The Academic Success Centre is offering a five-part online workshop series during the fall 2025 term called Building Your Writing Foundation. This series includes five sessions that will equip students with foundational writing skills for college success.
Read below for workshop dates, topics, descriptions, and meeting links. Each session has a unique Teams link. No registration is required.
If you plan to attend a workshop and require accommodations, please email us: writing@rrc.ca.
Workshop recordings, tip sheets and practice activities will be posted below once workshop dates have passed.
Opportunity for Writing Feedback
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.
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.
Date: Thursday, September 11th from 12:15-12:45pm (Click here to join the Writing Paragraphs workshop in Teams.)
What does 'claim + evidence' mean? How can I prove my point in my writing?
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.
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.
Date: Thursday, September 25th from 12:15-12:45pm (Click here to join the Summarizing workshop in Teams.)
How do I use other writers' ideas in my writing?
Description: Join this workshop to learn how paraphrasing is much more than avoiding plagiarism or writing something in your own words. Learn why we paraphrase and strategies to help you become a confident paraphraser.
Date: Thursday, October 2nd from 12:15-12:45pm (Click here to join the Paraphrasing workshop in Teams.)
What does it mean to 'reflect'? How can I write about what I've learned?
Description: 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.
Date: Thursday, October 9th from 12:15-12:45pm (Click here to join the Writing Reflections workshop in Teams.)
