Essay Writing Workshop

• The paper is the standard means by which critical thinking is evaluated -- and critical thinking is, by its nature, difficult.
• Since the paper is the standard means of communication in the university environment, you will be marked not only on content, but also on your adherence to the standards of presentation that have been established for the discipline.
• Often, little useful guidance or constructive feedback is provided to help you learn strategies that will lead to successful essay writing.
• The "one chance" paper is not optimal for mastery, since there is no opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
• The low frequency of writing assignments does not provide sufficient opportunities for practice.

Because essay writing is such a complex activity, we can hardly hope to turn you into an excellent writer in a short workshop. In the Learning Skills Essay Writing Workshop, we provide an introduction to essay writing resources on campus, and an overview of the Learning Skills resources and our approach to the essay writing process. We also present a number of strategies for the different stages of essay writing, to help you decide how to approach the assignment, how to research the topic, how to think critically about your material, and how to organize and write the finished essay.

The workshop is one and half hours long, and is free.

A Learning Skills Counsellor will facilitate the workshop.

If the Group or Workshop is not already scheduled
If we have sufficient interest in this group we will offer it as possible. To show your interest, please come to the Counselling Services and fill our a timetable to show us when you would be available.

Schedule
Please check the events page to see if a group is scheduled.