Workshops for Your Classes
In-Class Workshops
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It Takes Time to Fill Workshop Requests
- Please submit a request, including a preferred phone and alternate dates/times, and we will contact you to see what might work.
- Please allow us up to 48 hours to respond to your request and understand that it may take longer than that to schedule.
- Please note we begin responding to workshop requests during the first week of classes each semester (after faculty and staff return from break). Thank you for your patience and understanding.
What to Expect
- 45-Minute Workshops
- While we don't customize, you're welcome to supplement with additional content before/after our workshops.
- Student Engagement
- Please let your students know they will be expected to 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
- Please allow us up to 48 hours to respond to your request and understand that it may take longer than that to schedule.
Beginning Essay Writing
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.
Academic Essay Writing
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.
Science Writing
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.
Build a Better Relationship with Writing
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 a positive writing experience. Participants will also have the opportunity to build a writing community by signing up to join a writing group.
Style Guide Workshops | Description |
|---|---|
APA 1 | Designed for those new to APA and citation style guidelines |
APA 2 | 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 |
MLA 1, 9th ed. | Designed for those new to MLA and citation style guidelines |
Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian | Designed for those new to the Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian |