Oral and Written Communication Skills II
Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The successful student should have learnt how to:
Understand the Portuguese Language as a means of accessing ways of thinking, and other ways of representing the world
Acquire techniques for communication and written expression in Portuguese in a wide variety of text types
Develop grammatical, discursive, social and cultural competences.
Program
The communicative act - interactive act
- Components of the communicative act
- Conditioning factors in the communicative act
- Functions of communication
Comunication and written expression:
- Stages of the writing process; planning; textualization; revision
- Principles of textual structure: coherence, cohesion, connection
- Structure of academic and business texts: review; report; summary; commentary; institutional presentation; press release; brochure.
Text and discourse:
- Multiplicity and functionality in discourse genres
- Compositional heterogeneity of texts
- Textual sequences: narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explanatory
- Statement versus Sentence
- Modalization of discourse
- Standard language and Usage
- Language registers (careful, everyday, familiar, popular)
Teaching methods and learning activities
Theoretical exposition on relevant matters
Practical application of concepts through the planning, composition and writing of various types of texts
keywords
Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
Weight (%) |
End date |
Attendance (estimated) |
Participação presencial |
52,00 |
|
|
Evaluations |
Exame |
4,00 |
|
|
Research work |
Trabalho escrito |
42,00 |
|
|
Application Exercises |
Teste |
52,00 |
|
|
|
Total: |
- |
0,00 |
|
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
End date |
Tutorial Study |
Estudo autónomo |
12 |
|
|
Total: |
12,00 |
|
Eligibility for exams
Positive note in the test / exam and practical work.
Frequency of at least 75% of classes
Calculation formula of final grade
Test: 70%
Practical works:30%
Exam (applicable to special cases): 70%
Examinations or Special Assignments
Not applicable
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
Not applicable
Classification improvement
In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.
Observations
Teaching language: Portuguese