You’re about to finish your course work or comprehensive exams and have started to think about writing your thesis or dissertation. Where do you begin?
This workshop will equip you with the skills you need to revise your thesis or dissertation draft and plan to submit and defend it.
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.
The WCC Spring 2025 newsletter is out now! Check out all the news, programs, and events happening at the WCC this term, including
Ever wanted to work at the WCC? Now's your chance! The Writing and Communication Centre is excited to announce that we are now hiring a co-op student for the Spring 2025 term.
The IBPOC Student Writing Cafés have a new location!
In this workshop, we’ll discuss the purpose of Q&As and defences, teach you how to prepare for questions from your audience and share strategies to ask and answer questions clearly.
In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics of designing slides for academic presentations, introduce you to the Assertion-Evidence model, and give you some concrete strategies to help you make your slides engaging and useful for your audience.
In this workshop, we’ll discuss what makes an effective presentation, help you organize the ideas in your presentation, and give you concrete strategies for delivering that information with confidence.
Welcome to Design & Deliver Grad studio, a workshop series that takes you through the process of planning and designing a spoken academic presentation. If you’re working on a specific presentation, we encourage you to attend all three: start by organizing your ideas in “Planning for and preparing presentations,” learn how to create engaging slides in “Slide Design,” and practice strategies for confidently answering questions in “Defending and Answering Questions.”