To a certain extent, what a seminar is depends on your goals, but a seminar basically means gathering together a group of experts, who talk about various aspects of a topic. Usually, there is an audience of people who want to learn from the experts.

The seminar may function as a panel discussion, or the experts may be on stage one at a time and present in-turn. There will likely be a single moderator. The seminar may be a one-time thing, or it may be a recurring series of meetings or events.

In your case, a seminar could be a group of PhD researchers sharing information to help each other, either with or without an audience.

As I said, it depends on your outcome goals.

To a certain extent, what a seminar is depends on your goals, but a seminar basically means gathering together a group of experts, who talk about various aspects of a topic. Usually, there is an audience of people who want to learn from the experts.

The seminar may function as a panel discussion, or the experts may be on stage one at a time and present in-turn. There will likely be a single moderator. The seminar may be a one-time thing, or it may be a recurring series of meetings or events.

In your case, a seminar could be a group of PhD researchers sharing information to help each other, either with or without an audience.

As I said, it depends on your outcome goals.

A good answer from Michael - and the use of the term 'seminar' may vary from country to country and institution to institution. It sounds like you are referring to the process of presenting to achieve a PhD milestone. That could be to present your research proposal, your mid-Candidature or a final thesis presentation. Whatever, as Michael has identified - it's usually presenting to an invited audience - which is often College/Faculty-wide. Supervisors are encouraged to attend. A time period is allocated (often around an hour for presentation and Q&A's - and maybe a supervisor team de-brief following). Often an invited 'expert' is asked to review material before-hand and feedback - and is usually present at the presentation.

As I understand, Mr Qusman is referring to Ph D seminar .

a) Ph D Seminar is an opportunity to present your work before a panel of experts (including your supervisors(s).). The purpose is to articulate the work you have done (in terms of your problem statement, literature survey, tentative methodology and possible work plan giving timelines for the remaining work). The expert panel may give inputs your work. This is to facilitate /enhance your understanding of the problem and also to suggest mid course corrections.

b) Seminar is also a interaction forum to present blue-print of proposed work and seek suggestions for its improvement.

c) Seminar is also an effort to document whatever we have understood as part of the Ph D process. It helps to structure our thinking process and an overall understanding of the problem at hand. This process of documentation helps at a later stage while writing the thesis.

Wish you the best.

What is seminar? Guys i am starting writing seminar, but still i have problems in understanding the meaning of seminar and its formats at PHD level. i need your help.

Think you might be referring to seminar paper at PhD level. If that is the case - the seminar sometimes also being addressed as research conference. The seminar / research conference write up also called conference proceeding or research paper. How you structure / write a research paper is similar to a PhD thesis i.e. you need to have research problem, literature review, methodology, result findings, discussion & conclusion. However, research paper can be subset of the above & usually is still hot from your research "oven".

A seminar is a sort of an open platform where a researcher gets an opportunity to share his/ her research ideas and findings directly with a portion of the research community, thereby can interact with them in an open manner sharing each other viewpoints, critism and insights .

A seminar is just a conference or other meeting for discussion or training.

A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups (smaller than conferences) for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate.

In the Russian scientific tradition, a seminar is a discussion on a given topic. It can be educational (at a university) or a working (at a scientific organization). Therefore, I do not understand what is a "writing seminar". Reports (which must be written) are made for conferences. In seminars, people usually express their thoughts outside of any formal framework (excluding the quite obvious ones). Sometimes, in educational seminars, the leader (or moderator, if you like) asks someone to make a message or report - for the "seed" or "start". But this is called - a message (or report) at the seminar.

The seminar is a summary of what has been achieved in the research stage through which the results can be discussed as well as inquire about some of the results obtained and then evaluate the performance of the researcher during the research period.

In the context of graduate courses, the seminar format contrasts with the lecture format. In a seminar class the instructor functions like a moderator, arbitrator, and resource person and guides the proceedings. The students do presentations on assigned topics in the subject matter of the course and must respond to questions, comments, and criticisms from the other students in the class and from the instructor during a general discussion. Whether or not questions are allowed during the presentation itself is decided beforehand. Typically a seminar-class meets once or twice a week during the semester and a session last may last approx. 1.5 hours or 3 hours with a break in the middle.

Thank you everybody, But I am asked to write a seminar paper concerning Digital Marketing. this seminar writing is just as any other subject matter used to fulfill the semester basis curriculum before going for dissertation proposal writing. that is why am confused

You should present at the seminar the justification for doing your research on Digital Marketing. The reactions you get will guide your research path and it will inform the content of your proposal. In fact, the title of your symposium can be "Proposal for research in Digital Marketing: ________". Add in your own words like: Strategy | Planning | Trends | etc.

Seminar is normally an assembly of interested colleagues where one of the scientists presents some of his/her work (e.g.for 30 minutes or even shorter) and then it is discussed, critizised, and normally some improvement of the work/presentation results.

This is my understanding of a seminar. This occurs normally in a derpartment or institute and is not an open event.