As a Master's or PhD student, or Postdoc you're faced with complex research and large-scale writing projects. Work with us to develop your scholarly voice and to build strategies for tackling your research paper, article, presentation, thesis or dissertation.
Programs
Apply for Dissertation Boost Camp
When: February 17-20, 2026 (9am-4:30pm)
Where: SLC 3216 (GSA Grad Lounge)
Stop stalling and start writing! Build a sustainable plan, make progress on your writing and give your productivity a boost with Dissertation Boost Camp. This intensive four-day program is designed to provide a dedicated and quiet writing space for students who are looking to jump-start their thesis- or dissertation-writing process. The program balances writing time with goal-setting and writing strategy sessions and one-on-one meetings with Writing and Communication Advisors from the Writing and Communication Centre.
Apply to Dissertation Boost Camp today using our application form.
This form will close on January 16th, 2026 at 5:00pm.
Register for the Multilingual Writers' Studio: Revision Strategies
When: Every Thursday between January 15th and February 12th from 10-12
Where: SLC 3216 (GSA Grad Lounge)
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.
Early sessions establish community agreements using a streamlined, instructor-guided process and introduce revision as meaning-making rather than error correction.
Middle sessions explore global rhetorical structures, argument placement, and cultural rhetorical expectations.
Final sessions address sentence-level clarity, local grammatical decisions, linguistic justice, and navigating standardized English with conscious choice.
Register for Rock Your Thesis 2: Starting to Write
When: Thursday, January 22, 2026 (1-4pm)
Where: SLC 3216 (GSA Lounge)
It's time to start planning your thesis or dissertation: now what?
The second in the three-part "Rock Your Thesis" series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to start writing a large academic writing project like a thesis, dissertation or dissertation proposal.
This hands-on, interactive session has three key objectives:
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Practice identifying and articulating your research contribution with the CaRS Model.
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Apply techniques for locating, selecting, and organizing literature that aligns with your research focus.
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Develop your scholarly voice by practicing strategies for critically engaging with sources—through summary, synthesis, analysis, and evaluation.
This workshop is best suited for Master's and PhD students who have selected a research topic for their thesis or dissertation and are ready to write, or writing, the project proposal or the project itself.
Register for GenAI and the Lit Review Webinar
When: Friday, February 6th, 2026 (11am-1pm)
Where: Teams
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.