Director and Graphos Coordinator
Yvonne Hung
McGill Writing Centre
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Yvonne Hung was brought in as an Academic Associate to oversee Graphos, the McGill Writing Centre’s graduate-focused communication program. Since 2015, she has been responsible for developing and coordinating credit courses on written and oral communication and designing or delivering workshops, writing retreats, peer writing groups, and other writing support. Her work is informed by her training in writing pedagogy, including WAC/WID, during her doctoral studies in Environmental Psychology and her previous experience in research, evaluation, training and development in New York City, Berlin, and Los Angeles.
Since joining the Writing Centre, Dr. Hung has been an invited speaker on the topic of “Engaged Science” at the 2016 Canadian Association for Neuroscience, a co-organizer of a panel for ACFAS in 2017 called “Produire et partager le savoir en français : situation actuelle, enjeux et défis” and a speaker at a 2020 “Careers in Higher Education” panel organized by McGill’s Career Planning Service. In addition to developing disciplinary-focused graduate courses for the Faculty of Law, the Food Science department, and the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, she also regularly teaches writing workshops on thesis writing, preparing a literature review, titles and abstracts, and fellowship writing. Over the last several years, Dr. Hung has also collaborated with Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies to prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to write competitive fellowship applications and created publication writing support for faculty and clinical researchers at the Ingram School of Nursing.
Service/Committees:
MWC Advisory Committee
Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network (McGill chapter-Canadian Association for Graduate Studies)
LIC Intensive and Online Programs Committee (School of Continuing Studies)
Quebec Autism Research Training Program (Transforming Autism Care Consortium)
Recent publications:
- Worried you’ve been ‘out of school’ too long to succeed in graduate school? (August 2020)
- Canada vs. the U.S.: where should you attend grad school? (July 2019)
Dr. Hung coordinates these courses:
WCOM 642 Cornerstones of Academic Writing (1 credit)
WCOM 652 Fundamentals of Academic Presentations (1 credit)
WCOM 661 Literature Review 1: Summary and Critique (1 credit)
WCOM 662 Literature Review 2: Establishing Scholarly Niches (1 credit)
WCOM 671 Selected Topics in Communication 1 (1 credit)
WCOM 672 Selected Topics in Communication 2 (1 credit)
WCOM 676 Thesis Writing Lab (1 credit)
LAWG 601 Communication 1 (1.5 credit)
LAWG 602 Communication 2 (1.5 credit)