Integrating the Writing Centre into your course

The MacEwan University Writing Centre invites faculty and staff to partner with us to provide discipline-specific writing support for your course/program. A few ways the Writing Centre can be integrated into your course are listed below. 

Promotional Class Visits

We welcome requests from faculty who would like to have a Writing Centre staff member make a short in-class presentation about the Writing Centre. We introduce students to our services and resources, show them how to access our spaces in-person and online, and answer any questions that they might have about visiting the Writing Centre. 

Embedded Workshops

Our professional staff welcome requests from faculty and staff who are interested in having a writing specialist customize a workshop for their class or program. Our workshops are available both in-person and online.

Possible workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Academic citation and writing with academic integrity
  • Writing within a discipline
  • Writing specific genres (e.g., research articles, review articles, literature reviews, abstracts, annotated bibliographies, etc.)
  • Writing as a process (e.g., planning a paper, drafting a paper, revision, proofreading and editing)
  • Writing across media (e.g. podcasts, poster presentations)
  • Co-authorship and group writing
  • Giving and receiving peer feedback

In the past, we have provided tailored workshops on many of the above topics to suit the learning objectives of specific courses across the disciplines, such as: 

SOCI 227: Canadian Criminal Justice System

DESN 410: Applied Design Research

EASC 238: Geology of Natural Resources

AGAD 305: Curatorial Studies