I teach workshops for graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professional programs. Most are about writing, but not in the narrow sense of grammar or polish. They are about writing process, professional writing habits, audience, structure, revision, and the working conditions that make academic writing harder than it needs to be.
I do this work through the University of Alberta and, sometimes, with other institutions.
I have taught sessions on academic integrity, plagiarism, generative AI, and how graduate researchers can make better decisions when AI enters the writing process. I have also helped with a faculty workshop on building a Gemini chatbot with the Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Much of my workshop work is with grants and proposals: Tri-Council applications, plain language, significance, literature framing, jargon, non-specialist audiences, and the peculiar art of making a research project sound both possible and worth funding.
I also teach on theses, dissertations, journal articles, revision, writer’s block, procrastination, paraphrasing, sentence clarity, and writing for specific professional audiences, including medical, scientific, clinical, planning, law, and literature contexts.
The through-line is not inspiration. It is helping people understand what kind of writing situation they are in, what professional writing looks like under pressure, and how to keep the work from becoming more punishing than it already is.