Workshops for Your Classes

In-Class Workshops

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What to Expect

  • 45-Minute Workshops: While we cannot always extend or cut down workshops, we encourage you to supplement before and/or after to help students apply concepts and skills to your course content.
     
  • Student Engagement: Please let your students know they will be expected to respond to questions and participate. If you assign a style guide or handbook, please ask your students to have it ready to use in the workshop.
     
  • Workshop Requests Take Time to Fill: After you submit your request, including preferred phone and alternate dates/times, please allow up to 48 hours to respond. If the request is outside our regular operating hours, it may take longer to schedule. We begin responding to workshop requests during the first week of classes each semester (after faculty and staff return from breaks). Thank you for your patience and understanding.
     
  • Did You Know? We also offer workshops and weekly writing groups, and we can provide proof of visitation for any students who attend. You can also schedule a tour just for your class!

General Workshops

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  • Description: Designed with English 1300 & 1310 in mind, this workshop is intended for writers who do not need to focus on citing sources but do need to think about audience, purpose, theses, and development.

  • Description: Designed for those beginning to use sources and understanding their work as part of larger conversations. This is especially useful for English 1320, sophomore courses, and those who are beginning scholarly endeavors.

  • Description: Designed for those beginning to write in the sciences. This introduces students to scientific voice and writing style as well as basic IMRAD organization and citations.

  • Description: This workshop combines reflection activities with practical strategies to increase your confidence as a writer and improve your writing productivity. The session will challenge common writing myths and address typical pitfalls that often hold writers back such as waiting for inspiration, “binge writing,” all-or-nothing thinking, and more. Participants will identify their own attitudes and beliefs about writing; learn techniques to shift their writing mindset; and practice exercises to build writing stamina and promote more positive writing experiences. Students will also have the opportunity to build a writing community by signing up to join a writing group.

  • Description: This workshop introduces students to the literature review, an essential part of research writing in any discipline. Students will learn the various purposes of a literature review; techniques for efficient and effective reading; strategies for synthesizing sources to avoid encyclopedic writing; and options for organization and structure. Students will leave prepared to write a literature review that justifies their research question and creates space for their contribution to the scholarly conversation. Please note: This workshop will focus primarily on understanding the literature review as a genre and using writing as a tool for thinking throughout the research process, rather than on critical library research skills (e.g., locating databases, using Boolean operators).

  • Description: This workshop introduces students to essential strategies for revising and editing their drafts. Students will practice concrete skills to transform their writing, such as using a reverse outline to check for global coherence and applying the “old-new” principle to improve logical flow from sentence to sentence. The workshop will also distinguish between revision, editing, and proofreading, and help participants use that knowledge to prioritize their writing tasks. 

Style Guide Workshops

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  • Description: Designed for those new to APA and citation style guidelines

  • Description: Designed for those with some APA experience in upper division courses and writers whose work focuses more fully on learning to converse with people in the discipline.

  • Description: Designed for those new to MLA and citation style guidelines.

  • Description: Designed for those new to the Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian.