Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Time Management Essentials
2018-06-19 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we address the specific time management challenges that graduate students face. Topics covered will include:

Graduate When You Want To

Long-term Planning: Learn how to predict your time to completion and use project management tools to help you meet your goals as a graduate student

School-Life Balance

Learn practical strategies to help you achieve school-work-life balance

Time Management from the Inside Out

Procrastination and perfectionism are common challenges for many graduate students. In In this session, we will identify strategies to modify or decrease unhelpful behaviours

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgement of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.
Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Data Visualization - ggplot Workshop
2018-06-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Ontario, Canada
ggplot lets you create quick, clean and professional-looking visualizations. Come to this workshop and get started creating and customizing charts and graphs.
McLaughlin Library, Room 289

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Outlining Your Thesis + Explaining Your Research Findings
2018-06-19 13:00 - 16:00 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we analyze the common features and structures of the thesis/dissertation and then focus more specifically on the results and discussion sections.

Outlining Your Thesis

This session offers a visual mapping strategy that you can use to organize your research and writing, structure your argument logically, manage your evidence and ultimately create an outline of your entire thesis writing project

Writing Results and Discussion

This session introduces strategies that will help you describe your data and communicate the significance of your research findings

Data Visualization

A picture is worth a thousand words! It is time to explore or explain your research findings through visualizations. This workshop will introduce the data visualization process, examine the strengths and weaknesses of standard chart types, and provide an introduction to how to build these charts using Tableau software.

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgment of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.
Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384
