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Effective Conference Presentation Summaries, Conclusions, and Closings

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This chapter looks at the discourse and metadiscourse choices that allow for more impactful CP summaries, conclusions, and closings. Based on observations made at academic conferences, both effective and ineffective strategies will be discussed, with authentic CP examples used to illustrate the key points.

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  • Yokoyama, S., Suzuki, C., Yasunami, S., & Kawakita, N. (2012). A direct application of medical corpora to academic writing: A specialized concordance search interface and Moodle-based courseware. In J. Thomas & A. Boulton (Eds.). Input, Process and Product; Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora. (pp. 83–102). Brno, Czech: Muni Press.

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Guest, M. (2018). Effective Conference Presentation Summaries, Conclusions, and Closings. In: Conferencing and Presentation English for Young Academics. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2475-8_15

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