Procrastination Awareness Week - March 4-8

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Work on your academic to-do lists alongside students from across the country

Workshops, study halls, and social events

During National Procrastination Week, staff from across Canada are coming together to offer a week of workshops, study halls, and social events to university and college students in 6 of the country's 10 provinces!

Procrastination Awareness Week programming is focused on supporting students to make progress on their end-of-term to do lists and raising general awareness about managing procrastination. You might be surprised to find what a difference it makes to work alongside others, even when we are all online!

Keynote Address by Dr. Joel Heng Hartse on Monday March 4th at 9am:

Write While you Read: An Approach to Avoiding Procrastination and Plagiarism

I often hear this from students: "I'm almost done writing my paper, I just haven't added my sources yet." Working with sources is a crucial component of academic writing, but the lines between paraphrasing and plagiarism can be unintentionally blurred by this approach to cut-and-pasting excerpts from source texts into your drafts, then adding quotation marks, citations, and a bibliography at the very end of the writing process. This presentation will look at how procrastination and plagiarism (intentional or not) can go hand-in-hand and reinforce one another, and provide practical tips for how to break out of this procrastination-plagiarism cycle. In particular, I will explain and advocate for the approach of “writing while you read" as well as using what the website Plagiarism Today calls a "writing cleanroom" to keep quotes and original writing separate. This approach involves responding in your own words to texts as you read them, and supports you to build reading comprehension and paraphrasing skills and stop leaving quoting, attribution, and citation to the last minute.

Dates and times

Programming runs from Monday March 4-Friday March 8, every day 9am-2pm PST (with some bonus pre- and post-event programming on some days as well). Attend what you want, when you want, with no obligation to participate throughout the week.

Who can join 

All students from the participating universities and colleges  - including SFU - are warmly encouraged to join.

Date(s)
March 4-8
Time
9-2pm each day (Pacific), with some bonus pre and post programming
Location
Online
Registration information

Register for free.

Registration gives you full access to come and go throughout the entire week of programming. 

Sponsors
Learning Specialists' Association of Canada (LSAC)
Contact for further information
learning-commons@sfu.ca