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MMA – Power Punching your Presentations The Oral Communication Committee offered a series of four workshops on presentation skills. We based our content on ideas derived from multimodal analysis, (Kress, 2009) in which messages may be made more powerful or impactful by aligning the different ways meaning is made in a message. Messages or presentations …

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Check out the highlights some of the Centre’s key milestones, collaborations with various stakeholders,  events, and colleagues’ contributions to scholarly activities here.

Writing and Communication Hub (Oral Communication) is ready to begin the new semester!   There are 5 faculty members supporting this committee: Doreen Tan, Amelyn A Thompson, Netty H binte Zaini Mattar, Tony Goh and Lee Jun Hiang (all pictured).   This year, we have recruited two new peer tutors: Barnabas Sng (FoS, Year 2) and …

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Face-threatening acts – How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face Under the auspices of the Oral Communication Committee (CELC), on March 29th Tim Groombridge and Lee Gek Ling conducted a 90-minute workshop entitled Face-threatening acts – How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face. In total, there were 22 participants; both staff and students were present. This …

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The Goldilocks Factor to Winning Self-introductions Following from the fully subscribed first run in November 2022, the Oral Communication Camp Team ran this workshop, twice more in March 2023. The topic seems to be useful as we were fully subscribed within minutes of the e-poster being sent out. There was even a waiting list. Participants …

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The 90-minute workshop, Building Bridges – Communicating and Collaborating Effectively in Culturally Diverse Teams, was conducted by Dr Yurni Said-Sirhan on 21 February 2023 for the second time at the Central Library Training Room as part of the Oral Communication Workshop series by the NUS Writing and Communication Hub. The 13 participants who attended the …

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The WCH-Undergraduate peer tutors are from across all disciplines and levels (see profiles). The 8 peer tutors are: Timothy Yee, Saloni Baxi, Win Lae Yee, Mira Ho, Rachel Clare de Silva, Kay Yeo, Oon Jie Rui and Jannatun Tajrian (Not pictured – Win Lae Yee and Mira Ho). The faculty committee supporting the WCH-U are: …

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The Writing and Communication Hub Graduate team is ready! The WCH-G, staffed by the Graduate Peer Mentors pictured here, is excited to play its part in supporting the NUS Graduate community in their writing needs. The faculty committee (Marrisa E Kwan, Jonathon Tang, Uma Jayaraman, Jungyoung Kim and Jason Banta) prepared the 4 day training …

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