The University of Waterloo Writing and Communication Centre is a hub of communication and writing practice, support, and research on campus. Writing a paper? Designing a portfolio? Giving a presentation? From brainstorming to revision, understanding your assignment to presenting your work, we are here to support you in any discipline, at any stage of the communication process.
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IBPOC Writing Café
Join us for biweekly sessions of the IBPOC Writing Café starting Thursday June 16 from 5:00-7:00 pm. The IBPOC Writing Café is a space where graduate students identifying as Indigenous, Black, and people of colour can come together to form a supportive community of writers. This is an intentional IBPOC-only space. You can join the IBPOC writing groups channel through WCC’s Teams.
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/current-graduate-students/waterloowrites
Appointment Availability
The WCC will have fewer appointments available for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from June 14 to 16 as some of our staff are attending the Consortium on Graduate Communication conference this week. Drop-in and evening and weekend appointments are still available.
Online Workshops
Whether you want to learn how to write for the sciences, revise and edit, or create an awesome presentation, we've got over 35 online workshops available to you anytime, anywhere through LEARN. Follow the link for more info.
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/services-0/workshops
Online English Conversation Circle
The ECC program offers a place to share resources, tell stories, and practice everyday communication. Join us Wednesday from 3:00 to 4:00 pm and Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 pm.
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/services-0/english-conversation-circles
Hybrid Writing Cafés
Write together and connect with other grads, post docs, and faculty members at the Hybrid Writing Cafés! Sessions are held online and in the SLC Grad lounge on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and Wednesdays from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/writing-cafes
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Literally figurative: a guide to navigating your literals and figuratives
A stroke of creativity
Think back to your first swimming lesson, or the first time you went to the pool. Did you jump in with both feet right away? If so, how did that go? Likely, you got in slowly, or if you decided to take the leap, hopefully someone caught you before you got into trouble. Now think of an Olympic swimmer like Katie Ledecky or Penny Oleksiak. How do they get in the water at the start of a race? When the buzzer goes off, there’s no time to use the ladder.
Thesaurus abuse: or a gross misappropriation of lexicon
A thesaurus groups together words that are similar in meaning. It exists for those tip-of-the-tongue moments when the right word seems just out of reach: “Gah! I need another word for something that’s pretentious … to be pretentious, to put on airs … Ah! An affectation!”