Learning objectives
The objective of the course is to refine the skills necessary for effective written communication (especially in relation to cohesion, coherence, informativeness) with full mastery of registers, communicative contexts, and appropriate linguistic tools.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course focuses on the use of the Italian language in the context of oral and written communication. The central topics will be: communication theory; orality and writing; text types; text construction.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Bibliography and other teaching aids will be provided during the course.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and exercitations (analysis of several important texts and writing production). Individual and groups Skype meetings for written works revision.For the enrolled students a tutoring service, provided by PhD students, will be available on request throughout the course (Project POT 2023-25).An optional collective writing exercise is also planned.
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment will be performed by oral exam anda large set of written tests. The student should achieve the passing score when he proves to know the different kind of language and to own the skills necessary for effective writing (including usage, mechanics, sentence structure, logic organization, and style, as well as other rhetorical strategies and critical language).
Assessment is based on the following elements: text comprehension, lexical property, linguistic coherence and cohesion; ability to construct simple and complex texts (synthesis, paraphrase, argumentative text).
- Insufficiency is determined by serious lack of most of the above elements;
- grades 18-23/30 correspond to an acceptable level of understanding the text, and setting up the deliverables;
- grades 24-25/30 correspond to more than sufficient performance;
- grades 26-27/30 correspond to good execution;
- grades 28-30/30 correspond to an excellent performance and 30/30 cum laude an excellent one.
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Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
This teaching contributes to the realization of the UN goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
