Events

Ready to rock your thesis? Join our workshop series for expert talks, hands-on activities, and guidance from support staff. Register today at https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/rock-your-thesis

Join us March 3 to 7 for Procrastination Awareness Week! Procrastination Awareness Week (PAW) is an LSAC-funded cross-institutional collaboration that invites post-secondary students to learn more about procrastination, develop effective habits, connect with one another, and make progress on their end-of-term to do lists.

The WCC is back with another round of pop-up tutoring! 

The kitchen has long been a site of both nourishment and defiance —a space where survival, culture, and activism converge. This talk explores how food serves as a powerful tool of resistance, from the resourceful cooking of enslaved and oppressed peoples to the current and impending food injustice movements that call to questions folks understandings of a tariff and bird flu. Blending activism, and personal storytelling, Radical Recipes highlights the ways in which marginalized communities have used food to preserve identity, sustain resistance, and build collective power.

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 program has four objectives:

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.

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 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. 

Make every word count. Learn how to revise for clarity and unity, and turn your drafts into elegant, succinct prose by condensing your sentences without sacrificing their sense.

Instructor: Amy Greene

Date:

• Thursday, June 25 at 11am-1pm

Register for the workshops through WCOnline.

Writing an essay exam requires a special method of preparation. This workshop covers a range of strategies and components to help you: including how to manage your time, how to organize your ideas, and what is required in an essay exam. Join us for fun and practice.

Instructor: Amy Greene

Date:

• Thursday, July 9 at 1-3pm

Register for the workshops through WCOnline.