Current graduate students

Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, participants will build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining their own voices and identities as writers. 

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Write in community — not in isolation. 

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Grab a coffee and get writing. 

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 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. Bring your laptop with you to get the most out of the hands-on practice session during this workshop.

Drop-ins at Dana Porter Library are back for the Fall 2023 term! Spots are walk-in only and are booked on a first come, first served basis.

When: Tuesday to Thursday from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Where: Dana Porter Library (next to the circulation desk)

Tuesday, September 12 to Thursday, December 7, 2023.

Writing a dissertation or thesis? Our Rock Your Thesis workshop series puts you on the right path. Balancing talks from support staff across campus with hands-on activities, we guide you through planning, drafting, and revising your thesis or dissertation.

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Drop-ins at Dana Porter Library are back for the Fall 2023 term! Spots are walk-in only and are booked on a first come, first served basis.

When: Tuesday to Thursday from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Where: Dana Porter Library (next to the circulation desk)

Tuesday, September 12 to Thursday, December 7, 2023.

Drop-ins at Dana Porter Library are back for the Fall 2023 term! Spots are walk-in only and are booked on a first come, first served basis.

When: Tuesday to Thursday from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Where: Dana Porter Library (next to the circulation desk)

Tuesday, September 12 to Thursday, December 7, 2023.

Want more confidence in English? Join the English Conversation Circles (ECC) to practice your English conversation skills and learn more about life in Canada with other international students! Our weekly meetings are open to undergraduate and graduate students. Each meeting offers a friendly and supportive environment to practice speaking English and share our experiences.

When: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Where: SCH 228F

Dates: September 27 to November 9, 2023

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Hosted by Ileana Diaz, the IBPOC Student Writing Cafés are spaces where Indigenous, Black, and graduate students of colour can come together to form supportive communities of writers. Structured by timed writing spurts and breaks, these groups make space for concerns specific to IBPOC writers.

When: Thursdays, from 4:30pm-6:30pm EST (Sept. 28 to Dec. 14, 2023)
Where: Virtual Writing Café using MS Teams

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