The deadline to apply to Speak Like a Scholar is Friday, May 27! Develop your professional scholarly voice and learn to give effective academic presentations with confidence at Speak Like a Scholar! Open to Master's and PhD students. Apply today!
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/speak-scholar
The WCC will have fewer appointments available over the week of May 24-27 as most of our staff are at the Canadian Writing Centres Association conference this week. Drop-in and evening and weekend appointments are still available.
Clare Bermingham's chapter on "Undoing Happiness with Pleasure: Rhetorics of Affect in The Ladder" is coming out in the new Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric this year.
The English Conversation Circles (ECC) are being held both virtually and in person for the Spring 2022 term. Read more In-person meetings will take place on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Because we have a capacity limit of 15 people for the in-person ECC, we ask that students pre-register and commit to attending all 6 weeks of the program. Students will be admitted to the in-person sessions on a first come, first served basis.
Faculty, instructors, and student groups! Course-integrated Support (CIS) for Spring 2022 is now available. Work with staff at the WCC to create custom writing and communication-related workshops for your students that will support them in your course and throughout their university career. Visit our Course-integrated support webpage for more information about this program.
Do you enjoy great conversations and meeting new people? Then you should join the WCC as an English Conversation Circles volunteer facilitator! Follow the link for more information or to apply.
As campus opens up again, we’ve moved from fully virtual writing cafés to Hybrid Writing Cafés this term. Grad students now have the option to connect with your fellow writers in both a virtual and in- person setting.
Are you a student association leader who is looking to provide engaging workshops or seminars to support your members? Work with the Writing and Communication Centre to build custom support for your student group.
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/support-classes
“It's helped a lot to be able to join a call/chat to virtually work with other graduate students - especially during COVID.” Write together at the Virtual Writing Cafés, 9am-12pm Tuesday and Friday, and 2-4:30 pm Wednesdays on LEARN.
https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/virtual-writing-cafe