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Are there any difference of the use between 'Seminar', 'Symposium' and 'Summit'?

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Question added by Ismi Puji Hastuti , English Teacher , SMK Widya Taruna
Date Posted: 2014/11/22
Dr Yasmeen Majeed
by Dr Yasmeen Majeed , Trainer and HOD

A seminar is an educational event where one or more people present their views through lecture or discussion, symposium is a more formal gathering of experts who deliver lecture or express their views on a topic. A summit is gathering of highest level of leaders and experts.

anayat bukhari
by anayat bukhari , Researcher, English Content Writer, Publisher , Noor Foundation

The answer by Yasmeen Majeed is more comprehensive and precise. I agree with the descriptions given by her for all the three terms.

I can't do any better than the fine "array"of answers you already have Ismi.

Mohd Asif Ansari
by Mohd Asif Ansari , HR Administrator , Al Nasseej Al Arabi Factory Co. Ltd.

A seminar is a lecture or presentation delivered to an audience on a particular topic or set of topics that are educational in nature. It is usually held for groups of10-50 individuals. A seminar is frequently held at a hotel meeting space or within an office conference room. Increasingly, the term "seminar" is used to describe a commercial event (though sometimes free to attend) where delegates are given information and instruction in a subject such as property investing, other types of investing, Internet marketing, self-improvement or a wide range of topics, by experts in that field. There is a speaker who give lecturer with highlights, scope, importance, benefits & limitation on the respective topic as the lecturer finish, audience ask questions. Seminars are educational events that feature one or more subject matter experts delivering information primarily via lecture and discussion. A seminar is often one person giving perhaps an hour-long lecture, although there could be more than one speaker as well.

Symposium is meeting of a number of experts in a particular field at which papers are presented by specialists on particular subjects and discussed with a view to making recommendations concerning the problems under discussion. Symposium: refer to any academic conference, or a style of university class characterized by an openly discursive format, rather than a lecture and question–answer format. The term symposium has come to refer to any event where multiple speeches are made. A symposium suggests that more than one person is speaking. A Symposium is typically a more formal or academic gathering, featuring multiple experts delivering short presentations on a particular topic.

Nicholas Poshayi
by Nicholas Poshayi , Teacher/Librarian/Academic Teacher , Brooke Bond School

Mohd has spelt it very well and clearly,l would spoil the broth if l start stammering and stuttering.The next obvious thing is l will start putting the same ideas on the same page.

Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash
by Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash , Internal Auditor, Quality Assurance Department , Giza Cable Industries

Seminars: educational events that feature one or more subject matter experts delivering information primarily via lecture and discussion.

 

Symposium: a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.

 

Conference: a meeting for consultation or discussion: a conference between a student and his adviser

mohammed Alhajri
by mohammed Alhajri , PR and Media Coordinator , Ministry of National Guards - king Abdul Aziz Medical city

yes, 

in event organizing level

credit hours for attendance

period of event

and so many more >> 

like budget value

quality of speakers .. ex. summit are only presented by top executives 

topics are limited to one for ex. in seminars unlike symposiums or summits

ect.

 

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