Text Practices
Objectives
The main goal of this curricular unit is to exercise the specificity of the reading tasks and text production, in an academic and scientific context, in order to effective performances.
In the end of the curricular unit it is intended that the students will be able to:
a) recognize the textual practices specificities depending on the type of activity in which they are insert;
b) use metacognitive resources which may facilitate the reading assignments and text production;
c) manipulate linguistic mechanisms responsible for the textual organization and for the marking of enunciative responsibilities;
d) distinguish the activities of paraphrase, summary and comment;
e) properly integrate the activities of paraphrase, summary and comment on different text genres;
f) dominate, in terms of recognition and production, regularities related to different genres of academic activity.
General characterization
Code
711131045
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Maria Antónia Diniz Caetano Coutinho
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Coutinho, A. (2019). Práticas textuais em contexto académico/científico. Texto e(m) linguística. Teorias, cruzamentos, aplicações (pp. 81-136). Colibri.
Giannini, S. (2023). Reflections on generative AI and the future of education. UNESCO 2023. URL: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385877
Jorge, N. O. (2019). A síntese como género escolar transdisciplinar. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 32(2), 150–170. https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.15140
Machado, A. R. (2005). Diários de leituras: a construção de diferentes diálogos na sala de aula. Linha D'Água, 18, 61-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v0i18p61-80
Maingueneau, D. (2002). Analysis of an academic genre. Discourse Studies vol 4 (3), 319-342. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456020040030401
Teaching method
The course will combine theoretical and practical classes, including presentation, demonstration, practical exercises, group discussion and reflection on the topics studied. Classes will favour the practical implementation of theory, interaction and students’ active participation both individually and in a group.
Evaluation method
Assessment method: assignments (individual and group) associated with each module - 50%; on-site written test (40%); autonomous work (10%).
Subject matter
1. Relation between activities, texts and text genres. The specific case of academic and scientific activity: interlocutors’ socio-subjective status and communication finalities.
2. Reading strategies. The relation between reading strategy, production and text genre situation.
3. Identification and description of linguistic mechanisms responsible for the textual organization and marking enunciative responsibilities in different genres.
4. The activities of paraphrase, summary and commentary: intertextual and meta-textual relations; enunciative positions. Status of paraphrases, summaries and comments: texts and compositional elements of the texts.
5. Regularities of different genres, oral and written, characteristics of academic and scientific activity (reading records, summaries, reports, book reviews, short essays, oral presentations).
Programs
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