The course aims at improving students’ reading and writing skills focusing on technical-scientific texts. Such skills are particularly important in research as well as in scientific dissemination. To this purpose, during the laboratory students will be guided in the critical reading of the scientific literature, to analyze the distinctive features of academic texts and the main techniques of scientific writing in the field of communication sciences. At the end of the course, students will be able to comprehend, project and write the contents of a scientific paper.
teacher profile teaching materials
A. IACONA, L’argomentazione, Einaudi, Torino 2005.
Additional teaching materials will be provided in class.
Mutuazione: 20710653 LABORATORIO DI SCRITTURA SCIENTIFICA - LM in Scienze Cognitive della Comunicazione e dell'Azione LM-92 Pitillo Federica
Programme
The course is divided into two parts: the first part will be dedicated to the critical reading of scientific literature, to analyze the distinctive characteristics of academic texts and the main techniques of scientific writing in the field of communication sciences. In the second part, it will analyze how to build a clear and effective scientific essay, organizing the order of the argument and its practical rules (syntax, punctuation, style). At the end of the course the students will be able to structure and to write a scientific essay.Core Documentation
M. SANTAMBROGIO, Manuale di scrittura (non creativa), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008.A. IACONA, L’argomentazione, Einaudi, Torino 2005.
Additional teaching materials will be provided in class.
Type of delivery of the course
Face-to-face lesson and distance lesson.Type of evaluation
The evaluation will be based on the exercises carried out during the course and on the ideation and realization of a scientific essay.