Class Writing Skills

The UC of the first year of the Degree in Educational Sciences / Social Education find the main reasons for its relevance and opportunity in the relevance that scientific knowledge assumes in all professional fields. They intend to be an area of promotion of critical thinking in a Social Education course since its areas of intervention are situated in terms of the uses of the Portuguese language, namely in terms of comprehension and written expression, and learning and handling scientific work procedures.

I.       The Portuguese Language in the World

a.      the history of the Portuguese language

b.      Lusophone cultures

c.      linguistic diversity

d.      the role of the Portuguese language today

e.      technologies of written culture

II.      Textual and discursive typologies

a.      informative, appealing and argumentative texts

b.      thesis, antithesis and arguments

c.      argumentative diversity

d.      textual and discursive markers

e.      aesthetic language resources

III.     Exercises in linguistic and textual practice

IV.     The differentiation between Social Sciences and their objects of study

V.      The stages of research in Social Sciences

VI.     The steps of the scientific procedure

VII.    Information processing techniques and tools

VIII.   The instruments used in the different types of research (qualitative, quantitative) and the treatment of data

IX.     Interpretative syntheses based on the results

X.      Presentation of the result of the investigation carried out

The curricular unit is developed simultaneously with the UC of Methodology of Scientific Work with three teachers working simultaneously in the classroom.

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