Portuguese - Writing Practices

Code:

MTSL020

Acronym:

PPE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Linguistics

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master of Arts in Translation and Language Services

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MTSL	22	Specialized Translation	1	-	6	60	162
		Translation and Language Services	1	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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 without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	60,00
	Exame	4,00
	Trabalho escrito	20,00
	Trabalho escrito	20,00
	Teste	48,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	10
	Total:	10,00

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%