PG Tips Predoctoral Seminar at CARE (Centre of Advanced Research in English)

Dr Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo was invited to participate in a PG Tips Predoctoral Seminar at CARE (Centre of Advanced Research in English), University of Birmingham (UK), March 5, 2019. Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “A research (hi)story of writers’ visibility; from written academic discourse to digital genres (and back to discourse)” This research seminar was addressed to doctoral students…

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IX BIFI National Conference Tools for a future research career

Dr Ramón Plo-Alastrué was invited to give a student workshop in the IX BIFI National Conference Tools for a future research career held at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), January 30 – February 1, 2019. Plo-Alastrué, Ramón: “Giving a scientific presentation in English: Survival…

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METM’18: Oliver Shaw’s workshop on the discussion section in research articles.

Oliver Shaw conducted a workshop about the discussion section in academic research articles for the Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting (MEMT) that took place the 5th of October in Girona (Spain). His workshop was titled “The discussion section in academic research articles: patterns, practices and insights for editors and translators”, and the full abstract can…

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14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres

Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “Who’s talking to me?: The construction of writers’ identity in digital academic genres” Abstract Nowadays Internet has become the platform which everybody resorts to when suffering from a health problem. This urgent need to find out medical information (Herrando-Rodrigo, 2014) has led institutions and mass media publications to craft a new digital genre…

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14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres

Corona, Isabel: “A window to the world: Visual design and research visibility of European research projects homepages” Abstract The growth and specialization of scientific output and the increasing prevalence of transnational collaborative efforts in academia have led researchers to seek greater visibility within a highly competitive playing field, while creating a need to optimize the…

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14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres

Rosa Lorés-Sanz (InterGedi) and Giuliana Diani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italia) organized the Seminar “Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres” at the 14th ESSE Conference, which took place in Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), August 29-September 2, 2018. In this Seminar, two other members…

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XVII AELFE 2018: Daniel Pascual. Innovation and research in the globalization era

Pascual, Daniel: “What is there within a blog? Generic relationships in travel blog posts and comments” Abstract Immediacy and accessibility characterize the use of the net when retrieving information and interacting with other users. Interactions have largely evolved thanks to digital genres, which allow for dialogical and bilateral relationships in the web that traditional printed…

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CERLIS 2018: Silvia Murillo. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia

Murillo Ornat, Silvia: “Reformulation processes in European project websites: an exploratory study” Abstract Nowadays, most international projects have an associated website, which is potentially used as a means to disseminate the results of their research and to enhance the academic projection of the participating scholars and institutions. These websites usually include several sections with common…

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