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The objective of this curricular unit is to enable students to gain and train their revising and editing skills of different text types and genres, from a variety of areas and using diverse tools.

By the end of the semester, the students should be able to:

- analyse and classify texts of various types and genres, in order to identify potential issues and adopt appropriate strategies and resources for the communicative context;
- write texts for specific purposes in Portuguese and/or other working languages in a variety of text genres, for specific situations, under particular constraints and for specific recipients;
- accurately adapt, restructure, summarise and shorten existing texts or translations in the working languages, orally or in writing, or repurpose the texts for another audience, genre or style;
- understand and implement the instructions provided in style guides, 'guidelines' and other manuals supplied by clients, in addition to the regulations on the production of specialised texts;
- check, revise/review and edit original texts and translations in their working languages, considering specific quality standards and objectives;
- pre-edit source material using appropriate pre-editing techniques to improve the quality of machine translation;
- revise computer-mediated translation output, adjusting revision levels and techniques to quality and productivity objectives, while ensuring data security and integrity;
- recognise the possibilities and limitations of revising parameters in professional contexts, by critically approaching language services, and make suggestions for improvement;
- critically assess their own work and that of others, having in mind the emerging industry and market needs, as well as new job opportunities.

Students are encouraged from the beginning to collect and share  texts of disputable quality, in order to subsequently ground their initial negative assessment, based on the knowledge acquired. The work is undertaken along two main lines: firstly, from a theoretical perspective, students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the topics included in the programme, based on independent reading and in-class presentations; secondly, from a practical perspective, students are requested to analyse, edit and revise texts. This includes:

- Individual and group text drafting.
- Revision of translated texts.
- Critical discussion of the tasks of drafting, editing and revising texts.
- Revising computer-mediated translations.