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News

  1. June 17, 2021WCC Director, Clare Bermingham to give a talk at the Year of Covid-19 event

    We are excited to watch Clare Bermingham, Director of the WCC, talk about supporting student writers virtually and speakers today at the A Year of Covid-19 research talk. 

  2. Feb. 9, 2021Annual Report 2019-2020
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    Writing and Communication Centre 2019 -2020 Annual Report

    The 2019-2020 Writing and Communication Centre Annual Report is now available on our website! 

  3. Nov. 12, 2020Two Winter Co-op Positions Available!
    Winter Co-op Position Available

    Hey UWaterloo!

    Looking for a winter co-op position? Come work with the WCC team!
    We have two Strategic Projects Associate positions available.
    Deadline to apply is Thursday, November 12!

    Apply on waterlooworks.uwaterloo.ca.

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Blog

  1. Jan. 18, 2021Interview with UW’s award-winning graduate student presenter, Nikolay Videnov
    Image of Nikolay Videnov wearing a dark coloured shirt and smiling at the camera

    Last semester, Nikolay Videnov won the Best Presenter award at the University of Waterloo and the University of Strathclyde’s Virtual Research Colloquium. We love to see UW students succeed at presentations, so we thought we’d reach out and have a short conversation about how that presentation came together, and to pick Nikolay’s brain about the process.  

  2. Oct. 8, 2020Find the “write” balance this Reading Week
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    Hey, it’s fall reading week! The weather is getting cooler. Time to curl up with your laptop and a cup of tea, and spend some time getting caught up on your work. What do you have on your plate?

  3. Sep. 14, 2020How to turn the high school “hamburger” essay into a university-level paper
    5-paragraph hamburger essay

    It goes by many names: the 5-paragraph essay, three-tier paper, or 1-3-1 model, to name a few. Many of you know it as the “hamburger” essay – an easy-to-follow model for writing papers that’s often taught in North American high schools.

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