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 "Regulamento Académico da UÉ, 2022/23 (artº 110º), which stipulates the following two formats: continuous and final.
Continuous assessment is preferred as it includes students' active participation in classwork and/or homework (individual or in group). This continuous assessment is based on the following elements: (i) two individual written tests (40 per cent each); (ii) relevant participation in and carrying out practical exercises in class, and at home (20 per cent).
Assessment by final exam: one exam (100 per cent), covering the whole subject. Only students with a mark of 10 or more are approved.
Continuous assessment is preferred as it includes students' active participation in classwork and/or homework (individual or in group). This continuous assessment is based on the following elements: (i) two individual written tests (40 per cent each); (ii) relevant participation in and carrying out practical exercises in class, and at home (20 per cent).
Assessment by final exam: one exam (100 per cent), covering the whole subject. Only students with a mark of 10 or more are approved.
Teaching Staff
- Ana Alexandra Lázaro Vieira da Silva [responsible]
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