Online Workshops
The Writing Centre hosts a series of online workshops each semester. In the Fall 2025 semester, sessions are Fridays from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.. All our workshops are free to members of the Memorial community - undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff. These workshop presentations are packed with explanations, rules, samples, and short practice opportunities. You may register for these workshops at any point in the semester. After registering, participants will receive a Webex link for the online workshops.
Check out Fall 2025 workshops below. Stay tuned for registration links.
Academic Integrity is fundamental in all academic environments. Student commitment is essential and foundational for success. Learning to respect the integrity of others' work is a game-changer in both academic papers and presentations. In this workshop, participants will examine quotations, citations, and paraphrasing strategies. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
If you are unsure how to approach a prompt or meet its expectations, this online workshop is for you. Learn how to break down a writing prompt to better understand what is being asked before you begin researching, reading, and writing. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
Presenting a well-organized essay is essential for audience comprehension. Such an essay demonstrates writer control, comprehension, and insight. In this workshop, participants explore options to develop introductions and conclusions. As well, they will discuss how to build and connect supporting paragraphs. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
The introduction and conclusion paragraphs are the bookends of an academic essay. Writers need to engage the audience with the introduction, laying the foundation forthe paper, and to close the essay with the conclusion paragraph. The workshop will provide participants with basic guidelines for these paragraphs. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
Engaging with your sources requires students to focus closely on their reading. In this workshop, participants will explore a variety of strategies to use when writing academic responses. Such approaches include quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing. In addition, the workshop will strongly encourage documentation style understanding. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
Join our workshop to learn effective strategies for eliminating wordiness and avoiding irrelevant word choices in academic writing. You'll also be introduced to the Academic Phrasebankâa valuable resource that offers commonly used phrases to help structure and organize your writing clearly and effectively. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
Punctuation is not as simple as most people think. Punctuation marks provide clarity, flow, and precision. In this workshop, participants will explore the impact punctuation can have when we read and write, as it is a silent communication partner. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
Quality paraphrasing is a game-changer. Expressing content in your own words is necessary for all academic environments, papers and presentations. Participants will examine paraphrasing strategies for embedding sources in this workshop to avoid cut-and-paste approaches. They will discuss the value of quoting and in-text citations. This session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points by email. Registration link to follow.
Submitting a written document can be stressful for some writers. Are there organizational errors, grammar errors, mechanical errors, and/or surface errors in your paper? In this workshop, participants will follow a sequence of steps to edit and proofread papers in order to feel confident on the deadline date. The session will be recorded, and all participants will receive a concise summary of the key points via email. Registration link to follow.