As a Master's or PhD student, or Postdoc you're faced with complex research and large-scale writing projects. Work with us to develop your scholarly voice and to build strategies for tackling your research paper, article, presentation, thesis or dissertation.
Programs
Scholarship Research Proposal Workshopping
When: September 9 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Where: GSA lounge (SLC 3216)
Join the WCC in the GSA lounge to make progress revising your doctoral  CIHR,ÌýNSERC, or SSHRC scholarship research proposal! We'll start with some brief general advice from the WCC on structuring and revising your proposal. Then you'll have an opportunity to apply that advice and get individualized feedback from WCC staff and other applicants in a workshopping and peer review session. Work alongside other graduate students in a supportive environment as you draft and revise your proposal.
We'll have WCC staff standing by to offer feedback and answer questions about your research proposal document as you work!
Please bring a copy of your research proposal in progress with you, along with anything else you will need to work on it (e.g. a laptop).
Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Literature Review: A Workshop for Graduate Students
When: September 25 from 11:30am to 1:30pm
Where: Online through Teams
The literature review can be a challenging and time-consuming component of a research project. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) ³¦²¹²Ô’t write your literature review for you, but this workshop will explore and introduce GenAI tools you may use as supports in the literature review process. We will identify ethical, legal, and intellectual property pitfalls associated with GenAI use, and offer guidelines and strategies for productive, ethical, and appropriate use of specific GenAI tools for specific purposes at each stage of the research and writing process.Â
This interactive workshop is a collaboration between the Library and the Writing and Communication Centre and is designed for graduate students who are working on a literature review as part of a project proposal, thesis or dissertation, or a standalone journal article.Â
This is an online workshop. Participants will join via MS Teams.
Publishing in Academic Journals: A workshop for graduate students
When:Â Friday, November 21 from 11:00am to 1:00pm
Where: MS Teams
Whether you need to publish your manuscript to meet a degree milestone, are interested in building your publication record to pursue an academic career, or just want to share your research with the world, this workshop is for you! This interactive workshop will share strategies for meeting your publishing goals. You’ll learn about factors to consider in selecting a target journal, working with co-authors and making progress on your article draft, decoding editors’ decision letters, and responding to reviewers’ feedback and revising your article. You’ll also practice applying some of these strategies to your own project.
By the end of this workshop you will:
- Understand the publication process
- Identify strategies for planning, collaboration, drafting, and revising
- Practice responding to reviewer feedback
New WCC workshop: The Rock Your Thesis Guidebook
You’re about to finish your course work or comprehensive exams and have started to think about writing your thesis or dissertation. Where do you begin? The WCC has launched a new self-paced guidebook as an accompaniment to its popular in-person Rock Your Thesis workshop series. Through four modules, the Rock Your Thesis Guidebook walks students through the thesis- or dissertation-writing process from planning to drafting to revision to convocation! Visit the to access it.