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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Speak Like a Scholar - Winter 2023!
Are you a Master's or PhD student interested in developing your voice as a scholar? Then come join us for our Speak Like a Scholar program, which is available again for the winter 2023 term!
Rock Your Thesis - Winter 2023!
Get ready to write grads! Our Rock Your Thesis program is back again for the winter 2023 term!
RYT 1: January 27th 1-4pm
RYT 2: February 17th 1-4pm
RYT 3: March 30th 1-4pm
Grad Writing Cafés - Winter 2023!
To help our grads stay connected and motivated, the WCC offers writing café sessions each week where graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty can write together, support each other, and get support from the WCC!
Events
IBPOC Student Writing Café
The IBPOC Student Writing Cafés are spaces where Indigenous, Black, and graduate students of colour can come together to form supportive communities of writers.
In-person Grad Writing Cafés
Grab a coffee and get writing.
IBPOC Student Writing Café
The IBPOC Student Writing Cafés are spaces where Indigenous, Black, and graduate students of colour can come together to form supportive communities of writers.
Blog
Psychologically speaking: your brain on writing
Remember when you were little and just learning how to write? Just writing your name was a huge accomplishment. Yet with practice, it became much easier. The brain is not a muscle; although, in some ways it develops like one. The more you use it in a specific way, the more able it is to perform the task. So what is the brain actually doing while you write? The following are a number of brain areas that work together to form ideas and get them down on paper.
Frontal Lobe
The poetics of originality: how to be creative
Why is creativity so elusive? We see artists and poets and marvel agape at their powers of creation, but in truth creativity is a learned thing – a practice of insight and introspection. You too have the potential to produce art almost as good as the greats, if only you look in the right places. It doesn’t matter that no one’s listening.
