The School of Graduate Studies and Department of ESL offer free workshops for Memorial University graduate students. These non-credit workshops are offered to registered students in graduate diploma, master’s, or doctoral programs at Memorial and designed to help you improve your speaking and writing skills for a variety of contexts.

For the Spring 2020 semester, writing skills workshops will be held from 9 - 11 am and speaking skills workshops will be held from 3 - 5 pm on the days listed below. All workshops will be held online. Participants will be forwarded a connection link prior to each workshop.

To register, please click on the workshop link below. We ask that you only register for a workshop if you can and will attend.

Writing Skills Workshops:

Punctuation
Date and Time: Monday, May 25, 9 - 11 am
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Citing Sources & Using Tenses Appropriately
Date and Time: Monday, June 1, 9 - 11 am
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Effective Paraphrasing & Summarizing
Date and Time: Thursday, June 4, 9 - 11 am
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Development of Ideas
Date and Time: Monday, June 8, 9 - 11 am
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Digital Communication
Date and Time: Monday, June 15, 9 - 11 am
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Speaking Skills Workshops:

Group Discussions & Conversational Turn-Taking
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 27, 3 - 5 pm
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Non-Academic Speaking & Small Talk
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 3, 3 - 5 pm
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Non-Verbal Elements of Speech
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 10, 3 - 5 pm
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Nuances of Asking Questions
Date and Time: Thursday, June 11, 3 - 5 pm
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

Presentation Skills
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 17, 3 - 5 pm
Mode: Online
REGISTER HERE

If you have any questions about these workshops or other English language training supports for graduate students, please contact Andrew Kim at akim@mun.ca.