Scientific Writing Seminar

Code:

SEC1

Acronym:

SEC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Desenho
Course/CS Responsible:	PhD in Art Education

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DEA	12	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2016	2	-	5	23	135

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Inglês

Objectives

The aim of the UC of Scientific Writing Seminar is to work on writing skills that allow students to face the writing of the thesis, but also the publication of papers or book chapters, from their research projects. Thus, students should acquire the following competencies:



- Search international databases of magazines, newspapers and publishers that publish in the thematic fields that frame the project of each student;



- Understand the rules of publication, referencing and editing appropriate to the different research platforms surveyed;



- Structure an article or chapter from the research project.

Learning outcomes and competences

The text approach of a group of authors that we could consider as part of a community that, since the second half of the twentieth century, has dedicated itself to thinking about the construction of one's own knowledge from an incessant questioning of the rules that define it, allows to initiate the students into a process of thinking about one's own thinking. Being the objective of the UC the production of a research text capable of presenting itself in international forums, this is a work that requires an antechamber in which the very processes of construction of textual and artistic objects are discussed. The production of the text is approached from the construction of a problematic that is found in the activation of processes of reading not oriented to the interpretation, but rather to an approach of the own ways of doing that, in turn, are based on intertextual mechanisms. In this way, it is sought that between the texts read and the writing produced one thinks, in the field of inscription of the object of investigation, the relations established with the inheritance that one imagines for this same problem of investigation, from the authors who are read, and the creative work of producing differences.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The Seminar on Scientific Writing develops curricularly based on the knowledge of the academic rules required in writing a doctoral dissertation, placing writing as a work process framed in external and formal logics, but also by coping with writing as a process of work on itself, based on the construction of a problem of investigation, going beyond pure formal or aesthetic exercise. In this sense, working from the centers of interest of each student, it intends to develop the capacity of problematization and synthesis of the object of investigation. The writing exercise will be approached in its intertextual complexity from authors such as Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. During the semester, students prepare the writing of an article to be submitted for publication in a journal / journal of the field of artistic education. The work will take into account the adaptation to the specific rules of each publication forum.

Mandatory literature

Agamben, G. ; Bartleby/Escrita da Potência, Assírio & Alvim, 2007
Barthes, R.; O rumor da língua, Editora Brasiliense, 1988
Blanchot, M.; O livro por vir, Martins Fontes, 2005
Foucault, M.; O que é um autor?, Vega, 2002
Compagnon, A.; O trabalho da citação, Editora UFMG, 2007

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes are organized in seminar mode, which means a strong option for a participative model around the comment and debate about texts that are a must read for this UC. The main objective of this seminar is to start students in a shareable writing dynamics, first in the doctoral group, and then in international discussion platforms. The seminary space is taken from Roland Barthes, as a complicity of language in which the desire is fixed in the Text. The seminar allows, at the level of the third cycle, the transition from one model of transmission of knowledge to another one of development of competences centered in the own processes of construction of scientific / artistic objects. The production of a critical thinking and positioning requires an open confrontation in the classroom, capable of providing discussions and production of critical thinking among all participants in the seminar. The seminar modality decentralizes a more traditional idea of class, opening up the possibility of making this space-time a space for sharing ideas and confronting, duly argued, different positions. It is only in this place of exchange that an analytical and meticulous, necessarily slow, and, we would say, almost artisanal, work of producing critical and dissident thinking in artistic education is imagined. Thus, the teaching methodologies adopted require confrontation with the other's thinking in order to foster moments of dialogue and sharing of doubts and experiences capable of contributing to innovative and critical positions in educational, social, political, artistic, cultural contexts , Community, and also research. In this way, the methodologies implemented lead to the production of a written object for publication.



Throughout the semester some classes will be reserved for students to present their own writing work (even in the process) and discuss them. Individual work, group discussion and tutorial orientation.



Type of Evaluation: Without final examination



Frequency Conditions: Qualified participation in face-to-face sessions, autonomous research work, final article.



Evaluation formula: Qualitative weighting between face-to-face and autonomous work (40%).



Classification of final work (60%).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	60,00
Participação presencial	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	6,00
Frequência das aulas	17,00
Trabalho de investigação	60,00
Trabalho escrito	52,00
Total:	135,00

Eligibility for exams

Class attendance; carrying out the defined tasks; presentation and discussion of the work; writing of a scientific article.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation formula: Qualitative weighting between face-to-face and autonomous work (40%).



Classification of final work (60%).

Classification improvement

Improvement of classification by enrollment and attendance in the following year.