Graduate Writing Resources

EMGSS Thesis Writing Webinar - 29 February 2024

Tips and Tricks to writing your Thesis by Samantha Bovaird, MSc Student, EMGSS VP-Finance 2018-2019

WEBINAR WRAP-UP:

From our thesis-writing webinar held on April 8th, 2020 we’ve put together a list of helpful resources and tools for students to help everyone with their writing. Take a look, try, and see what works for you! 

Are you motivated to write by co-working?
Download the co-working productivity app: https://www.focusmate.com
1. practice Pomodoros,
2. talk over your work with a fresh face and
3. feel motivated by an external person sharing similar goals.

Are you interested in joining a Writing Session?
Try McGill Graphos: Writing sessions (Rise & Write)
https://www.mcgill.ca/graphos/commons/w20riseonline

Are you interested in looking at different thesis structures?
Database of online theses to overview as reference points if you’re struggling to structure or discuss different segments:
https://oatd.org

Do you want to learn how to prepare figures for your thesis?
Figure Making Tool for Academic Purposes: Biorender 
https://biorender.com

Do you want to get a head start to organizing your references?
EndNote Essentials Workshop: Thursday April 9th 2020 & Friday April 17th 2020
https://apps.library.mcgill.ca/workshops-and-tours/view-by-workshop/33

Are you writing a literature review or a Thesis introduction?
Systematic and Scoping Reviews for Health Sciences, Thursday April 30th 2020
https://apps.library.mcgill.ca/workshops-and-tours/view-by-workshop/2994

You submitted your PhD thesis? Looking for something career oriented while you are waiting to defend?
GPS internship fellowships available for doctoral students - Doctoral Internship Program
https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/dip

“History is who we are and why we are the way we are”- David McCullough. 

We are living in a time in history where we have to examine the violence several communities have faced throughout their lives. The Experimental Medicine Graduate Students’ Society (EMGSS), as part of McGill University, acknowledges that the land where our Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference (AMBGC) happens, is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. The Kanien'kehá:ka Nation is a founding nation of the Haudenosaunee/People of the Longhouse (Iroquois) Confederacy which is also comprised of the Seneca, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida Nations. EMGSS honours, respects and recognizes these Nations. We encourage everyone to understand the history of this land. For more information visit the McGill Indigenous Initiatives website.

«L'histoire définit qui nous sommes et pourquoi nous sommes comment nous sommes» - David McCullough.

Nous voulons reconnaître que l’Université McGill est située en territoire autochtone, lequel n’a jamais été cédé. Nous reconnaissons la nation Kanien'kehá: ka comme gardienne des terres et des eaux sur lesquelles nous nous réunissons virtuellemement aujourd'hui. Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal) est historiquement connu comme un lieu de rassemblement pour de nombreuses Premières Nations, et aujourd'hui, une population autochtone diversifiée, ainsi que d'autres peuples, y résident. La Nation Kanien'kehá: ka est une nation fondatrice de la Confédération Haudenosaunee / Iroquois qui comprend également les nations Seneca, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Onondaga et Oneida. C’est dans le respect des liens avec le passé, le présent et l'avenir que nous reconnaissons les relations continues entre les peuples autochtones et autres personnes de la communauté montréalaise. Nous encourageons tout participant présent à mieux connaître l'histoire de cette terre. Pour plus d'informations, visitez le site Web des initiatives autochtones de McGill.