Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Communication Skills I: Written Expression

• code 10618
• course 1
• term Anual
• type FB
• credits 6

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Head instructor

Dra. Asunción VERDERA - averdera@uic.es

Office hours

30 minutes once the class is finished

Written wording has been - and would have to remain - one of the basic activities of university work; both those who begin their studies in academic life and those who have already completed them should spend time writing (and reading). Information technologies have multiplied the opportunities of reading and the uses of writing.

This subject aims, in the first place, that the student of education assumes a high domain of written expression and of reading comprehension, and to become an expert in these two skills of communicative competence, both in Catalan and Spanish. Secondly, it wants to offer a variety of strategies and resources to foster taste and habit by reading texts that relate to the contents of the career and also to encourage them to develop the necessary skills to develop through simple research writing about educational issues. Third, they will strive to improve their writing skills, especially those associated with basic forms: explain, narrate, describe, argue...

1) Increase the level of communicative competence in written language, and specifically in writing different types of texts (expository, argumentative, descriptive school genres, stories ...) and reading.
2) Understand the basic theory of writing on learning so that students are able to analyze their own attitudes to the composition of a text.
3) Strengthen the regulatory knowledge and use of Catalan and Spanish.
4) Integrate information technology and communication in the teaching-learning in the development of teaching and their own personal development.

• CEM-43 - To foment speaking and writing skills.
• CEM-44 - To learn and master techniques of oral and written expression.
• CEM-46 - To understand the transition from oral to written expression and be aware of the different registers and uses of language.
• CET-1 - Interpersonal responsibility: to be aware of professional performance and influence on students. To have the skills and knowledge to manage group processes and communication for good collaboration with and between students.
• CET-4 - Expertise in the subject taught and teaching methodologies: to have the required knowledge in the subject taught and to know which teaching methods should be applied to create a good learning environment where students can acquire the cultural baggage they need to live in society. and to do so in an up-to-date, professional and systematic manner.
• CET-7 - To promote responsibility in terms of professional development: to analyse, reflect on and develop points of view about the profession and teaching skills, to know how to make these clear and how to bring them up to date.
• CG-01 - To integrate information and communication technologies in teaching and learning activities, teaching management and professional development.
• CG-02 - To communicate clearly and correctly in the language of instruction (Catalan and Spanish), orally and in writing, in accordance with level C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).

8. Plan the texts produced and used the basic techniques of research, selection and organization of information in the official languages of Catalonia.
9. Adapt the information to the type of text and the communicative situation
10. Progressively develops the overall meaning of the text
11. Make sentences communicatively effective, clear style, understanding and creative.
12. Properly use punctuation marks, connectors, pronouns, etc. To semantically relate sentences
13. Distinguishes the main information from the secondary school.
14. It detects the unjustified repetition of ideas, information gaps and conflicting or irrelevant information.
15.Use correct grammar correction tools as a quality orientation element.
16. Integrates information and communication technologies into teaching-learning activities, teaching management and professional development
17. Develops a constant attitude of updating regarding multilingualism and literature.
18. He detects sexist language in literature and knows how to correct it.

9. The process of composing a text. Planning.
10. The search, selection and organization of information. Grouping of ideas into paragraphs.
11. Typology and textual genres and text sequences.
12. The consistency of information and thematic progression.
13. The construction of the phrase.
14. Punctuation.
15. Connection.
16. The reference. Grammatical mechanisms. The lexical cohesion and the value of the common vocabulary.
17. Reading Strategies.
18. Strategies conceptual proofreading.

The main methodologies and educational activities of the course consists of the expository method, cooperative learning, and problem solving exercises, text commentary, study and group work, lectures and practical study and autonomous individual and personalized attention to students.

The evaluation of this subject is continuous and in person. It will be necessary to show that they have acquired learning outcomes, through the delivery and execution of the activities integrated in the following results:

1. Group and individual academic writing guide (25%).

2. Magazine of education or communication (25%)

3. Written proof (40%)

Attitude will be taken into account - knowing how to be and knowing how to be - of the student: autonomy, responsibility, capacity of group and individual work (10%)

Llengua catalana

• Curs de llengua catalana, Nivell C, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Justícia, 2008

www20.gencat.cat/docs/Adjucat/Documents/ARXIUS/nivell_C_solucionari.pdf

• Gramàtica de la llengua catalana de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans

http://www.iecat.net/institucio/seccions/Filologica/gramatica

• Diccionari de la llengua catalana de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans

http://dlc.iec.cat

• Publicacions d’assessorament lingüístic del Consorci per a la Normalització Lingüística de Sabadell

www.cpnl.cat/xarxa/cnlsabadell/publicacions.html

• Servei Lingüístic de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

www.uoc.edu/serveilinguistic

• Recursos per aprendre català, en paper  i en línia

www14.gencat.cat/llc/AppJava/index.jsp/__ac0x3llc0x3AppJava0x2Autoservei!A/__pm0x3llc0x3AppJava0x2Autoservei!A_view?parameterFilter=005+Sufici%E8ncia&tipusFont=Bibliografia&idFont=1872&tipusCerca=cerca.bibliografies&parameterFieldLlista=DOCUMENT%2FNIVELL_APRENENTATGE&input_cercar=*&suport=&method=cerca_generica&database=P_BIBLIOGRAFIA&numeroResultat=1&parameterField=DOCUMENT%2FNIVELL_APRENENTATGE&numPagina=1&idHit=426621&parameterFilterLlista=005+Sufici%E8ncia&action=CercaPortals

• Santiago Pey, Diccionari de sinònims i antònims, Barcelona: Teide, 2002.

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Lengua castellana

DICCIONARIO PANHISPÁNICO DE DUDAS;   RAE

Ed. Espasa Calpe; Madrid 2005   

NUEVA GRAMÁTICA DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA; RAE

Ed. Espasa Calpe; Madrid 2010

DICCIONARIO DE LA RAE; RAE Y DRAE

Ed Espasa Calpe (20 Edición)

DICCIONARIO DE USO DEL ESPAÑOL; María Moliner

Ed Gredos, 3ª Edición, Madrid, 2007

ANÁLISIS MORFOLÓGICO, ”TEORÍA Y PRÁCTICA”; Leonardo Gómez Torrego. Ed. SM, Madrid,  2007

Contiene un repaso completo de la morfología de la lengua castellana y puede servir para cotejar el correcto uso de cada palabra. 

TEXTOS EXPOSITIVOS-EXPLICATIVOS Y ARGUMENTATIVOS; Teodoro Álvarez Angulo. Ed Octaedro, Madrid 2001

LA COCINA DE LA ESCRITURA; Daniel Cassany

Ed. Anagrama, Colección Argumentos. Barcelona 1995

Es un manual básico sobre la teoría y la práctica de la correcta escritura.

EL TALLER DE LA NOVELA; Francisco Rincón y Juan Sánchez Enciso

Ed. Teide, Barcelona, 1986 

REPASAR LA ESCRITURA; Daniel Cassany 

Ed Graó. Barcelona, 1993

Buenas normas didácticas para aprender a corregir lo escrito. 

TÉCNICAS DE ESCRITURA; E. Coromina y C. Rubio 

Ed Teide, Barcelona, 1989 

Buen manual para consolidar y repasar el correcto dominio de las frases, la puntuación, la construcción de un texto con coherencia y cohesión. 

EL TALLER DE FILOSOFÍA: INTRODUCCIÓN A LA ESCRITURA FILOSÓFICA; Jaime Nubiola. Ed EUNSA, Colec. Astrolabio, Pamplona 2006. 

Resulta particularmente interesante para la materia leer el capítulo II 

HUMANISMO: LOS BIENES INVISIBLES; Juan Luís Lorda 

Ed Rialp, Madrid, 2009 

Se recomienda la lectura del capítulo V (“El amor a la palabra”) 

ORTOGRAFÍA CASTELLANA; David Fernández 

Ed. castellnou