Join us for some grammar fun! This session will focus on paragraph and paper structure. We will also talk about strategies for revising and editing your drafts. These topics are helpful for anyone who needs to write formally in English irrespective of their language background. Whether you're learning English or you speak English as your

This session will discuss how to connect the literature review to your research question, build the structure for your review, and avoid some of the common traps when writing. For more information about this workshop series, please visit our writing, learning, and research skills workshops page.

Set yourself up for success by scoping your research project with succinct and realistic research questions. For more information about this workshop series, please visit our writing, learning, and research skills workshops page.

Use poetic devices to enliven the minutiae of everyday life in your poetry!  Drawing inspiration from Billy Ray Belcourt, this session will introduce you to metaphor and enjambment as the building blocks of imagery. “A Poet must look at the moon sometimes to remember that there is a trace of the cosmic already inside him.” 

Join us for some grammar fun! This session will focus on sentence structure and common errors at the sentence level. These topics are helpful for anyone who needs to write formally in English irrespective of their language background. Whether you're learning English or you speak English as your first language, you can benefit from this

The Surprising and Inevitable Art of the Glosa Learn from other poets and experiment with new uses of language by writing a glosa!  The glosa is a structured poetic tradition that involves borrowing lines from other texts. This art of “glossing”—elaborating or commenting on a text—allows writers to deepen their relationship to other poems, consider

We will focus on specific strategies and techniques that writers can use to strengthen cohesion, concision, and clarity. We recommend that participants bring an example of their own scientific writing to the workshop (e.g., draft of a research article, lab report, critical review of a scientific research article). However, instructors can provide an example text for

Registration opens 4 weeks before the event. In this virtual session, we will use Qualtrics, our online survey software, to explore the fundamentals of survey creation. We will explore: How to create a Qualtrics account How to find and use Qualtrics tutorials and training How to create a basic Qualtrics survey How to access your

This session offers strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, and revising research articles in the sciences. We will explore the key components of the Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. We will also provide a mapping tool that writers can use to organize their own scientific research articles.