Academic English #70. put together: create, prepare

“Put together” goes beyond the simple meanings of “gather” or “assemble.” It is often used to express the act of organizing something by bringing people or ideas together, or of arranging materials.

It is also a colloquial expression that Americans naturally use in everyday conversation.

In academic and business settings, it is also an essential expression when preparing presentation materials or papers.

3 everyday English examples

• Can you put together a presentation for tomorrow?
• We need to put together a travel plan.
• He put together his new computer by himself.
• It took some time to put together the party.

Academic and professional English example sentences

• I put together the presentation materials for this conference.
• Our research team put together the data and derived new findings.
• We put together the manuscript with our co-authors.