Academic writing

5 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese

This module follows a theoretical-practical approach and its main learning outcomes are:

  • to recognize and produce different types of academic genres (e.g. review, opinion article, abstracts, academic essay, report, etc.) ;
  • to improve skills of writing and interpretation in academic work, avoiding plagiarism;
  • to read and write complex texts, analysing and inferring the author’s point of view.
  • to organize and to structure arguments in order to communicate complex ideas in clear and effective way;
  • to demonstrate critical thinking and reading skills by writing expositions and argumentative texts.