Teaching code

4S007366

Teacher

Andrea Capuzzo

Coordinator

Andrea Capuzzo

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

NN - -

Period

CuCi 2 A dal Feb 19, 2024 al Mar 29, 2024.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The Journalistic Writing Laboratory is dedicated to newspaper articles in its different forms. At the end of the lessons, students will become familiar with the different types of journalistic prose (news, investigation, interview, reportage, costume article, editorial, etc.) and will be able to write an original piece of writing that complies with needs and standards of the textual genre.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Good knowledge of the Italian language, interest in writing in its various types, willingness to actively participate in lessons.

Program

LABORATORY ARGUMENT
Write a newspaper article.
CONTENTS
1. Analysis of the different types of journalistic article (news, report, interview, reportage, article of custom, editorial, etc.)
2. Identification of communicative, linguistic and expressive techniques adapted to the various types of journalistic writing.

Didactic methods

Lectures, delivered in presence, and exercises carried out through written papers.
The reading and guided analysis of significant examples of journalistic prose will be accompanied by the writing and discussion of articles written by the students. The texts used will be uploaded to the e-learning platform. Bibliographic references will be communicated each time during the lessons.
N.B. The course is reserved for attending students only. For educational reasons, no more than 60 students will be admitted to attend the Laboratory, in order of enrolment. To take the final exam it will be necessary to have attended at least seven lessons out of nine. Attendance will be validated by the receipt by the teacher on the e-learning platform of at least seven articles out of the nine scheduled lessons.

Learning assessment procedures

The final exam is reserved only for students who have attended the laboratory face to face and will consist of a written test. This test will focus on the forms of journalistic writing examined during the course.
Students will have to write a journalistic article of a specific type starting from one of the tracks proposed by the teacher; they will therefore have to demonstrate familiarity with the types of writing analyzed, trying, at the time of writing their article, to differentiate their style according to the topic dealt with, the communication purpose required and the audience to which the action of the information source is directed.
There is also an intermediate test, which will focus on the first part of the course and which will allow access to the final exam.

Evaluation criteria

1. relevance to the assigned topic;
2. richness of content, coherence and organic nature of the discourse;
3. morphosyntactic correctness and lexical property.
4. stylistic register appropriate to the textual genre used.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The evaluation will be given by the simple approval or non-approval of the final paper (which will be uploaded to the platform at the end of the lessons) based on its compliance with the writing criteria highlighted in the course. The evaluation of the final test will be followed by the verbalization of the outcome of the Journalistic Writing Laboratory, according to the proposed calendar.

Exam language

Italiano

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