Revising and Editing Texts

Code:

MTSL048

Acronym:

PRT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Linguistics

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

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	13	Translation and Language Services	1	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The expected outcomes of the course are for successful students to be able to:
• Analyze and classify a wide variety of written and spoken texts according to genre, domain and style;
• Produce texts in Portuguese in varies to scientific, technical, journalistic and commercial styles;
• Write reports, article and abstracts;
• Adapt texts or translations to another audience, genre or style;
• Follow the recommendation of the European Norm for Translation Services 15038;
• Understand and implement the instructions given in style guides, guidelines, and other manuals supplied by clients;
• Recognize the possibilities and limitations of revision parameters in the context of the professional situation;
• Evaluate their own work and that of others

Program

This programme will cover the following:
Linguistic Theory
• Simple and complex sentence structure
• Given and New Information
• Theme and Rheme
• Organization of information

Introduction to and analysis of
• Existing manuals on writing techniques;
• Style guides on academic writing, newspaper articles, software documentation, and other types of technical writing;
Practical work in the production of texts in different styles and genres
An introduction to the problems of revising and editing with exercises on:
• General, stylistic, structural and content editing
• Revision procedures
• Revision in the Professional context
• Self revision
• Revison of work by others

Mandatory literature

Bloor, T., & A. Bloor; The Functional Analysis of English: A Hallidayan Approach – 2nd Edition, Hodder Arnold, 2004
Mossop, B. ; Revising and Editing for translators – 2nd edition, Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, 2007

Software

Microsoft Office

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Applied linguistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	30,00
Test	Exame	2,00
Study	Exame	30,00
Project	Exame	19,00
	Total:	-	0,00