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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 90-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

  • Be able to use APA @ Conestoga to maintain Academic Integrity
  • Examine expectations for including evidence, in-text citations, and references

Grammar 101

Description:

In this 90-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
  • Proofread for sentence-level grammatical errors using Grammarly

Developing Your Paper

Description

In this 90-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 90-minute workshop, students will learn about the various steps for editing and proofreading a paper. They will also apply strategies to address various higher and lower-order concerns to gain a better understanding of how to revise their own work.

Outcomes

  • Identify the steps of the revision process
  • Explore various revision strategies