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
In-Person Workshop: Rock Your Thesis 2: Starting to Write
Rock your Thesis is a three-part program that guides graduate students through the first phases of planning and writing a thesis or dissertation.
Part 2: Starting to Write on April 16, 2025
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:
- Introduce strategies for describing the contribution and significance of your research project
- Give you a chance to create or revising guiding research questions for your literature review
- Review a range of organizational options for structuring your literature review
- Help you to balance making a clear argument with academic integrity when paraphrasing and summarizing
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 on Portal to reserve your spot!
In-person workshop: Design and Deliver Grad Studio
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.”
Each workshop will take place over 2.5 hours (with breaks) to build on each other and cover different elements of an effective academic presentation: planning out your messages, supporting your messages with engaging visual support, and answering questions about your work clearly and concisely. You are welcome to attend any workshop you feel is most relevant to you, but we encourage you to attend all three workshops so that you can learn about and plan for all three elements.
In all three workshops, you’ll be expected to brainstorm, plan, and discuss your own presentation, so it’s best to come with a specific presentation you're working on. If you don’t have a presentation coming up, come prepared to work on an academic presentation (such as a conference presentation or thesis defence) you’re likely to deliver.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 - Planning for and preparing presentations
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Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Slide design
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Thursday, May 22, 2025 - Defending and Answering Questions
Register for one workshop or all three on Portal.