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Academic Writing Seminar

Code: 107231 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
1500086 Social and Cultural Anthropology FB 1

Contact

Name:
Dolors Poch Olive
Email:
dolors.poch@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

They are not necessary


Objectives and Contextualisation

In order to deepen the training in the instrumental use of the Catalan language and the Spanish language in technical and scientific writing, strategies for writing specialized texts in a clear, correct and 
appropriate manner for each circumstance will be discussed , subject and discipline. Special attention will be paid to the various textual typologies, to the stages of text elaboration and to the properties 
that characterize quality writing.

Learning Outcomes

  1. CM04 (Competence) Draft academic documents in the field of anthropology.
  2. CM05 (Competence) Use academic communication strategies appropriately in the transmission of information in the anthropological field.
  3. KM05 (Knowledge) Identify the basic narrative tools (argumentative and textual) in the construction of a text or anthropological and/or ethnographic material.
  4. SM05 (Skill) Produce texts that are correct and appropriate to the academic register.
  5. SM06 (Skill) Apply argumentative, textual and analytical procedures effectively and appropriately in formal and scientific texts.
  6. SM07 (Skill) Use appropriate terminology in the construction of an academic text in anthropology.

Content

1. STRATEGIES FOR WRITING ACADEMIC TEXTS
										
											1.1 The objectives.
										
											1.2. The planning
										
											1.3. The stages of writing. 
										
											1.4 The review.
										
											1.5. The instruments and the resources.
										
											2. PRAGMATICS AND ACADEMIC TEXTUAL TYPE
										
											2.1. Genre and register. Adequacy, style and conventions. Specialty languages.
										
											2.2. The voices of the discourse (points of view and impersonalization).
										
											2.3. The exhibition: Definition, criticism, analogy, reformulation, summary and controversy.
										
											2.4. Argumentation: Structure of argumentative texts and rhetorical figures.
										
											2.5. The review and review. The criticism the essay
										
											2.6. Research works: theses, TFM, projects and work proposals.
										
											3. THE STRUCTURE OF THE WRITTEN TEXT
										
											3.1. The organization of the text. Macrostructure.
										
											3.2. Textual cohesion and coherence.
										
											3.3. Discursive connectors. Other textual consistency procedures.
										
											3.4. The microstructure: punctuation, connectors and parentheses. 
										
											3.5. Anaphoric and dictic relations. Internal and external references.
										
											4. GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE
										
											4.1. Word order and communicative value of the parts of the text. Theme, rhyme, focus and emphasis. 
										
											4.2. Predicative structure: verbs, subject and complements. 
										
											4.3. The structure of the fragment and the paragraph. The adequacy and good formation of complex sentences.

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Theoretical and practice 50 2 CM04, CM05, KM05, SM05, SM06, SM07
Type: Supervised      
tutorial 21 0.84 CM04, CM05, KM05, SM05, SM06, SM07
Type: Autonomous      
preparation of examens and essays 71.5 2.86 CM04, CM05, KM05, SM05, SM06, SM07 

The theoretical explanations by the teaching staff and the performance of activities by the students will be combined. The concepts listed in points 1 and 2 of the contents are of a general nature and applicable
 to the two languages in which this subject is taught. The rest of the content points, on the other hand, will be covered by activities in which the students will develop a series of resources of a rhetorical and 
grammatical nature that will allow them to write academic texts in the two languages that are the subject of the subject, which are those in which with all probability the student's professional life will develop.
										
											
										
											15 minutes of a class will be set aside, within the calendar established by the center/degree, for students to fill in surveys to evaluate the performance of the teaching staff and to evaluate the subject.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Deliveries 3 3 0.12 CM04, CM05, KM05, SM05, SM06, SM07
Final written text 3 3 0.12 CM04, CM05, KM05, SM05, SM06, SM07
Participation and activities 3 1.5 0.06 CM04, CM05, KM05, SM05, SM06, SM07 

The continuous assessment of the subject will consist of:
										
											* Exercises and participation: 20%
										
											* Deliveries: 30% - 40%
										
											* Final written test: 40% - 50%
										
											The unique evaluation of the subject will consist of:
										
											* Individual exercise 1 (30%)
										
											* Individual exercise 2 (30%)
										
											Final written test (40%)

										
											The final assessment will result from the weighted sum of the scores of the various tests.
										
											Test dates will be announced at the beginning of the term and exercise due dates will be scheduled and announced in the Moddle classroom.
										
											The subject can be retaken if the grade average is higher than 3.5.
										
											In the event that the student commits any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment act, this assessment act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary 
process that may be instituted. If several irregularities occur in the proceedings, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
										
											In order to pass the subject, a minimum grade of 5 must be obtained.

Bibliography

The basic bibliography that the teachers of the subject will complete during the development of the program is indicated:

 

 

CASSANY, D. (1993), La cuina de l'escriptura, Barcelona, Empúries.

CASSANY, D. (2007), Esmolar l'eina: Guia de redacció per professionals, Barcelona, Empúries.

IEC (2016), Gramàtica de la lengua catalana, Barcelona, IEC.

 

CALSAMIGLIA, H.; Tusón, A. (1999), Las cosas del decir, Barcelona, Ariel.

REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA (2009), Nueva Gramática de la lengua española, Madrid, Espasa.

REYES, Graciela (1998), "Registros, estilos y tipos de textos", en Cómo escribir bien en español, Madrid, Arco Libros, pp. 47-80.

 


Software

It is not necessary


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 2 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 2 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed