Academic English & Research vocabulary · Conferences and Presentations

Conference paper

Meaning in academic english & research, with examples

nounCommon term

In academic english & research, conference paper means: A research paper written for presentation at an academic conference and often published in the conference proceedings.

In Turkish: konferans bildirisi

How it is used

Used in academic contexts for submitted, accepted, revised, or presented work. Common with verbs like submit, present, revise, and publish.

Example sentences

  1. Her conference paper on bilingual classrooms was accepted after the reviewers asked for clearer links between theory and classroom data.

    Here the term means a paper submitted to a conference review process, not a journal article or an informal talk outline.

  2. Before traveling to Prague, the team shortened the conference paper so it would fit the twenty-minute presentation slot.

    In this example, the term refers to a written academic text adapted for oral presentation at a scheduled conference session.

Common collocations

  • submit a conference paper
  • present a conference paper
  • conference paper abstract
  • conference paper review

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