The Importance of Respect and Academic Communication

The Importance of Respect

The importance of respect is a great topic explained by Juan and Roberto. This presentation shows the importance of respect in our life. Respect has great importance in everyday life. It gives us to think about our lifestyle, ideas, customs and social behaviour of society. The awareness about respect must be explained to everyone from the childhood. In my opinion, we should know how to socialize in our civilization because we are who create relationships. Cultural differences play a significant role in this topic. We all different by our ethnicity, culture or colour of skin, but we are all humans. In this since, we are equal, and we should love and respect to each other.

The STAR Method

The STAR method is a structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing the specific situation (set the scene), task (describe the purpose), action (explain what you did), and result (share rhe outcome) of the situation you are describing. You may be asked to explain or give examples of scenarios or work projects that were successful or not, rewarding or difficult, and why.  Such questions help the interviewer determine things like how you deal with certain situations, what specific and relevant experience you have, or how you would approach a particular situation that is likely to come up in the role itself.

Job interview is a process of a conversation between a jop applicant and a representative of an employer.

Academic English

Academic English refers to the oral, written, auditory and visual proficiency required to learn and communicate effectively in schools and academic programs, where English is used as a vehicular language.  Academic English is usually formal in tone, it has an advanced vocabulary and impersonal style. We avoid contractions or shortened forms of verbs. We avoid personal pronouns. We may use passive forms and academic vocabulary.

A Genre

A genre is a class of communicative events, the members of which share a communicative purpose.  John Swales- a father of analysis of academic genres. Exemplars of genre exhibit various patterns of similarity in terms of structure, style, content and intended audience.

Oral, written-> production, expression

Auditory, vision -> comprehension

Written Genres

Written genres: text book, article, magazine, encyclopaedia. W.G. are visual, permanent, highly structured, contain written par.features.

Oral Genres

Oral genres: lessons, interviews. Or.G. auditory and visual, ephemeral, semi-structured, contain paralinguistic features (e.g. pronunciation, volume, ) + written paralinguistic features, represent your personality.

Multimodality

Multimodality is a representation and communication of meaning through a multiplicity of modes (visual, writing, verbal or speech, gestures, etc.)

Oral Communication

Oral comm. is the process of expressing information or ideas by word of mouth.    We communicate: -Verbally: 1) spoken, 2) written- Non-verbally: 3) non-verbal materials (images, graphs, charts, video clips), 4) body language.

Academic communication is effective if speakers use or combine modes and connect with the audience.