Speed presentations and (English) academic writing

30 Setembro 2020, 15:00 • Marta Pacheco Pinto

Students made a 5-minute presentation of their PhD research work (research questions and claim, conceptual and methodological approaches, contribution to the field/brief state of the art), which was followed by up to 10 minutes of peer discussion.

After these “speed presentations”, we started discussing the conventions and main features of academic writing. We covered issues concerning abstract writing and keywords, in addition to exploring different abstract typologies (structured vs. non-structured, and video abstracts). Several resources (both online and in-house) were also presented for students to improve their English academic writing.