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Writing Workshops for Students

Writing Services offers a variety of out-of-class workshops for students. Register for a workshop on the Student Success Portal to learn more about APA citations and references, paraphrasing, grammar, essay structure, and more!

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Citing and Referencing Your Work

Description

In this 60-minute hands-on workshop, students will explore the concept of plagiarism and how to use APA @ Conestoga to maintain academic integrity. They will learn what citations are, why citations are important, and how to properly create and integrate citations into their assignments.

Outcomes

  • Describe why citing and referencing are important
  • Use the APA@Conestoga guide
  • Create citations and references for books, websites, and journal articles

Grammar 101

Description:

In this 60-minute hands-on workshop, students will explore how to conquer sentence fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. Together, we will demystify how nouns, verbs, and conjunctions work together to create simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Outcomes

  • Understand subject-verb agreement
  • Correct sentence fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences

Developing Your Paper

Description

In this 60-minute workshop, students will explore how to effectively structure introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs. They will explore how to use and analyze evidence in papers. They will also consider the value of paraphrasing. Students will come away from this workshop with a clearer understanding of how to utilize and comment on research.

Outcomes

  • Explore strategies for analyzing evidence
  • Learn to effectively paraphrase evidence 
  • Develop stronger critical thinking skills

Revising Your Paper

Description

In this 60-minute workshop, students will learn about the various steps for editing and proofreading a paper. They will apply strategies to address various higher and lower-order concerns to gain a better understanding of how to revise their own writing.

Outcomes

  • Revise overall writing and paragraph structure
  • Clearly show connections between sentences and ideas
  • Reduce wordiness and unnecessary repetition
  • Choose effective editing and proofreading strategies