Kick off the winter semester with clarity and purpose! START Skills: Planning Your Term & Goal Setting is a workshop designed to help you set clear, actionable goals for the semester and create a plan to stay on track. Whether you're aiming for personal growth, academic success, or a balance between school and life, this

This session offers strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, and revising research articles in the sciences. We will explore the key components of the Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. We will also provide a mapping tool that writers can use to organize their own scientific research articles.

Let’s have fun with grammar and style! In this session, we first delve into the grammatical structure of the sentence and ways to avoid errors. After that, we explore strategies for incorporating different sentence types to make your writing interesting and impactful. This session will benefit anyone (from any level of study and language background)

Want to start your sinter semester off strong? Join the START Team and the Library for START Skills: Effective Reading and Note Taking! In this workshop, you will learn tips and tricks to read your course readings and take good lecture notes more effectively. You will also get a chance to meet some of our upper-year student

Ready to refresh your wardrobe—for free? Drop in anytime between 12 – 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15, at the Art Gallery of Guelph for a curated clothing swap hosted by Drop and Cop, a University of Guelph student-led club that promotes a circular economy. Bring your clean, gently used items and earn credits to

We will focus on specific strategies and techniques that writers can use to strengthen cohesion, concision, and clarity. We recommend that participants bring an example of their own scientific writing to the workshop (e.g., draft of a research article, lab report, critical review of a scientific research article). However, instructors can provide an example text

Registration opens 4 weeks before the event. In this virtual session, we will use Qualtrics, our online survey software, to explore the fundamentals of survey creation. We will explore: How to create a Qualtrics account How to find and use Qualtrics tutorials and training How to create a basic Qualtrics survey How to access your

This workshop will explore the more advanced question types and features of Qualtrics including: Various question types and methods like logic, piped text, loop & merge, timed questions, scoring, embedded data, and randomization How to use Survey Flow to meet complicated research designs How to create and edit messaging in your survey NOTE: It is

On this leg of your adventure, you’ll unlock the power of data documentation. Learn how to create metadata and various types of data documentation files to ensure your data is understandable and reusable by future researchers and by you down the road. Designed for researchers at the beginning of a project, though open to all,

Join us to explore the workings of paragraphs and papers! In this session, we examine common rules of structure underpinning academic English texts. This is followed by an exploration of cohesion and flow from a style perspective. This session will benefit anyone (from any level of study and language background) who wants to improve their

Feeling like you have too much to read and not enough time? Join this workshop to develop skills for reading journal articles more efficiently and effectively. This workshop is best suited to graduate students and upper year undergradaute students. Questions? Email learning@uoguelph.ca.

Do you speak English as an additional language? Would you like to meet new people while practicing your reading, writing, and speaking skills in English? Please join us for Read, Write, Talk! This workshop series includes readings and recordings on fascinating topics. You will expand your language skills while connecting with peers and having fun.

Set yourself up for success by scoping your research project with succinct and realistic research questions. For more information about this workshop series, please visit our writing, learning, and research skills workshops page.

Prepare for a successful research adventure by creating a comprehensive Data Management Plan (DMP). This session will guide you through developing a living planning document that ensures your data is well-managed, from collection to sharing. Designed for researchers at the beginning of a project, though open to all, this session will help you: Understand what

This 6-week in-person program provides support for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and visiting scholars who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). You will learn and practice various oral communication skills and strategies in academic/professional settings. Each session will be dedicated to a specific topic and will run for approximately 80 minutes. Please

Establish a roadmap for your thesis and make the most of your writing time by creating an outline. In this session, students will explore different options for structuring their theses and access resources for organizing their projects. For more information about this workshop series, please visit our writing, learning, and research skills workshops page.

In this short workshop we will discuss strategies for managing your time and your tasks. We will also share strategies to help keep yourself on track. All grad students and upper year undergrads are welcome, whether you are working on a research paper, MRP for your program, or a dissertation. This workshop is best suited

In this workshop we will learn how to navigate ArcGIS Online, kinds of GIS data, how to add data to a map, basic symbology and labelling, how to manually add data to your map, and how to access analysis functions. ArcGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS); a software program for working with maps and

Looking for a statistics tune-up using SPSS? Come to the fourth workshop in our 11-part series to teach you the basics! In SPSS micro 4: Correlation, you will learn the data type required for the test, check the assumptions for the test, and conduct both a Pearson and a Spearman correlation! Prior knowledge of SPSS

Do you speak English as an additional language? Would you like to meet new people while practicing your reading, writing, and speaking skills in English? Please join us for Read, Write, Talk! This workshop series includes readings and recordings on fascinating topics. You will expand your language skills while connecting with peers and having fun.

This session will discuss how to connect the literature review to your research question, build the structure for your review, and avoid some of the common traps when writing. For more information about this workshop series, please visit our writing, learning, and research skills workshops page.