesteropgave), projects (project), or report (rapport) representing a piece of inquiry with a research question and an empirical and/or theoretical research.

From the bachelor's project and through master's level research papers and thesis, larger writing projects will be supervised by faculty. A lot of writing is required at Danish universities but may not be explicitly taught, tutored, or instructed. A majority of exams in Danish curricula are term papers, projects, reports, and written exams however, oral exams also occasionally take place. Therefore, instruction for academic writing (process and product, genres, rhetorical stance, argumentation, reader orientation, linguistic registers, etc.) is taking on an increased importance.

This is widely acknowledged and publicly debated, also in a ' standards-are-falling ' frame where faculty deplore that you may pass university exams with inadequate writing skills (even in the humanities) as well as with scant discipline knowledge. The era of unhurried trial and error university writing is coming to a close. Research, reading, and writing have to be condensed and pressed towards presentational writing as results of modular structure and an ' activity requirement ' (since 2010) for studies (a condition for receiving a continued government grant that is claimed to be the highest study grants in Europe) which makes postponing and failing exams much more difficult for both students and faculty. Generally, all writing and study processes are being sped up. It also exacted a requirement for timely completion on all levels of study. The Bologna Process imposed deadlines on writing the master's thesis, limiting it to six months from no deadline at all in the previous system. Denmark has long since adopted the Bologna structure of university studies, and by now 5 years (plus maximum one year) is being enforced as the total duration of bachelor's and master's studies. Denmark is one of Europe's smallest countries and has a total of eight universities and a number of university colleges.

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