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Thursday, October 15, 2026 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Generative AI and the Literature Review: A Workshop for Graduate Students

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 and 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. 

This is an online workshop. Participants will join via MS Teams.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Multilingual Writers' Studio: Revision Strategies

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.

This 5-week workshop series integrates practical revision tools with antiracist and decolonial perspectives on writing. Drawing on Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Antiracist Writing Workshop, the program treats academic writing as a cultural practice shaped by power, rhetorical traditions, and linguistic diversity.

These 5 sessions take place every Thursday between October 1 and November 5 (no session during Reading Week).

Register for session 1 and then add the other dates to your calendar.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Publishing in Academic Journals: A workshop for graduate students

Whether you need to publish your manuscript to meet a degree milestone, are interested in building your publication record to pursue an academic career, or just want to share your research with the world, this workshop is for you! This interactive workshop will share strategies for meeting your publishing goals. You’ll learn about factors to consider in selecting a target journal, working with co-authors and making progress on your article draft, decoding editors’ decision letters, and responding to reviewers’ feedback and revising your article. You’ll also practice applying some of these strategies to your own project.

By the end of this workshop you will:

  • Understand the publication process

  • Identify strategies for planning, collaboration, drafting, and revising

  • Practice responding to reviewer feedback

When:  Tuesday, October 13 from 11:00am to 1:00pm

Where: MS Teams

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Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Students' Writing Cafe

Write in community — not in isolation. 

Learn more about our Writing Groups.

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.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

If punctuation marks were people

Punctuation marks. We use them to form our sentences, to turn our incoherent thoughts into organized prose. But what if these signs and symbols had minds of their own?

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

A writer's mind: visit today!

Visit the place where the magic begins and the fun never ends. Every day is a nail-biting adventure inside A WRITER'S MIND™!

Breath-taking beauty awaits you in this rainbow-land of fantastic ideas and colour-splashed coping strategies. Consider how grand it might be to pitch-tent upon the blissful symbolic plains of the subconscious.

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!”