Competency: Writing & Communication

Explore options or pursue a career path supported by easy-to-use planning instruments that help you thoughtfully design and track your professional development goals. Eligible trainees can get advising help and resources to proactively problem-solve and set yourself up for success. Registration Required.

If you’re looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books,…

Nature Masterclasses are practical, interactive professional development workshops and courses. The curriculum is designed to provide researchers with strategies to develop their skills, confidence, and careers. Courses include science writing and publishing, focus on peer review, and effective collaboration in research. Register.

Learning to network to advance your career can be a daunting task. This workshop will offer key insights on how to identify career networks, conduct informational interviews, and create a plan to get started on your networking journey. This workshop will be particularly beneficial for those who have attended a…

This online (via Zoom) workshop will focus on basic LaTeX syntax: learning commands, uploading figures, notating mathematical formulas and equations, and generating bibliographies. The workshop will be taught using Overleaf, a collaborative, subscription-based tool licensed by the library. This is an interactive online workshop that is best attended using a laptop or desktop instead…

Spend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome.  The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups. Registration Required.

Spend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome.  The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups. Registration Required.

Spend an hour and learn to use this robust citation manager with Firefox and Chrome.  The workshop covers importing citations, exporting bibliographies into Word and Google Docs, and sharing resources among groups. Registration Required.

Join us for a hands-on planning webinar! We offer our planning webinar at the beginning of each term so that you can take time out of your schedule to identify your personal and professional goals for the summer, create a strategic plan to accomplish them, and identify the types…

Many academics dream of sharing their research and expertise beyond the ivory tower, on media outlets such as the New York Times and NPR. However, the transition from academic to public writing can be intimidating for a variety of reasons–unfamiliarity with journalistic conventions, fear of being dismissed for making…

Are you sick of working all the time without making progress on your writing projects? Are you tired of your deadline-driven, binge-and-bust writing routine? Do you wish you could develop a healthy, consistent, daily writing routine that would allow you to meet your department’s expectations for tenure and promotion? In…

In this webinar, you will learn about the importance of peer reviewing for dismantling the Western canon and democratizing knowledge, as well as strategies you can use to engage in more inclusive peer reviewing practices.

Do you often start the semester or term with high hopes for your writing projects, but end disappointed by your actual productivity? Do you desperately want (or need) to write a lot this semester? Do you want to figure out how to be more productive AND enjoy your life this…

GRAD SLAM INFO SESSION/WORKSHOP ***ALL DISCIPLINES WELCOME*** Presented by: GradProDATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 18 TIME: 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. This workshop is intended to walk students who are interested in participating in the 2024 Grad Slam competition through the process of brainstorming a pitch, learning how to develop an…

GRAD SLAM INFO SESSION/WORKSHOP ***ALL DISCIPLINES WELCOME*** Presented by: GradProDATE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 TIME: 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. This workshop is intended to walk students who are interested in participating in the 2024 Grad Slam competition through the process of brainstorming a pitch, learning how to develop an…

This workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data, explore and visualize data, and…