Workshops & Events

Many classes across disciplines require students to write within the classroom or exam space. This might be for a short-answer quiz, an in-class essay, or a reflective response. This 90-minute workshop will review strategies for in-class writing tasks to ensure students can write with clarity and confidence.

The intended audience for this session is undergraduate students, though all are welcome. No registration is required.

Successful academic writing requires the ability to think critically about the questions you want to ask in your research, the materials you encounter in trying to answer those questions, and the way you incorporate those materials into your own work. This workshop will give students the opportunity to practice asking critical questions to improve their academic research and writing skills.

The intended audience for this session is graduate students, though all are welcome. Registration is available on the Dal GradPD website.

Learn about the different ways words and clauses can be joined into sentences and how to use these different kinds of sentences in your writing. This workshop will also include a discussion of active and passive constructions. 

The intended audience for this session is undergraduate students, though all are welcome. No registration is required.

Strong academic documents are built on strong paragraphs. This session will focus on deconstructing drafts at the paragraph level to rebuild stronger papers. We will focus on developing ideas within the paragraph unit with emphasis on crafting strong topic sentences, developing cohesion and concision, varying sentence structures, and building logical flow and transitions. The workshop will conclude with an independent workshopping activity.

The intended audience for this session is undergraduate students, though all are welcome. No registration is required.

This workshop aimed at undergraduate students identifies the qualities and characteristics of traditional academic writing and offers participants techniques and strategies for finding their own unique academic voice. The workshop will ask participants to reflect on and apply the knowledge presented through a short, independent writing activity. For this, they should bring a paragraph or two of recent academic writing to the session. Participants will leave with tangible resources as well as techniques to further develop and hone their academic voice.

The intended audience for this session is graduate students, though all are welcome. Registration is available on the Dal GradPD website.

A literature review attempts to analyze what scholars have written about a given topic or question. Comprehensively and critically reviewing the literature allows authors to not only situate their own work but to persuade readers that the work is necessary and worthwhile. This workshop will focus on structuring the literature review using writing strategies to summarize and synthesize the literature while maintaining or establishing your own voice. 

The intended audience for this session is graduate students, though all are welcome. Registration is available on the Dal GradPD website.