The Graduate Reading and Writing Base-Line workshop series offers strategies for approaching graduate level reading and writing requirements. These workshops are recommended for international students new to the Canadian university experience/expectations, graduate students returning to university after an extended absence, or current students looking for additional strategies to negotiate the graduate school reading/writing workload.

Explore strategies for reading academic texts with the purpose of extracting pertinent information for generating reading notes for writing précis/abstracts and in-class discussions. Focus on critical reading of both technical and theoretical academic texts including: filtering important content and drawing key conclusions and summarizing information; techniques for analyzing/comparing ideas from different articles and developing your argument; techniques for paraphrasing/summarizing texts to distinguish your voice from that of your source; methods to prepare reading notes for active engagement in class discussions and/or writing a précis/abstract, literature review or research essay; and tips for incorporating sources into your research paper outline.

NOTE: Grad Read/Write participation Requirement
To model graduate coursework requirements and create an engaged learning experience, participants will be expected to complete short readings and prepare notes prior to each workshop class date. Participants in the fall/winter/spring sessions will also be expected to produce short written texts for the extra peer review sessions.

Winter 2013 Sessions Dates:
B1- Tues 10h00 - 12h30 - Jan 15, 22 and 29
B2 - Tues 13h30 - 16h00 - Jan 15, 22 and 29

Optional Office hours on Fridays from 11h00 to 12h00


*** The Grad Read/Write series is offered in August as part of the Grad School Base Camp series (GPLL020) - a 3-day intensive workshop with the "Base-Line" reading and writing workshops repeated in the fall and winter semesters.