Writing and Communication Centre

Talking and Doing Social Justice: Broadening my Horizons at the IWCA Conference

Zoe Sponagle — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Last month, my fellow Arts First peer tutors and I travelled to Baltimore to host a roundtable discussion at the annual conference for the International Writing Centre Association. Our presentation was on “Embodied Multiversalism in WC Staff: Fear vs Fundamental Duty to Social Justice”. We discussed our experiences navigating the often exclusionary world of academia, and considered how tutors can best support the students who come for writing assistance.

Tags: arts first, peer tutor, undergraduate students, graduate students, conference

Challenging the Writing Centre at the IWCA Conference

Gemma Turner — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

In October, I attended the International Writing Centers Association conference in Baltimore, as a peer tutor working for the University of Waterloo’s Writing and Communication Centre. It was the culmination of many months of work, ending with my fellow tutors and I presenting a roundtable discussion on “Embodied Multiversalism in WC Staff: Fear vs Fundamental Duty to Social Justice.”

Tags: arts first, undergraduate students, graduate students, peer tutor

Balancing Productivity and Self-Care in Grad School During COVID-19

Graeme Northcote — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:00:00 +0000

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:

Tags: graduate students, advice, productivity, COVID-19, balance

Genre series: Graduate school application

Ariel Alexandra Quehl Fullerton — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to a new term! At the Writing and Communication Centre, we have noticed that many students are working on their personal statements and letters of intent for upcoming graduate school applications.

Tags: graduate students, graduate school, genre, resources, application, advice, writing, conventions, Centre for Career Development

Biology graduate student’s approach to writing is infectious

Nadine Fladd — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:00:00 +0000

I knock on a door and am greeted by Meghan Fuzzen, a PhD candidate in biology whose research focuses on determining the impact of treated wastewater on the reproductive health of fish in the Grand River.

Tags: academic, advice, breaks, dissertation boot camp, graduate students, graduate school, productivity, strategies, time management, writing, writing process, writing tools

Welcome to the UWaterloo Writing Centre!

Brandon Petryna — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:00:00 +0000

This is our blog – welcome. We are literally buzzing in our seats anticipating all of the writing we will have to do to keep everything here looking fresh. Our co-ops are English professionals so they don’t mind.

Tags: Writing and Communication Centre, drop-ins, writing, appointments, WCC, undergraduate students, graduate students, Writing Centre