Written Communication

Code Cours
2223-ISTC-L1A-UE4-ATEX
Language of instruction
French, English
Teaching content
UE4
Training officer(s)
BM.FLOUREZ
Stakeholder(s)
BM.FLOUREZ
Level
Bachelor
Program year
Period

Présentation

Prerequisite
In order to follow this course, students need a good command of the French language (grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary) and an adequate knowledge of the main styles and stylistic devices and how to use them.
Goal
- Identifying and expressing clearly an idea / a thesis / a message / a concept.
- Writing a clear and precise summary, analysis, or synthesis.
- Acquiring the key tools and methods for analysing and designing texts.
- Designing and writing a detailed outline for a critical review.
- Being able to swiftly express ideas in writing, responding to various requests and situations, including writing a short article.

This course develops the following professional skills:
- Understanding, analysing and interpreting one’s environment (general knowledge), including the global context.
- Designing and presenting a through-the-line communication strategy: drawing it up, presenting and defending it (being able to justify the choices made);
- Developing your personality with an emphasis on values of integrity, open-mindedness, tolerance, and respect.
- Applying “principles” to every action: diligence, autonomy, interdisciplinarity, innovation, inventiveness.
- Complying with work deadlines and constraints.
Presentation
- Analysing a theme, a text, a lecture.
- Distinguishing between the wording (or the apparent meaning) and the underlying ideas.
- Defining the terms of a theme (setting definitions).
- Highlighting a central question or a particularly relevant interest around a given theme.
- Identifying arguments, finding examples and counterexamples.
- Sorting out and synthetising information, assessing its accuracy and pertinence.
- Formulating a new idea clearly.
- Gaining a good command of the main stylistic devices used in communication.

Modalités

Organization
Type Amount of time Comment
Face to face
15,00
Independent study
Travail personnel indicatif 15,00 Le travail personnel doit être régulier (2 à 3 heures par semaine).
Overall student workload 30,00
Evaluation
Control type Duration Amount Weighting
Continuous assessment
2,00 1 40,00
Final Exam
1,30 1 60,00
TOTAL 100,00

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