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

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. 

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to come to the Writing Centre Open House on Wednesday, September 16 from 1-4 p.m. The Writing Centre will showcase its activities to support writing and communication, which include:

Unleash your Super Powers Halloween Costume contest!                           

Date: Friday, October 30

Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Where: Dana Porter, South Campus Hall, or Student Life Centre

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to the Writing Centre’s 40^th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, October 20. Drop by STC Main Lobby from 10am-4pm.

Reception from 2-4pm, with opening remarks at 3pm.

As the Writing Centre reaches its 40th year milestone, we look backward at the ways that writing and communication have changed.