Chapter 8:

COMMUNICATION FOR
ACADEMIC PURPOSES
WHAT ARE COMMUNICATIONS FOR
ACADEMIC PURPOSE?
• Many people intuitively know the proper
way to communicate in different settings; for
instance, the way you speak to your friends
is usually different from the way you speak
to your parents.
BASIC SKILLS IN
ACADEMIC
COMMUNICATION
- Advanced vocabulary
- Proper grammar
- Reading Comprehension
- Verbal Expressions

COMMUNICATION IN ACADEMIC PAPERS

Academic papers are scholarly written materials that
follow the requirements of tone, diction, style, voice, etc.
appropriate to a target audience or culture. Academic
papers include but not limited to term papers, thesis,
dissertations, case studies, and research paper.
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STYLE IN ACADEMIC PAPERS
Diction –diction is word choice. When writing, use vocabulary
suited for the type of Academic papers.

EXAMPLES:
Formal Diction: She is not dismissed
Casual Diction: She is not fired.
Slang (very informal): She ain’t kicked out.

Besides the level of formality, also consider positive or negative

connotations of the words choses.

EXAMPLES:
Positive: Cutting the grass
Negative: Slashing the grass
Tone –the tone may be objective, or subjective, logical or emotional, intimate
or distant, serious or humorous. It can consist mostly of long, intricate
sentences, of short, simple ones, or of something in between.

Tone vs. Voice –anything you write should still have your voice: something that
makes your writing sound uniquely like you.

EXAMPLES:
From Miles Davis: “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
From Arthur Schnabel: “The notes I handle, no better than many pianists,
But the pauses between the notes –ah, that is where the art resides.

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Style – when writing a term paper, the one thing you have to remember is
to use authoritative sources. These are the vital if the paper is to persuade
the intended audience.

CONVEYING IDEAS THROUGH ORAL PRESENTATION

1. Know your audience.
2. Be organized
3. Practice your presentation
4. Be professional
5. Be aware of technical problems.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF ORAL PRESENTATION
• Oral presentations are excellent means of communicating, basic science or clinical research.

GENERAL GUIDELINE IN DESIGNING ORAL

PRESENTATION
Here are some general guidelines to keep in mind when designing your presentation.

1. Title (include authors and affiliations)

2. Introduction (Background, Purpose, Hypothesis)
3. Method (A brief introduction to the methodology without too much technical Jargon.
4. Results (Use graphs / charts/ table/, provides an extra slide / transparency with summary of the
results.)
5. Conclusions/discussion (clear explanation of the results, Clinical implications
6. Future work
7. Acknowledgement
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