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GPLL24 - Effective Reading Strategies

Section 1

June 27, 2018, 10:30 - 12:30, Wed

GPWL907 - Everything You Need to Know about Healthy Nutrition

Section 1

June 27, 2018, 13:00 - 14:30, Wed

Section 1

September 7, 2018, 13:00 - 14:30, Fri

GPLL51 - Perfecting the Paragraph

Section 1

June 28, 2018, 10:00 - 12:00, Thu

Before you can write a successful paper, literature review, thesis or any other academic work, you have to perfect the paragraph. Learning the strategies for creating cohesive ideas, impactful statements and a logical flow is crucial to any academic writing career. Applicable to graduate-level writers of all backgrounds, the Perfecting the Paragraph workshop aims to provide participants with an understanding of the most common mistakes that lead to unconvincing, unclear writing. Taking the paragraph as an “idea” unit, it considers the formulation and purpose of the topic sentence. It then focuses on paragraph structure, development of that idea, transition to the next paragraph, punctuation, style and vocabulary. Plenty of practical examples are given to provide students with an opportunity to practice identifying and fixing these problems themselves. ***Each participant is asked to bring a sample of their writing for review in small groups. In this supportive environment, participants receive multiple viewpoints from fellow graduate students who are motivated to improve the writing of their peers as a part of their own learning process.*** ~~~ This workshop will help participants: 1. Understand how to effectively structure paragraphs 2. Create a logical and easy-to-follow flow in their writing 3. Produce compelling sentences through a careful choice of grammatical forms and vocabulary 4. Practice giving and receiving feedback ~~~ This workshop is led by Anja Novkovic, GradProSkills team member for 2017-2018. Anja graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology in 2012. Upon graduation, she focused her energy on storytelling—spoken word poetry performance and personal story collection as an affiliate researcher of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. She began her Master of Science in Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies in 2016, with a desire to uncover the intimate construction of public spaces. Her thesis work centres on the collection and exposure of personal stories from a downtown Montreal alleyway through mapping and installation art.

GPDI513 - Beginner's Guide to Python Programming Language

Section 1

June 28 - July 5, 2018, 13:30 - 16:00, Thu