Metodologias em Ciências da Comunicação

Objetivos

O seminário apresenta os principais métodos através dos quais as Ciências da Comunicação, que são um campo multidisciplinar do conhecimento, desenvolvem a sua investigação e produzem os seus resultados. Os seus objectivos principais são tornar o estudante capaz de:
(i) conhecer os principais metodologias, e ferramentas de análise, utilizadas para realizar investigação em Ciências da Comunicação;
(ii) ser capaz de utilizar para produzir resultados próprios pelo menos dois desses métodos e, em especial, aquele(s) que se revelar(em), mais adequado(s) à investigação que conduzirá a elaboração da sua dissertação;
(iii) saber avaliar a qualidade dos resultados produzidos em função quer das virtualidades e limitações dos próprio método, quer do caso particular ao qual o método tenha sido aplicado.

Caracterização geral

Código

73201100

Créditos

10.0

Professor responsável

Fabrizio Macagno

Horas

Semanais - 2

Totais - 280

Idioma de ensino

Português

Pré-requisitos

None.

Bibliografia

Krippendorff, Klaus. 2004. Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Macagno, Fabrizio, and Chrysi Rapanta. 2019. The logic of academic writing. New York, NY: Wessex Press.

Swales, John, and Christine Feak. 2012. Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and skills. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Whittemore, Robin, and Kathleen Knafl. 2005. The integrative review: updated methodology. Journal of advanced nursing 52. Wiley Online Library: 546–553. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03621.x.

Método de ensino

he sessions will combine expository presentations with hands-‐on experience. In every two sessions students will be given a writing task to complete in class working individually or in dyads (depending on the number of participants). The written artefacts produced in each task will be evaluated by the teachers either by e-‐mail or in whole class sessions. Examples of written work are going to be used to highlight functional and non-‐functional writing strategies at all points. Students will also be asked to work on an individual project of theirs, either project draft or short article, and go through it both as a homework exercise and as their final assessed outcome.

Método de avaliação

a) Classroom participation (10%);

b) Presentation of a project or paper (20%);

3) Final project draft or short article (70%).

Conteúdo

The course is interdisciplinary in the sense that it will cover the main aspects of academic writing in the social sciences and humanities. Drawing on good and bad examples of articles in different areas (eg. Philosophy, Education, Communication) we will show what a good article should contain and how contents need to be structured in order for the article to be clear and persuasive. More precisely we will focus on the following topics:

a) General structure of an academic article;

b) Internal structure of sessions and passage from one session to another;

c) Academic citations and ways of referring to others’ works;

d) Criteria of evaluation and their application on concrete examples;

e) Use of English and its function as a direct language;

f) Reference conventions and APA style

Learning objectives:

Identifying and applying the persuasive structure of an academic article.

Learning and applying the global and detailed (paragraph) structure of an academic article.

Familiarizing with the criteria of peer review and how they may affect the quality of an article and its adaptability for publication.

Identifying and understanding the scope and structure of different types of articles ranging from empirical to theoretical articles (including review articles).

Learning the basics of academic project writing.

Learning the basics concerning the most important research methods

Cursos

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