Center for Writing staff run classroom workshops covering peer review, thesis statements, collaborative writing, poster presentations, and more. In addition to the workshops listed below, we can work with you to develop workshops tailored to the specific needs of your class.
Workshops
Ways of Inquiry
The Ways of Inquiry workshop is a workshop about invention geared towards research/topic generation and best practices for finding scholarly sources.
Mindsets for Scholarly Writing
How can the growth mindset be applied to the way we approach writing?
High School vs. College Writing
Writing in college differs substantially from writing in high school. This workshop explores some of those differences and introduces students to essential mindsets and strategies for successful academic writing
Peer Review
Revision is key to writing within any discipline. This workshop includes an overview and demonstration of best peer review practices. Center for Writing staff facilitate an in-class peer review session with the support of Writer's Workshop consultants, depending on class size.
Writing with Sources
This workshop covers how to support ideas with evidence and successfully integrate sources into an essay. Center for Writing staff can customize the presentation for your course.
Strengthening Thesis Statements
What is the purpose of a thesis statement? What makes a thesis statement strong? Suitable for any discipline using argument-based/persuasive writing!
Writing Introductions
This workshop addresses the objectives of an introduction, how to narrow the scope down, and common rhetorical moves introductions make.
The M.E.A.L Plan
The M.E.A.L. Plan workshop covers the essentials of paragraphing in academic writing. Students will be introduced to a template that helps them identify main ideas, evidence, analysis, and links/transitions.
Clear and Concise Writing
This workshop covers several common aspects of effective writing style, including concision, information flow, and sentence construction issues, such as active/passive voice. This workshop can be customized to highlight the style topics most relevant to your assignment. Best suited for the revision stage, after students have finalized the ideas and content of their drafts.
Collaborative Writing
This is a great workshop to schedule early in the process of group writing projects you assign. This workshop includes activities and strategies to help students coordinate and manage workflows in a group setting. Center for Writing staff will cover how students can establish clear guidelines and expectations, create and delegate tasks, and resolve conflicts.
Annotated Bibliographies
What is an annotated bibliography? Why write one? This workshop answers these questions and guides students through practicing writing annotations in preparation for research assignments.
Oral Presentations
This workshop prepares students for presentations in an academic setting. This workshop includes how to make effective use of PowerPoints and considerations of accessibility, audiences, and delivery techniques.
Poster Presentations
Students will learn how to recognize and navigate the rhetorical situation of the poster presentation. Through exercises and examples, students learn visual and information design strategies.
How It Works
- Fill out a form on our Ignite page to request a workshop. You can request multiple workshops by filling out the form more than once.
- Our ability to facilitate workshops on the requested dates is subject to our availability and capacity. It's more likely we'll be able to facilitate a workshop when you request it if you do so well in advance of the requested date.
- If this is your first time requesting this workshop, the Center for Writing Director or Associate Director will reach out to set up a meeting (virtual or in-person, at your option) before the workshop. This meeting will help us tailor the workshop to your class and help you to time and scaffold activities/assignments around the workshop.
- Expect to participate and collaborate with Center for Writing staff in the classroom on the day of the workshop.
In addition to these workshops, remember that you can request a Writer's Workshop information session for your class!
Don't see the workshop you need? Email us at centerforwriting@holycross.edu with your questions and suggestions!