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POSTPONED Personal Statements: Writing

This workshop draws on research to introduce participants to some of the typical stylistic features of the personal statement, such as personal narrative, identity construction, and self-promotion, and includes dedicated time for participants to revise a statement and receive feedback from the facilitators and other participants. Registration required.

Doctoral Tri-Council Workshop: Writing the Research Proposal

This virtual workshop is for doctoral students applying for Tri-Council funding: CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC. The workshop includes examples of successful UBC Tri-Council proposals, discussions with writer-researchers of the successful UBC proposals, opportunities for one-on-one writing consultations with staff from the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication, and extensive dedicated writing time, facilitated online. Registration is required.

Citing to Communicate: Who, What, When, Where, Why

This workshop aims to demystify the who, what, when, where, and why of citational practices. No matter the citation style they are being asked to engage with, participants will come away from this workshop with a greater understanding of the purpose behind citation, as well as a pragmatic conception of how to apply that understanding in their own academic writing. Registration is required.

Personal Statements: Writing

The personal statement is written for admission to graduate and professional programs at academic institutions like UBC. This workshop draws on research to introduce participants to some of the typical stylistic features of the personal statement, such as personal narrative, identity construction, and self-promotion, and includes dedicated time for participants to revise a statement and receive feedback from the facilitators and other participants. Registration is required.

Using Zotero for Citation Management

If you plan to use Zotero to manage your citations: join us for this workshop. This workshop will quickly cover the setup of Zotero and then take a deeper dive into the best way to use the software to keep all of your citations in order throughout your research. Our Citation Management experts will provide tips and trips to get the most out of Zotero and your citation management tracking process in general. Everyone who is using Zotero or thinks they might like to use Zotero is welcome at this workshop.

Digital Publishing with Scalar

This workshop provides an introduction to Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform. Scalar can be used to create media rich assignments and open, digital books. Participants will learn how to build Scalar pages incorporating multimedia (e.g. video, text, images, sound), annotations, tags, and metadata.