Writing Centre Services

Help with Assignments

The Writing Centre offers free 30-minute consultations to help students with any written assignments and to review their EWP Exam.

Who:

All Bishop’s students

Where:

The Writing Centre in Divinity 10 (Across from the library/gazebo)

How:

Write your name on the sign-up sheet on the bulletin board

When:

Appointments are available from Mondays to Fridays.

What:

Get help with planning, organizing, outlining, sentence structure, grammar, referencing and citations.

Why:

Improve your writing skills, learn helpful writing strategies, cite and reference correctly, and practice for the EWP Exam

Workshops Fall and Winter Semesters

  • Dates and times will be posted during the semester
  • All Workshops are free

September/January

How to Write Letters of Intent for Graduate School applications

  • How to get started
  • What to include
  • Essay structure
  • What to do and not do

October/February

How to Write a Research Paper

  • Finding a focus
  • Writing thesis statements
  • Taking notes and finding resources
  • Organizing your information

How to Plan an Essay

  • Brainstorming
  • Developing your ideas
  • Using examples
  • Making an outline

Punctuation Made Easy

  • Where to put commas
  • Semi-colons & colons
  • Apostrophes
  • Fixing sentence fragments and comma splices