Written Communication (WCOM-DP)

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Nível

Formação (F)

Tipo

Não Estruturante

Regime

Semestral

Carga Horária

Aula Teórica (T): 0.0 h/semana

Aula TeoricoPrática (TP): 2.0 h/semana

Créditos ECTS: 1.0

Objectivos

General objectives:

- To develop ISEG/ULisboa students? communicative competence in writing in English;

- To provide techniques and practice exercises for students to improve their written
communication in English;

- To develop students? understanding of genres (standard text types).

Learning outcomes:

- To understand the relations between the socio-cultural context of a written text, genres and lexico-grammatical resources in English;

- To produce short and coherent texts in English.

Programa

- Theoretical underpinnings;
- Word language tools;
- Common mistakes by Portuguese speakers;
- Principles of text organisation:
a. Paragraph development;
b. Thematic progression;
c. Cohesive devices;
- Register (tenor):
a. Nominalization;
b. Making the subjective sound objective.
- Academic writing:
a. Written answers in tests and exams;
b. Essays and assignments;
c. Dissertations & theses;
d. Paraphrasing & summarizing.
- Writing in the workplace:
a. Letters;
b. Paper vs email;
c. Reports.

Metodologia de avaliação

Information collected in class;
Written exercises and texts (homework).

Bibliografia

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