Written Communication 2
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
This subject is intended to provide students with the tools and knowledge on oral and written communication that university learning requires and encourages an advanced level of language mastery.
No pre-course requirements are needed to enrol in this subject.
1. Acquire oral communication skills.
2. Acquire written communication skills.
3. Develop techniques for public speaking.
4. Acquire the ability to understand, analyse and synthesise.
5. Ability to express one's ideas and arguments in an orderly and coherent way both in oral and written form (written and oral techniques).
6. Develop critical analysis skills.
7. Acquire skills for autonomous learning.
Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. Communication.
3. The use of Spanish Language
4. Written Communication Skills
Argumentation.
5. Academic writting
6. Oral Communication Skills
Persuasion and Metadiscourse. How to deliver a speech.
7. Rhetoric
Basics Concepts
8. Introduction to Critical Thinking
Learning methodology
1. Lecture method.
2. Self-learning.
3. Debates.
4. Learning through the creation and development of work.
5. Texts analysis.
The competences of the subject will be assessed from the oral and written exercises performed by the student in the classroom and exercises on readings (50%), for which preparation will be required (Also a drafted book review).
The final exam will account for 50%.
Only three class absences will be allowed. The fourth and following absence will be penalised.
If students do not pass first exam, they can only get 50 points in the followings tests.
If the student fails in the first sitting, the maximum score that he/she can obtain in the following will be 50 points.
(To study)
Dossier de l'assignatura i documents del campus virtual.
(Bibliography)
Aristóteles. (1998). Retórica. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Casado, Manuel. (2012). El castellano actual: usos y normas. 10.ª ed. revisada. Pamplona: Eunsa.
Cassany, Daniel (2002). La cocina de la escritura. Barcelona: Anagrama.
Jiménez, Ricardo-María (2016). Escribir bien es de justicia. 2.ª edición. Cizur Menor: Aranzadi Thomson-Reuters.
(readings)
García Márquez, Gabriel. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba.
Weston, Anthony. (2011). Las claves de la argumentación. Edició actualitzada. Barcelona: Ariel. (Es redactarà una recensió).
Delibes, Miguel. Las ratas. Barcelona: Destino.
Unamuno, Miguel de. Amor y pedagogía.