This page lists training courses and workshops for graduate students.
Please check the University of Waterloo's Centre for Teaching Excellence website for Workshops and Events for Graduate Students.
Rock your thesis
Rock your thesis
The second in the three-part “Rock Your Thesis” series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to start writing a large academic writing project like a thesis, dissertation or dissertation proposal. This hands-on, interactive program has four objectives:
- Introduce strategies for describing the contribution and significance of your research project
- Give you a chance to create or revising guiding research questions for your literature review
- Review a range of organizational options for structuring your literature review
- Help you to balance making a clear argument with academic integrity when paraphrasing and summarizing
This workshop is best suited for Master’s and PhD students who have selected a research topic for their thesis or dissertation and are ready to write, or writing, the project proposal or the project itself.
When: April 16
How to participate: Register on Portal
Design and Deliver Grad Studio
Welcome to Design & Deliver Grad studio, a workshop series that takes you through the process of planning and designing a spoken academic presentation. If you’re working on a specific presentation, we encourage you to attend all three: start by organizing your ideas in “Planning for and preparing presentations,” learn how to create engaging slides in “Slide Design,” and practice strategies for confidently answering questions in “Defending and Answering Questions.”
When: April 24, May 8, and May 22
How to participate: Register on Portal
Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Literature: A workshop for graduate students
The literature review can be a challenging and time-consuming component of a research project. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can’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.
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.
When: June 5
How to participate: Register on Portal