Request a Writing Workshop or Series to invite an ASC staff to guide students through active learning strategies needed for writing success. Workshops are designed to be student-centered and interactive. Information will be tailored to the unique needs of your students, course, and program upon request. For descriptions and learning outcomes for the workshops, please read below.
Please submit your request at least two weeks before the requested workshop date to allow time to schedule and customize the workshop. If you are not able to submit the workshop in advance, we will do our best to accommodate your request, but we may ask for additional date/time options.
If you have an idea for a workshop that is not listed here, please email writing@rrc.ca to request a workshop created specifically for your class.
This 30-minute workshop provides an overview of writing supports available at the ASC, including how to book writing tutoring appointments and ASC-recommended online learning materials. This presentation is recommended at the beginning of a course or preceding writing assignments.
Learning Outcomes
This workshop focuses on the pre-writing, writing and re-writing stages of academic and professional written communication, including analyzing assignment instructions, scheduling the steps for the writing process, researching, organizing ideas, editing, and referencing.
This workshop can be delivered in a 50-minute format that includes opportunities for student engagement, or it can be delivered as a 2-hour extended workshop. In the 2-hour workshop, students are guided through the writing process to produce a writing sample. Students brainstorm, draft, edit, and peer edit to practice and experience the benefits of the writing process.
Learning Outcomes
This series includes six 30-minute workshops. Staff are welcome to request the whole series or select any number or combination of workshops that would best suit the needs of their students and course. All workshops can be expanded to 50-minute workshops that include a practice activity to give students the opportunity to apply what they've learned.
The workshops in this series are intended to provide students with foundational writing skills that they can apply to their written communication and writing assignments in college.
Series Workshop Descriptions
This 30-minute workshop teaches students how and when to write a professional email. This workshop can be expanded to a 50-minute workshop that includes a practice activity to give students the opportunity to apply the lessons from the workshop.
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This 50-minute workshop teaches students about foundational grammar concepts including types of sentences and sentence clauses, parts of speech, capitalization, and puctuation.
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This 50-minute workshop focuses on introductory APA use for students including the importance of accurate citing, as well as the basics of in-text citations, quotations, paraphrases, references, and formatting. This workshop assumes no prior knowledge of APA or citing. ASC staff can tailor the workshop to help students apply APA to a specific assignment.
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This 50-minute workshop focuses on introductory IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers citation style) use for students including the importance of accurate citing, as well as the basics of in-text citations, quotations, paraphrases, references, and formatting. This workshop assumes no prior knowledge of IEEE or citing. ASC staff can tailor the workshop to help students apply IEEE to a specific assignment.
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This 50-minute workshop provides students with an introduction to persuasive writing and introduces the basics of proposal writing including defining a goal, understanding an audience, identifying a problem and project, and using research.
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This 50-minute workshop covers the basics of research paper structure, objectives, and purpose. It concludes with a case study on reading assignment guidelines, choosing a topic, finding research, and writing a research paper.
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