508799 - ACADEMIC AND POPULAR WRITING

insegnamento

ID:

508799

Durata (ore):

36

CFU:

SSD:

LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE

Anno:

2024

Periodo di attività

Secondo Semestre (24/02/2025 - 15/05/2025)

Obiettivi Formativi

By the end of the course, students are expected to get acquainted with the major differences between academic and popular texts; identify the organizational and lexicogrammatical specificities of English scientific discourse, academic abstracts and research articles; master the most common types of referencing conventions based on the APA citation style; get acquainted with the notions and the language of (dis)ability, inclusion, and accessibility; identify the organizational and lexicogrammatical specificities of the discourse of English audio description for the arts; develop linguistic and textual strategies to write engaging art audio descriptions in the field of archeology (at C1 English CEFR level)

Prerequisiti

B2+ English CEFR level in vocabulary, grammar and reading skills.

Metodi didattici

Lectures, class discussion, practical writing activities and hands-on sessions, students' presentations, guest talks.

Verifica Apprendimento

Attending students will be assessed on class work plus on a written project. Assessment will consider the texts’ complying with the academic and popular writing conventions and meeting the standards of C1 writing accuracy.
Non-attending students will be assessed on a written exam assessing their thorough knowledge of the course content. Assessment will consider the texts’ complying with the academic and popular writing conventions and meeting the standards of C1 writing accuracy.

Testi

Reading list (mandatory)
On academic writing:
APA (American Psychological Association) (2012). Publication Manual, 6th edition. Washington: APA [or any other paper/online edition; e.g. https://apastyle.apa.org/]:
- Chapter 2 Manuscript structure and content;
- Chapter 7 Reference examples; see also Reference List: Basic Rules (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_basic_rules.html)
- Chapter 4 The mechanisms of style > “Punctuation”, or Trask, L. (1997). The Penguin guide to punctuation. London: Penguin.

Coccetta, F. (2016). Access to discourse in English through text analysis. Como-Pavia: Ibis. Chapter 3

On audio description
ADLAB PRO Course Materials (https://www.adlabpro.eu/coursematerials/): Module 1 (core video of units 1, 2, 5, 6); Module 4; Unit 7 of Module 6.
EASIT (2019b). Listenability [Video]. https://transmediacatalonia.uab.cat/easit/unit-3b/element-1/interview-with-professionals-listenability/
Giansante, L.: http://www.lougiansante.org, http://www.writingad.org, http://www.theearleads.weebly.com
Neves, J. (2015). Descriptive guides: Access to museums, cultural venues and heritage sites. In A. Remael, N. Reviers & G. Vercauteren (Eds.), Pictures painted in words. ADLAB audio description guidelines (pp.70-73). Trieste: EUT. [open access] https://www.openstarts.units.it/entities/publication/be626243-8361-4b94-a74e-05224e6120ae/details
Perego, E. (2023). Audio description for the arts: A linguistic perspective. London: Routledge. [Ch. 1, 2, 4]

Reference sources
Audio Description Associates (https://audiodescribe.com/). American association directed by audio describer Joel Snyder. Interesting AD samples are available
The British museum podcast, https://www.britishmuseum.org/the-british-museum-podcast
VocalEyes: Homepage (https://vocaleyes.co.uk/). Excellent British service provider, rich in ADs of diverse cultural content

Further content and a detailed list of readings will be available on the Academic and Popular Writing course webpage on Kiro (idcd.unipv.it). Check the webpage at the end of the course for a comprehensive list of working and studying material.

Contenuti

The course will outline the main organisational and lexicogrammatical features of academic and popular genres. The first part of the course will be devoted to academic writing conventions. It will illustrate the specificities of English scientific discourse, abstracts and academic articles, as well as the most common types of referencing conventions based on the APA citation style. The second part of the course will be devoted to a particular type of popular writing, i.e. art audio description (AD) for people who are blind or visually impaired. It will focus on the notions and the (meta)language of (dis)ability, inclusion and accessibility. It will provide a definition of art AD, and illustrate its main textual and linguistic specificities and writing conventions. Some e-tools for text analysis and self-editing will also be presented as an aid to critical text analysis and writing. Attending students will be asked to contribute with class discussion, critical thinking tasks and practical writing activities assigned during the course.

Lingua Insegnamento

INGLESE

Altre informazioni

This programme refers to the current academic year. In case students fail to obtain the credits within the deadlines, they will have to follow the new programme.