Workshops for graduate students, researchers, and faculty on writing, argument, and research communication. Offered through the University of Alberta and, on occasion, other institutions.
Academic integrity and AI
- Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
- Building Academic Integrity into Your Writing Practice
- Generative AI for Graduate Writing
- Plagiarism: Getting It Right (so you aren’t wrong)
- AI Workshop: Build a Gemini Chatbot (with Centre for Teaching and Learning; for faculty)
Grant and proposal writing
- Framing and Analyzing Literature in a Grant Proposal
- Getting Ready for Grant Season
- Grant Writing for Tri-Council Applicants
- Inoculating Against Jargonitis in Funding Proposals
- Making a Strong Case for the Significance of Your Research
- Making Your Research Matter: Highlighting Significance and Engaging Your Audience
- Persuasive (Grant) Writing for Graduate Law Students
- Reducing Jargon in Funding Proposals
- SSHRC/NSERC: Empowering Your Grant-Writing Journey
- SSHRC/NSERC: Writing Concisely for Grant Proposals
- SSHRC/NSERC: Writing Strategies for Grant Applications
- Storytelling and Narrative in Research Proposals
- Using Plain Language in Your Research Proposal
- Writing a Funding Proposal for a Non-Specialist Audience
- Writing an Effective Funding Proposal
- Writing Concisely for Grant Proposals
Thesis and publication
- Build a Better Thesis from Start to Finish
- Crafting a Thesis or Dissertation Proposal
- Getting Started on Your Thesis or Dissertation
- Preparing Journal Articles (Digital Humanities)
- Revising a Chapter for Publication
- Revising Journal Articles
Writing process and clarity
- Addressing and Overcoming Writer’s Block and Procrastination
- Characteristics of Effective Writing
- Clarity in Academic Writing I
- Clarity in Academic Writing II
- Editing and Revising Your Documents
- From Stuck to Draft
- How to Write More Convincingly as a Graduate Student
- Improve Clarity in Your Academic Writing
- Overcoming Writer’s Block, Procrastination, and Imposter Syndrome
- Reboot Your Writing
- Shifting Your Thinking about Writing in Graduate School
- The Hard Truth About Paraphrasing
- What Experienced Writers Do
- Writing with Style: Crafting Clear and Concise Sentences
Genre-specific and audience-specific
- Building Better Abstracts for Medical and Scientific Writing
- Scholarship Writing Essentials: Strategies for Success
- Writing about Literature: Navigating Sources with Confidence
- Writing Clinical Notes
- Writing for Planners