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Academic Writing Workshops

Free bookable workshops to help you develop your academic writing skills.

 

 

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Upcoming workshops

  • Academic Writing Workshops

    • Writing Clear Sentences: From Simple to Complex

      Starts: 10 Feb 2026, 12:00 pm
      Finishes: 10 Feb 2026, 1:30 pm
      Venue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2
      Remaining places: 19
      This workshop will guide you to create clear, simple sentences, and effective compound and complex ones.

    • Develop your critical and analytical skills [online]

      Starts: 4 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm
      Finishes: 4 Mar 2026, 2:00 pm
      Remaining places: 95
      This workshop will be delivered online. Learn about what critical and analytical skills are and how you can put them into practice in your academic work. Open to any student at any level who is being asked to demonstrate critical analysis in their work.

    • Doing a literature review [Online]

      Starts: 12 Mar 2026, 5:00 pm
      Finishes: 12 Mar 2026, 6:30 pm
      Remaining places: 96
      In this workshop you will develop your literature review skills. We will explore the aims behind a literature review, how to carry out your search, how to critically assess your sources and how to structure your review.

    • Constructing and Deconstructing Arguments [ONLINE]

      Starts: 18 Mar 2026, 5:00 pm
      Finishes: 18 Mar 2026, 6:00 pm
      Remaining places: 37
      This workshop explores the content of academic arguments, examples of good and bad argumentation, and some common logical fallacies.

    • Refresh your referencing skills [Online]

      Starts: 27 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm
      Finishes: 27 Mar 2026, 2:15 pm
      This workshop will cover common referencing errors and how to avoid them in our work. This workshop includes a Q&A section where you can ask specific referencing questions.

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