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Author: Ludmila |
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Date Posted: 23:39:26 08/24/10 Tue Hey everybody, I'm sending you some of the notes I've taken. It's not much, soon I will send you more. Till later, bye! 1-In a conference, what is the role of a “keynote speakers”, and who are invited to be keynote speakers? A keynote speaker is someone responsible for lecturing and usually is the person who supports the major theme in a conference. A keynote speaker is the person who presents the issues of primary interest to a group f people. A good keynote speaker is able to keep people’s attention on the speech and on the event. When people gather for a meeting or in a conference, they tend to be easily distracted with their own issues and daily routines. So generally, the job of a keynote speaker is to keep the audience focused on the event. In order for a person to be considered as keynote speaker in an event, he or she needs to have certain qualities such as; be well known in the field that he or she are supposed to give the speech, be someone with a respectable name due to previous accomplishment and be highly skilled as a public speaker. The role of a keynote speaker is to be the moderator or the chairman of an event. He or she that is performing as a keynote speaker is the one who controls the tone of an event. A keynote speaker is usually included to present a conference, and often is someone from the academic environment or sometimes someone who is known widely from other field. 2- What type of communication sessions are there in conferences? Conferences are organized either by a scientific society or by a group of researches with a common interest. Conferences are usually filled with many presentations and those individual presentations tend to be concise, short and with a time span that varies. They are usually followed by a discussion. Presenting at an academic conference it requires an individual to submit one of the following proposals: an individual paper, a poster or a colloquia proposal. Also the proposal needs to approved, for a participant takes part in a conference Now, in order to facilitate the comprehension, it is useful to explain what it means each proposal: Individual papers = research paper written by one or more authors Posters = one-on-one discussion of a research. It displays the results of a research Colloquia = an academic discussion of a certain topic that is divided in blocks of hours or days. 3- Conferences publish all the abstract in conference prociding which ar held by libraries [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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