What’s coming up at SGS’s Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC)
GCAC March Workshops
GCAC will be offering a wide variety of 90-minute workshops in March, each focusing on a specific aspect of academic communication. No advance registration is required, and all members of the University of Toronto community are welcome to attend. Visit our website, where you’ll find descriptions of all our workshops including information on times and locations
Working with Sources (for students in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
March 13 Thinking about Citation and Sources
March 20 Writing Your Sources into Your Work
March 27 Refining Your Use of Sources
Getting Through Graduate Work
March 2 Five Principles to Improve Your Academic Writing
March 9 Becoming a Productive Writer
March 16 Editing Your Work Effectively
March 23 Making the Most of Oral Presentations in the Sciences
March 30 Preparing to Pitch Public Writing
Writing Centre Consultations
One-on-one consultations are available for graduate students who seek individualized assistance with their writing. In these 40-minute sessions, trained instructors work with you to improve your capacity to plan, write, and revise your academic assignments. While our instructors won’t edit for you, they will teach you strategies to revise and edit your own work. The appointments can be booked online two to three weeks in advance.
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