Boost Your Writing Skills With the Academic Success Centre’s Online Workshop Series
Are You Ready to Elevate Your Writing Skills?
The Academic Success Centre can help with that! This fall, we are offering Building Your Writing Foundation, a series of seven online workshops, each tailored to refine a specific aspect of academic writing.
Sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 12:15-12:45pm, Sept. 13 – Oct. 25, 2023. Students are welcome to attend any or all of the seven sessions. No registration is required!
Building Your Writing Foundation Workshop Schedule
Workshop 1: Writing Professional Emails
What does a professional email look like? When should I send one?
Date: September 13, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Description: Join this workshop to learn all about professional emails: when to send them, what they look like and sound like, how to structure them, and how to write with a professional tone.
Workshop 2: Claim and Evidence
How do I support a claim? What even is a claim?
Date: September 20, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Description: Join this workshop to learn what a claim is, how to strengthen your claims with reasons, and how to back them up with evidence. Learn how to provide evidence with both personal experience and research.
Workshop 3: Reflective Writing
What does it mean to reflect? How can I write about what I’ve learned?
Date: September 27, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Join this workshop to learn what reflective writing is and how to spot a reflective writing assignment. Learn a reflective writing structure you can use in your assignments and see it in action with a discussion board post example.
Workshop 4: Paragraph Structure
How should I organize my ideas in a paragraph?
Date: October 4, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Description: Join this workshop to learn how to organize big ideas and details into a clear paragraph. The paragraph structure you will learn can be applied to all types of academic writing assignments, including summaries, reflections, discussion posts, essays, reports, and more.
Workshop 5: Summarizing
How can I reduce a text to only the main idea?
Date: October 11, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Description: Join this workshop to learn what summaries should and should not include. Learn how to write a summary that accurately expresses the main idea of a text.
Workshop 6: Paraphrasing
How do I use other writers’ ideas in my writing?
Date: October 18, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Description: Join this workshop to learn how to write another person’s ideas in your own words and how to incorporate into your writing. Learn a five-step process to paraphrase effectively.
Workshop 7: APA Citations and Formatting
What is APA citation style? Where can I find information to use APA accurately?
Date: October 25, 2023 12:15-12:45pm
Description: Join this workshop to learn the basics of why and how the APA citation style is used in many academic assignments. Then, learn how to use online resources to become confident in creating in-text citations and references in the APA 7th edition citation style.
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Content submitted by Meg Loewen, Academic Support Specialist – Academic Success Centre