Category: scientific writing

Academic English as seen by @joshuarothman #appliedlinguistics #writing

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Humanities School, Universidad de Murcia

“Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish—but that’s because academia has become that way, too. Today’s academic work, excellent though it may be, is the product of a shrinking system. It’s a tightly-packed, super-competitive jungle in there”.

Read the article by Joshua Rothman

Academic discourse: EIDUM 2014-2015


Academic discourse – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires


Source: www.phdcomics.comReferences

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Carter-Thomas, S.,   Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2003. Analysing the scientific conference presentation (CP). A methodological overview of a multimodal genre, ASp, 39-40, 59-72.

Carter-Thomas, S., Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2005. Genre Awareness and rhetorical appropriacy
: manipulation of information structure by NS and NNS scientists in the international
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Rugg, G.,  Petre, M. 2004. The unwriten rules of PhD research. Berkshire: Open University Press.

Scitable: English communication for scientists: Giving oral presentations. Nature.com.


Presentations (general presentations)

How to deliver an oral presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_h5iPPYPO8

A bad presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATfY8dvbuFg

Comparing oral presentations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRaPmO6TlaM