Academic Writing and Editing in Spanish I (Redacción y edición académica en español I) 3305-RTNH1-1U
Class work and students' independent work will be based on the following list of topics and corresponding exercises:
1. How do spoken and written academic discourse serve each other? Students present their interests orally, in a scientific manner.
2. Characteristics of academic and scientific discourse. Students compose a short written description of its selected, detailed, features. Than, the student’s texts will be discussed, both in terms of their content and form.
3. The existential and pragmatic significance of writing. Class participants present their favorite passages from their bachelor's theses.
4. Forum on scientific texts. Students present a selected article in the form of a summary that could be part of a scientific paper.
5. What mistakes do people make when writing academic/ scientific texts? What positive contribution can they make to the creative process? Discussion of the form and content of proposed answers
6. How to scientifically address areas of reality typically discussed in everyday language (weather, shopping, cleaning, the “magic of Christmas” etc.). Presentation of solutions prepared by students. 7. How to criticize without judging? Writing critical interpretations of both canonical and popular culture texts. Selection of the most persuasive text.
8. Proofreading of academic texts. Each student receives a short text to revise.
9. Overcoming creative impasse: discussion with the attention paid to academic argumentation, including avoidance of general statements, colloquialisms, and judgments.
10. Relations between form and content in academic/ scientific texts - this issue will be addressed each time the texts are discussed.
The above plan can be modified based on the needs and interests of the students.
Classes will be preceded by an introduction to the topic being discussed, allowing students to prepare a text relevant to it. Writing practice will be regularly utilized during classes, to the extent necessary to support the dynamics of group work.
With regard to the use of artificial intelligence, there will be fallowed general guidelines applied at the University of Warsaw and provided at the link https://dokumenty.uw.edu.pl/dziennik/DURK/Lists/Dziennik/Attachments/134/DURK.2023.98.UURK.98.pdf will be respected.
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Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
The graduate knows and understands:
S1K_W01/S2K_W01 – the specificity of the language used by authors conducting research in the humanities and, in particular, Iberian philology, with an emphasis on distance from everyday language, the relationship between subjective and objective attitudes, and the need to avoid value judgments and general statements.
S1K_W05/S2K_W05 – selected phenomena and styles of thinking that have shaped contemporary humanities discourse (such as the crisis of experience, transgressive and avant-garde activities, the deconstruction of binary dichotomies, the suspension of the "grand narrative," etc.).
S1K_W06/S2K_W06 – techniques for describing the research traditions to which belong the authors discussed.
Graduates will be able to:
S1K_U02/S2K_U02 – prepare an answer to a question related to key aspects of scientific language characteristics, proofread a scientific text in reference to them, find and summarize a scientific text relevant to the given topic.
S1K_U03/S2K_U03 – distinguish the scientific meaning of a given term from the meanings found in everyday language and included in language dictionaries.
S1K_U05/S2K_U05 – use the tool of relating specialist knowledge to experience-based perception, enabling to read and understand texts included in the primary and secondary bibliographies of scientific works and to write understandable comments on them.
The graduate is ready to:
S1K_K01/ S2K_K01 – argue for solutions contained in the work of other participants of the scientific discourse, thanks to te reflection, ongoing during classes, that highlights the strengths of each each work written.
Assessment criteria
- Class attendance (there are allowed two unexcused absences; each additional unexcused absence will result in a one-point reduction of the final result): 20 points.
- Activity: answering the teacher's questions, commenting on the texts discussed, submitting texts on a given topic, suggesting texts and assignments, presenting the results of one's own research, volunteering to present the results of the work done in class: 60 points. Each individual activity will be worth 1 to 20 points.
- final essay: explaining a concept important to one's own research by using scientific language (2500-3000 characters with spaces): 20 points.
Practical placement
Not applicable.
Bibliography
The texts included in the bibliography are not intended to be read obligatorily. The list below shall constitute a source of insights useful for research in humanities and a collection of examples of good practice in the use of scientific language. All texts will be made available to students in electronic format.
Angosto de Guzmán, Diana, „El oro como material cultural en el arte contemporáneo. Una aproximación a la antropología del material”, Materialidades. Perspectivas en cultura material, vol. 4/2016, s. 40-61.
Attridge, Derek, „Esa extraña institución llamada literatura Una entrevista de Derek Attridge con Jacques Derrida”, BOLETIN/18 del Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, październik 2017, s. 115-150.
Barad, Karen, Cuestión de materia, Holobionte Ediciones, Barcelona 2003.
Baudrillard, Jean, Cultura y simulacro, Editorial Kairós, Barcelona 1978.
Benjamin, Walter, La obra de arte en la época de su reproductibilidad técnica, Editorial Itaca, México 2003.
Eco, Umberto, Cómo se hace una tesis, Editorial Gedisa, Barcelona 2002.
Foster, Hal, El retorno de lo real, Ediciones Akal, Madrid 2001.
Hall, Edward T., La dimensión oculta, siglo xxi editores, Buenos Aires 2003.
Lyotrad, Jean-François, La posmodernidad explicada a los niños, Editorial Gedisa, Barcelona 1994.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Sobre la certeza, Editorial Gedisa, Barcelona 2003.