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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Highlighting our Workshops!
From starting to write at the university level to putting the very final touches on your thesis, our workshops cover a wide variety of material that is aimed towards helping graduate and undergraduate students to master the world of writing! For example, here are a few of the workshops and resources that we are currently offering to grads and undergrads.
Find Us at Campus Events!
Wondering what the Writing and Communication Centre is all about? Then come and see the WCC like a student would. This Friday, October 14, the WCC will be hosting members of the Uwaterloo community at an open house organized through the Student Success Office's See it Like a Student event. Interested in joining us? Drop by South Campus Hall room 219 anytime between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. for an in-person tour of the WCC.
ECC ends today
Today is the last day of the English Conversation Circles for the Spring 2022 term! We hope you enjoyed attending these circles as much as we enjoyed hosting them!
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/services-0/english-conversation-circles
IBPOC Writing Café
Join us on July 14 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm for the IBPOC Writing Café. 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
Dissertation Boot Camp ends today!
"I improved my writing skills, and I improved my doctoral dissertation with my learning."
Today is the last day of the Dissertation Boot Camp! We hope you found the program beneficial and enjoyed participating in it as much as we enjoyed hosting it!
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/dissertation-boot-camp
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Balancing Productivity and Self-Care in Grad School During COVID-19
The title of this post is misleading. It implies that productivity and self-care are separate and opposing things. But they aren’t. We can’t be productive without taking care of ourselves. This relationship between productivity and self-care is particularly important right now, during a stressful, frightening situation where expectations on all of us nonetheless remain high. While we navigate the coronavirus pandemic together, we can try three simple things to tackle our research and writing:
Revising your assignment ft. Google the rapper
Have you ever tried getting Google Translate to rap before? It’s probably one of the funniest things you can do with translate, outside of totally messing with Disney songs. When I’m not using translate as a means to laugh though, I’m using it to revise my essay by having Google read it out loud to me. Granted, that usually is also very funny, as the automated voice has a habit for tripping over lengthy sentences as well as butchering incorrect spelling of words. Use that last bit with caution though, Google Translate does have a habit for pronouncing everyday words like “get” very wrong.
Forgotten Punctuation and Shakespeare
When I was younger, the more pieces of punctuation I could add to a written work, the more I felt like some sort of literary genius. “Yeah, I’m ten and can use a comma, period, exclamation mark, and question mark within two sentences. I’m just that cool.”