2025
Workshop on academic writing
Name: Workshop on academic writing
Code: LLT14976L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Linguistics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
General aim:
To develop scientific, critical-thinking, and argumentative writing skills, in an academic context, through exploratory learning, and also to encourage students to pursue postgraduate studies.
In terms of competencies to be acquired, the aim is for students to be able to:
- Get acquainted with some features/characteristics of academic texts.
- Identify formal criteria for presentation, organisation, clarity, correctness and rigour in academic writing.
- Produce excerpts of academic texts of linguistic and semantic quality, with a clearly defined objective/purpose.
- Acknowledge argumentation as a necessary requirement for academic writing.
- Use/apply basic elements of argumentation in a dynamic way.
- Use software to support academic research.
- Boost the practice of "workshops" in educational contexts.
To develop scientific, critical-thinking, and argumentative writing skills, in an academic context, through exploratory learning, and also to encourage students to pursue postgraduate studies.
In terms of competencies to be acquired, the aim is for students to be able to:
- Get acquainted with some features/characteristics of academic texts.
- Identify formal criteria for presentation, organisation, clarity, correctness and rigour in academic writing.
- Produce excerpts of academic texts of linguistic and semantic quality, with a clearly defined objective/purpose.
- Acknowledge argumentation as a necessary requirement for academic writing.
- Use/apply basic elements of argumentation in a dynamic way.
- Use software to support academic research.
- Boost the practice of "workshops" in educational contexts.
Contents
1. Academic and scientific writing
1.1 Basic rules of academic ethics: integrity, humility, confidence
2. Some types of academic text: characteristics and principles
2.1 Summaries; presentations; comments (written and oral).
2.2 School assignments; reports
2.3 Papers; book chapters; dissertations; theses
3. Textual schemata and mechanisms for organising academic texts
3.1 Macro, meso and microstructural dimensions based on text analysis: some linguistic mechanisms
3.2 The literature review section: rhetoric and strategies
3.3 Issues of bibliographical referencing; uses of scientific authorities citing from credible sources; ways of citing
4. The argumentative and critical dimension of the academic text
4.1 Concepts and types/structures of arguments
4.2 Strategies, effectiveness and construction of arguments
5. Information literacy in preparing academic work: searching and exploring bibliographic databases; bibliographic management tools
1.1 Basic rules of academic ethics: integrity, humility, confidence
2. Some types of academic text: characteristics and principles
2.1 Summaries; presentations; comments (written and oral).
2.2 School assignments; reports
2.3 Papers; book chapters; dissertations; theses
3. Textual schemata and mechanisms for organising academic texts
3.1 Macro, meso and microstructural dimensions based on text analysis: some linguistic mechanisms
3.2 The literature review section: rhetoric and strategies
3.3 Issues of bibliographical referencing; uses of scientific authorities citing from credible sources; ways of citing
4. The argumentative and critical dimension of the academic text
4.1 Concepts and types/structures of arguments
4.2 Strategies, effectiveness and construction of arguments
5. Information literacy in preparing academic work: searching and exploring bibliographic databases; bibliographic management tools
Teaching Methods
Given the practical nature of this course, the following will be favoured:
- Presentation, debate, individual work, group work and tutorial guidance.
- Writing, reading, analysis and critical thinking activities (written texts).
- Individual and group research work.
- Individual writing work.
- Group exercises/critical thinking.
Tutorial sessions are designed to help students with specific needs and in the preparation of their individual work.
- Presentation, debate, individual work, group work and tutorial guidance.
- Writing, reading, analysis and critical thinking activities (written texts).
- Individual and group research work.
- Individual writing work.
- Group exercises/critical thinking.
Tutorial sessions are designed to help students with specific needs and in the preparation of their individual work.
Assessment
Assessment is governed by the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora currently in force, namely Article 110, and comprises two modes: continuous assessment and final assessment.
Continuous assessment is the preferred mode and requires students? regular and active participation in the activities carried out as part of the course unit, both in and through independent work, undertaken individually or in groups. The final grade is based on the following assessment components: (i) two individual written tests, each worth 40%; (ii) active and relevant participation in sessions and completion of the proposed practical activities and exercises, either in or as part of independent work, worth 20%.
Final assessment consists of a written examination, worth 100% of the final grade, covering the full syllabus of the course unit.
Under both assessment modes, students are considered to have successfully completed the course unit if they obtain a final grade of 10 or above on a scale of 0 to 20.
If deemed necessary in order to ascertain the extent to which the student has developed the knowledge and competences established for the course unit, the teaching team may require the student to undertake an oral examination, pursuant to paragraph 13 of Article 110 of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora. The conditions set out in paragraph 4 of Article 116 and paragraph 1 of Article 118 of the same Regulations shall be ensured. The oral examination will account for 30% of the final mark for the course unit.
Continuous assessment is the preferred mode and requires students? regular and active participation in the activities carried out as part of the course unit, both in and through independent work, undertaken individually or in groups. The final grade is based on the following assessment components: (i) two individual written tests, each worth 40%; (ii) active and relevant participation in sessions and completion of the proposed practical activities and exercises, either in or as part of independent work, worth 20%.
Final assessment consists of a written examination, worth 100% of the final grade, covering the full syllabus of the course unit.
Under both assessment modes, students are considered to have successfully completed the course unit if they obtain a final grade of 10 or above on a scale of 0 to 20.
If deemed necessary in order to ascertain the extent to which the student has developed the knowledge and competences established for the course unit, the teaching team may require the student to undertake an oral examination, pursuant to paragraph 13 of Article 110 of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora. The conditions set out in paragraph 4 of Article 116 and paragraph 1 of Article 118 of the same Regulations shall be ensured. The oral examination will account for 30% of the final mark for the course unit.
Teaching Staff
- Ana Alexandra Lázaro Vieira da Silva [responsible]
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