Flow is one of the most valued—and least well-defined—qualities in academic writing. This workshop examines sentence-level and sentence-to-sentence strategies for creating clarity, cohesion, and momentum in academic writing. Participants will learn how decisions about information placement and sentence construction can affect how readers process complex ideas, and practice revising sentences and paragraphs for flow. Whatever […]
By popular demand, the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication is excited to launch a new online writing retreat, open to all members of the UBC community. Whether you’re working on a dissertation, research article, proposal, course paper, or any other project, join us online for dedicated, distraction-free writing time in community with others. Structured writing sessions will […]
Academic English is, in many ways, a new language with its own conventions and expectations that all researchers must learn, regardless of our first language. Across disciplines, scholars rely on a recognizable set of expressions to articulate relationships between ideas, indicate the level of certainty in claims, and foreground the significance of their research contributions. […]
The Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication (CWSC) invites current graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to an on-campus day of dedicated, distraction-free writing time. There’s nothing more productive than writing with community. If you’ve been putting off a writing project, or just need focused time to make real progress, this retreat is for you. Whether […]
By popular demand, the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication is excited to launch a new online writing retreat, open to all members of the UBC community. Whether you’re working on a dissertation, research article, proposal, course paper, or any other project, join us online for dedicated, distraction-free writing time in community with others. Structured writing sessions will […]
This workshop is designed for students applying for the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master's (CGRS M). Drawing on evidence-based research about successful grant proposals, the facilitator discusses particular elements of this written academic genre: audience, purpose, knowledge gap, competence claim, structure, style, and more. The workshop includes examples of successful UBC CGRS M research […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
