Aims

To acquire advanced skills in reading and writing. At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- accurately understand texts of an advanced level, even technical or literary texts;
- identify and explain the technical and rhetorical means used by the writers (at the lexical, grammatical, phraseological, stylistic and pragmatic level);
- give a coherently organized written summary of fact and arguments found in different written sources;
- produce clear and structured written documents of a relatively formal character (official letters, essays, literary analyses, etc.). Particular attention will be given to developing arguments and to critical personal reasoning.

Main themes

1. Reading : progressive study of specific literary texts; we shall pay particular attention to the expression of ideas, and the structure and style of the texts under consideration;
2. Writing: practical writing exercises; we shall pay particular attention to developing arguments and personal critical reasoning.

Content and teaching methods

15 hours of lectures: detailed lexical, grammatical, syntaxic, phraseologic, stylistic and pragmatic particularities of formal texts; methods of academic argumentation.
15 tutorial hours to put the different theoretical approaches into practice and integrate the different aspects of the course.
x hours of study and individual work, in particular:
- personal and systematic study of the vocabulary contained in the documents considered;
- preliminary preparation of the texts;
- redaction of documents;
- complementary exercises of correction in self-learning
- updating of personal notes, revision, memorization.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation : Written exam in June.



Course Holder/Course Supervision :

Supervision by a professor of the GERM Department; tutorial by an assistant who takes part in the evaluation.

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