For workshop descriptions, dates, and times, scroll down on this page. All workshops except Research 101 and Finding and Evaluating Sources are held in the University Writing Center, 209 Pray-Harrold, and last one hour.
will be held in G07C Halle Library. The Feb. 6 workshop will be in G07A Halle; the Feb. 16 workshop will be held in the University Writing Center, 209 Pray-Harrold; the February 21 workshop will be in G07B Halle.
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General Writing Workshops
Using Your Writing Handbook
You have a handbook for your course, but what can it do for you and what can you do with it? This workshop will help you make the most of your writing handbook to learn about everything from how to cite sources, to learning the rules of punctuation, to working on document design.
(Weeks of January 14, 22, 29)
Managing Your Writing Time
Feeling overwhelmed by all of your assignments? This workshop will help you learn how to set writing and research goals, block off time in your schedule, and make a semester-long plan so that you feel on top of the course and invested in the writing.
(Weeks of January 14 and 21)
Writing Ethically About Controversial Topics
All writers have positions that they need to recognize. This workshop will help you to consider your positioning as a researcher and to consider how you present your material.
(Weeks of January 21, 28, February 4, 11)
Reflecting on Your Writing - NEW WORKSHOP!
Reflecting on your writing is an important step in the writing process. It can help with generating new ideas, incorporating sources, organizing, and/or revising your writing. This workshop will help you develop strategies for effective reflection to improve your writing. (Weeks of March 24, 31, April 7, 14)
Researched Writing Workshops
Research (and writing) as a Process
Avoid boring topics and tap into your own curiosities! This workshop will help you develop questions that will lead you to want to learn more about your topic. By the end of your workshop you'll have strategies to pursue your question and motivation to learn more about your interests.
(Weeks of January 14, 22)
Conducting Observations
Research isn't just the library. This workshop will introduce strategies for conducting observations and doing other forms of people-oriented research and capturing what you see in research notes.
(Weeks of January 14, 21, 28)
Research 101
in Halle Library, G07B (except 2/20, in G07A); offered jointly by the UWC and Halle Library
Need to find sources in Halle Library? This workshop will help you move from the research question you've identified to developing keywords, identifying appropriate library databases for your research, and using those databases to identify and locate appropriate sources.
(Weeks of January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, March 3)
Finding and Evaluating Research Sources
in Halle Library, G07C (except 2/6, in G07A; 2/16, in the University Writing Center, 209 Pray-Harrold; and 2/21, in G07B); offered jointly by the UWC and Halle Library
The library is big and time is short. How can you make sense of what's there? This workshop will help you identify sources relevant to your topic, decide which sources are appropriate, and organize your research activities so you can get the most from your efforts. You'll also learn why researchers cite their sources using citational formats like APA and MLA.
(Weeks of January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, March 3)
Reading Critically
Do you feel like you have to read the same page over and over again? This workshop will help you develop strategies for getting what you need to out of reading, whether it's for a research paper or a lab report.
(Weeks of January 21, 28, February 4)
Connecting Your Ideas to Those of Others
They're your ideas, sure -- but they've been informed by reading, research, and perhaps observation. Now it's time to put them all together in a research essay or other written document. This workshop will help you connect your ideas to the ideas of others, and doing so within the format that you need to use for your writing.
(Weeks of February 11, 18, March 3)
Citational Practices/How to Use a Handbook (off-line or on-line)
Can't figure out how to document your sources? This workshop will help you identify off- and on-line resources for citational systems such as APA or MLA and use them to document sources in your writing.
(Weeks of January 28, February 4, 11)
Avoiding "Plagiarism": Using Sources Ethically and Appropriately
Sometimes writers struggle to give credit where credit is due. This workshop will help you manage the challenges of using sources and giving appropriate credit to the words and ideas of others.
(Weeks of January 28, February 4, 11, 18, March 3, 10)
Creating Multigenre Essays - NEW WORKSHOP!
Good multigenre essays have clearly identified audiences, terrific genres that synthesize library research, interviews, and observation, well-done reflective essays, and careful connections between all of their components. This workshop will help you develop strategies for creating a great multigenre essay for your writing class. (Weeks of March 10, 17, 24, 31, April 7)
Revision and Reflection Workshops
Peer Review, Feedback, and Reflection
Writers don't work alone. This workshop will help you develop strategies for giving constructive feedback on research essays and other writing, and help you use the feedback that you receive effectively.
(Weeks of January 28, February 4, 11, 18)
Revising Your Writing
Get ready for this multi-step revision process that will help you to organize, evaluate, and strengthen your writing. This workshop will help you to revisit your essays with the eyes of a writer, reader, and editor - making revision much less intimidating!
(Weeks of March 3, 10, 17, 31, April 7, 14)
Organizing and Structuring Your Writing
Good writing helps readers make sense of what's there. Organizing and structuring is one way to help readers get your ideas. This workshop will help you find patterns and meaningful ways to organize and structure your writing.
(Weeks of February 3, 11, 18, March 3, 10, 17)
Genre Conventions
All writing has conventions, or rules, and "good writing" meets readers' expectations. Genre conventions help structure those expectations. This workshop will help you analyze the conventions of the genres that you're producing, and apply strategies to develop those conventions in your writing.
(Weeks of March 3, 10, 17, 31)
Sentence Infrastructure and Polishing Your Work
Want your writing to look more polished? This workshop will help develop strategies to edit your writing for surface conventions and punctuation to create polished academic writing.
(Weeks of February 4, 11, 18, March 3, 10, 17, 31, April 7, 14)
Creating a Portfolio for Your Writing Class - NEW WORKSHOP!
It's the end of the term, and you need to put together a portfolio for your writing class. Are you wondering what to include? How it will be assessed? What you can do? This workshop will help you understand how your English 120 or 121 portfolio will be graded, and what you can to do to make it all that you can. (Weeks of April 7 and 14)
Writing in the Disciplines Workshops
What is Scientific Writing?
What makes a scientific article? In this workshop we'll look at the conventions of scientific writing specifically for journals and other juried publications. You'll learn to identify a piece of scientific writing at a glance, name the components of scientific writing, and where to focus your attention of scientific articles. This workshop will help you become a smart reader of scientific writing.
(Weeks of January 14, 21)
Source Viability in the Sciences
How should you read scientific articles for the purpose of incorporating them into your writing? This workshop will help you develop strategies to discover sources that are applicable, credible, and useful for supporting your scientific analysis.
(Weeks of February 4, 11, 18)
Revising Your Scientific Writing
Good science writers realize that writing is a continuous process that can always be improved upon. This workshop will help you develop strategies for revising your scientific writing into polished pieces that are credible, viable, and accurate.
(Weeks of March 3, 10, 17)
Presenting Your SCIENTIFIC Research Findings
Need to present the findings from your scientific research? This workshop will help you effectively create and present effective presentations in the natural sciences. Dates coming soon!
Descriptive and Concise Writing for Record Keeping
Social workers and social service professionals face the challenge of needing to write descriptively, but do so in very little space. In this workshop we'll focus on writing descriptively, and then on taking that rich description and making it concise and to the point.
(Week of January 14)
Effective Peer Review for the Social Service Professions
Social service professionals don't write alone. In this workshop, writers of social service documents such as forms and evaluations will develop strategies to provide effective feedback to one another.
(Week of January 21, 28)
Genre Conventions for Social Service Professions
What makes good writing for the social service professionals? In this workshop we'll look at similarities and differences between writing for social service professions and papers in social service classes. Students will learn to identify at the components of academic articles in the social services and forms used for social service professions, look at conventions of usage in both genres, and consider applying these conventions to writing in social service professions.
(Weeks of January 28, February 4, 11)
Interpretive Writing for Social Service Professions
Writing for social services requires professionals to summarize important concepts and use professional judgment to form recommendations. This workshop will help social service writers create effective summaries and recommendations.
(Weeks of February 4, 11)
