Help with Assignments – The Consultation Service
The Writing Centre offers free 30-minute consultations to help Bishop’s University students with any written assignments and to review their EWP Exams and Write for Success essays.
Where: Online, on the Teams platform.
How: Use the online booking system. Click the “Book a Writing Centre Appointment” button below. Be ready to upload a double-spaced copy of your assignment to Teams.
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.
Book a Writing Centre Appointment
Please note that the Writing Centre is closed over the summer months. EWP exams can be reviewed beginning in late August, and full services resume in the second or third week of September. If you have any questions, please email the coordinator (ewpchair@ubishops.ca).
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
Punctuation Made Easy
- Where to put commas
- Semi-colons & colons
- Apostrophes
- Fixing sentence fragments and comma splices