Expressão e Argumentação (not translated)
Code
711091143
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Luís Fagundes Duarte, Maria Antónia Coutinho
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a. To acquire the necessary competences for a good performance in writing and speech.
b. Training the making of na argument and the orientation amongst different arguments.
c. Training analysing skills, procedures and good manners for debating and confronting arguments both on written texts and live discussion.
d. To preserve and masters methodological procedures on literary inquiry.
e. To practice and expand specific skills for making an argument in the field of literary studies.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Writing and live discussion regarding the argumentation: the case of Socratic dialogue.
2. To write an argument, case studies: analyzing exemplar mistakes and flaws and learn how to avoid them.
3. Making an argument according to a given topic: exercises and collective analysis.
4. Making an argument in literary studies; truth, opinion, subjectivity. Impressionism ans its consequences.
Bibliography
1. Manuel Rodrigues Lapa, Estilística da Língua Portuguesa, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 8.ª ed., 1975.
2. João Andrade Peres, Telmo Móia, Áreas Críticas da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 1995.
3. Gerald Graff, Cathy Bikerstein, They Say I Say. The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Nova Iorque, Norton, 2006.
4. Umberto Eco, Como se Faz uma Tese em Ciências Humanas, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1995.
Teaching method
Occasional lectures; most of the time, classes will be based on practical exercises and colectiv analysis.
Evaluation method
Final exam: 40%
Midterm paper: 40%
Brife papers and cooperation on practical classes: 20%.