TLÜ ÕIS

Textual Analysis and Writing Skills

Course code

GRA6010.HT

old course code

GRA6010

Course title in Estonian

Teksti analüüs ja kirjalik väljendusoskus

Course title in English

Textual Analysis and Writing Skills

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To develop students' communicative competence (linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic) in the reading and writing skills to the CEF level C1.

Brief description of the course

Students are exposed to reading texts from a variety of sources (newspapers, magazines, fiction, non-fiction, academic material, etc). Tasks are designed to develop reading skills such as skimming, scanning, deducing meaning of unknown words from context and identifying attitude. Tasks focus on areas such as lexis, text structure, register and style.
Analysis of layout, text organisation and stylistic features in a range of written text types (letters; short articles on subjects of general interest; reviews of films, books and plays; discursive essays; narrative and descriptive excerpts from fiction and non-fiction). Writing practice in all types. The focus is on producing texts which achieve a given purpose and are target-reader-focused.
Independent work includes text analysis, reading comprehension, and writing exercises.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to read and understand a range of text types from the familiar to the more abstract, reada for gist, detail and specific information;
- can produce written texts for clearly defined social and academic purposes that are logically organised and well-controlled for accuracy and appropriacy.

Teacher

Miriam Mcllfatrick-Ksenofontov

The course is a prerequisite

Irish Literature, History and Culture (GRA6219.HT)

Study programmes containing that course