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| COMU0031-1 | Technical writing and argumentation
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Marc Vanesse |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Just like design or informatics, the mastery of writing requires a period of learning. This course is conceived as an initiation to techniques of journalistic writing, and it is made up of three closely related parts. During the first part, more theoretical, students will learn to distinguish and master the main registers of newspaper writing (factual reporting, synthesis, narrative, description...). Next, in a more practical vein, students will write texts that follow the conventions associated with different journalistic genres (writing dispatches, building up reporting on a story, writing up an interview, painting a picture from a particular angle...). Finally, in the third part, students will learn techniques of argumentation, often useful in editing polemic texts (editorial, commentaries, humorous articles). |
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| Course objective : | - Evaluation. The primary objective of the course concerns the relationship between the student and writing. His or her writing. Through a number of preliminary exercises the students will test their knowledge and measure their progress. They will improve their mastery of syntax, their vocabularies, their spelling, their sentence structure, their continuity, their precision, their exactitude...
- Imitation. Through frequent reading of newspaper articles, and through class discussion and analysis of examples, students will test and refine their techniques of journalistic expression. |
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| Prerequisites : | - Proficiency in oral and written expression (tutoring possible)
- Active curiosity about current events
- Frequent reader of newspapers and frequent consumer of audiovisual media |
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| Workshops : | Written exercises will be assigned during practice sessions and these will help prepare students for the final evaluation. |
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| Organization : | Number of classroom hours and time period: 30 hours during the second term.
Time and place: Salle Wittert (place du 20 août), Mondays from 14h15 to 16h15. |
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| Written notes : | - Transparencies shown in class are available online.
- Readings highly recommended:
Yves AGNES, Manuel de journalisme, Paris, La Découverte, Coll. « Guide Grands Repères », 2002 ; Philippe BRETON, L'argumentation dans la communication, La Découverte, coll. « Repères », Paris, 2003 ; Jean-Luc MARTIN-LAGARDETTE, Le guide de l'écriture journalistique, Paris, La Découverte, Coll. « Guides », 2005. |
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| Assessment : | - A QCM over theoretical topics covered in class
- A personal writing project |
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| Contacts : | Teacher: Marc Vanesse, instructor
Département des Arts et Sciences de la communication
Place du 20 août, 7, 2e étage
Tel : 04-366.29.57
(Marc.Vanesse@ulg.ac.be)
Assistants
- Jenifer Devresse
(J.Devresse@ulg.ac.be)
04-366.54.95
- François Colmant
04-366.38.60
(fcolmant@ulg.ac.be)
Secretary
04-366.32.79 |
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