The Academic Success Centre offered a seven-part online workshop series during the Fall 2023 term called Building Your Writing Foundation. This series includes seven sessions that will equip students with foundational writing skills for college success.
Read below for workshop topics and descriptions.
Workshop recordings, tip sheets and practice activities for each of the seven workshop topics are now available.
RRC Polytech students are welcome to submit their practice activities to writing@rrc.ca for feedback. Please add “BYWF” in the subject line.
Questions? Contact writing@rrc.ca.
What does a professional email look like? When should I send one?
Description: Join this workshop to learn all about professional emails: when to send them, what they look like and sound like, how to structure them, and how to write with a professional tone.
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How do I support a claim? What even is a claim?
Description: Join this workshop to learn what a claim is, how to strengthen your claims with reasons, and how to back them up with evidence. Learn how to provide evidence with both personal experience and research.
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What does it mean to reflect? How can I write about what I've learned?
Join this workshop to learn what reflective writing is and how to spot a reflective writing assignment. Learn a reflective writing structure you can use in your assignments and see it in action with a discussion board post example.
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How should I organize my ideas in a paragraph?
Description: Join this workshop to learn how to organize big ideas and details into a clear paragraph. The paragraph structure you will learn can be applied to all types of academic writing assignments, including summaries, reflections, discussion posts, essays, reports, and more.
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How can I reduce a text to only the main idea?
Description: Join this workshop to learn what summaries should and should not include. Learn how to write a summary that accurately expresses the main idea of a text.
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How do I use other writers' ideas in my writing?
Description: Join this workshop to learn how to write another person's ideas in your own words and how to incorporate into your writing. Learn a five-step process to paraphrase effectively.
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What is APA citation style? Where can I find information to use APA accurately?
Description: Join this workshop to learn the basics of why and how the APA citation style is used in many academic assignments. Then, learn how to use online resources to become confident in creating in-text citations and references in the APA 7th edition citation style.
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