This workshop will equip you with the skills you need to revise your thesis or dissertation draft and plan to submit and defend it.
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.
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.
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 what makes an effective presentation, help you organize the ideas in your presentation, and give you concrete strategies for delivering that information with confidence.
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 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 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. Bring your laptop with you to get the most out of the hands-on practice session during this workshop.
Writing a dissertation or thesis? Our Rock Your Thesis workshop series puts you on the right path. Balancing talks from support staff across campus with hands-on activities, we guide you through planning, drafting, and revising your thesis or dissertation.
Big presentation coming up? Whether you are giving a conference presentation, a job talk, or defending your dissertation, learn to speak with confidence about your research area at Speak Like a Scholar. Applications close on October 2, 2023.
Writing a dissertation or thesis? Our Rock Your Thesis workshop series puts you on the right path. Balancing talks from support staff across campus with hands-on activities, we guide you through planning, drafting, and revising your thesis or dissertation.