Sentence examples for academic speak from inspiring English sources

Before 2000, less than five scientific articles a year dealt with "subjective wellbeing", academic speak for happiness and life satisfaction.

Or, in academic speak, "the substantial proportion of imitation present in improvements shows that imitated guesses were often the basis for further productive exploration".

"Touched them up" was not the first unexpected phrase to crop up amongst Saleam's otherwise well-mannered academic speak (he has a PhD, after all).

Academics speak of a desire to "emancipate readers" from their orthodoxies and misapprehensions, even though few scholars "seem to have a robust account of into what condition of existence it would be ideal for humans to be freed".

It's not often that a company like Google makes its own GIF in response to a request for comment, but I gather this goes to show that Google wants to move on from this discussion and let the academics speak for themselves.

But academics speaking out of their own and everyone else's comfort zone isn't always to be advised – as anyone who saw David Starkey on Newsnight will fist-bitingly remember.

One of Pakistan's handful of serious academics spoke yearningly of the liberal scholarly atmosphere he had recently enjoyed at a conference in Tehran.Without deep reform to Pakistan's laws and institutions, a young and rapidly growing population seems likely to continue drifting towards extremism.

Cizek and a team of academics spoke with people in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe and North America to explore how people living in vertical buildings interact and engage, and how technology is influencing this not always for the better.

Because she speaks and presents herself in a way that is "very different from the way many academics and academic administrators speak," Ms. Kaminer said that describing her provided "a hint of how she stands apart from the cultural mores" of academia.

Her narrator is Clare, a middle-aged academic speaking in the present tense.

The evidence suggests that students' problems centre on academic writing (particularly style, grammar and cohesion) and academic speaking (particularly grammar, fluency and pronunciation).