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 short literary texts ("cursiefjes" as they are called in Dutch);
- 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

Reading : study of more formal and literary text types
Writing: argumentative essay writing

Content and teaching methods

Reading/Writing II : Dutch for Academic Purpose.
Introduction to formal academic text types.
Analysis of their lexical, grammatical, syntactic, stylistic and pragmatic features/Reading and writing exercise sessions.

- 30 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.

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;

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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