Writing Workshops

The Writing Center offers writing-related workshops and presentations on a variety of topics. Workshops can be customized to time, subject and assignment needs, and can be tailored to teaching style, classroom space or size, or any other preferences. Preview workshop materials below.

Writing Process Workshops

Getting Started

This workshop introduces or reinforces strategies for getting started with a writing assignment or project.

Thesis Statements and Essay Structure

This workshop provides strategies for understanding different rhetorical situations, crafting and revising thesis statements, effectively organizing paragraphs, and planning a cohesive and well-crafted essay.

Evaluating Sources

This workshop is an interactive class session that highlights a framework of criteria for evaluating sources for use in research papers. 

Incorporating Sources

This workshop goes over strategies for ethically, accurately, and effectively incorporating sources into academic writing.

Peer Reviewing Workshop

Need help reinforcing constructive peer review practices in your class? The Writing Center has extensive resources, from sending tutors to help with peer reviews, to a peer review handout, to a presentation on the purpose, procedure, and etiquette of peer reviewing.

Revising and Editing Strategies

This workshop introduces and reinforces revision strategies, including large-scale content and thesis revisions and small-scale sentence-level usage and mechanics revisions.

Research Guide and Citation Style Workshops 

Nursing and Health Sciences

APA Style Basics

This workshop introduces or reinforces the basics of APA style and citation format, paper formatting guidelines, language and style, in-text citations and reference entries. It includes a “quick-guide” to using the electronic library resources for research. We can provide support time for students as they search for sources and/or work on paper formatting.

MLA Style Basics

This workshop introduces or reinforces the basics of MLA style and citation format, paper formatting guidelines, language and style, in-text citations and works cited entries. It includes a “quick-guide” to using the electronic library resources for research. We can provide support for students as they search for sources and/or work on paper formatting.

Subject-Specific Writing Workshops

What Makes Business Writing Different?