2022/2023

Основы создания, интерпретации и редактирования текста

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 4 модуль

Онлайн-часы: 20

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Чернецова Екатерина Владимировна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 30

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course consists of two components: 1) to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to write and edit both essays and short fiction; 2) to explore key theoretical approaches to the study and interpretation of texts. The aim of the course is to provide students with the tools needed to write elegant prose in various genres with a view to improving overall writing competence. In practice, this entails closely analysing essays and short stories written by some of the masters of the form (with a focus on 20th–21st centuries), as well as learning about key editing strategies used by said authors. The course assignments have been designed with a view to mastering register, form and key linguistic elements most fitting to the communication purpose. Regarding the theory component of the course, students will learn to think more critically about genre, audience, and the ways in which a text’s form is both a constraint and a possibility for its author. Appropriate for Year-1 MA students, this course is intended to enhance reading, writing and editing skills; enrich vocabulary; unpack complex grammatical constructions; and encourage thought-provoking seminar discussions. Having completed this course, students are expected to master the fundamentals of good editing practice; understand key interpretative approaches to texts; and, finally, produce their own nonfictional essays and fictional stories.