Among the aims that the program aims to achieve:

– Analytical understanding of a text;

– Decomposition and recomposition of its structure;

– Free imitation of classical models;

– Compliance with rules and criteria useful in the construction of an essay.

By studying participated in a manual, key strategies are proposed for the development of reading and writing. Another side of the course is devoted to the recognition of tricks and secrets masterfully adopted in a systematic and consistent treatment of values that are the basis of writing.

The study of any manual of Italian high school.

In relation to the student discipline you will have to show possession:

– The mastery of basic skills;

– Understanding of the basic concepts of the discipline;

– The ability to use knowledge and concepts to reason according to the logic of the discipline.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

In Blended Learning UniUrb platform.

Teaching

The teaching is structured through lectures of a participatory nature (students are asked to reflect and dialogue, together with the teacher, on specific aspects of the discipline, also through laboratory exercises in the classroom) as well as seminar sessions.

Attendance

No compulsory attendance.

Course books

Calvino, Italo, Six memos for the next millenium, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University Press, 1988, 124 pp. [ISBN: 978-06-7481-040-2]

Piro, Francesco, Manuale di educazione al pensiero critico : comprendere e argomentare, prefazione di Tullio De Marco, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2015, 276 pp. [ISBN 978-88-6342-776-9] 

Assessment

Written test aimed at ascertaining the knowledge, the ability to use them and the critical concepts of the discipline. The evaluation criteria used for the tests are:

– relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the contents of the program;

– level of response articulation;

– adequacy of the disciplinary language used.

The preparation of an individual report, such as development and in-depth analysis of the activities carried out in the classroom, constitutes an element of evaluation.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.

Teaching

The teaching is structured through lectures of a participatory nature (students are asked to reflect and dialogue, together with the teacher, on specific aspects of the discipline, also through laboratory exercises in the classroom) as well as seminar sessions.

Attendance

No compulsory attendance.

Course books

Calvino, Italo, Six memos for the next millenium, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University Press, 1988, 124 pp. [ISBN: 978-06-7481-040-2]

Piro, Francesco, Manuale di educazione al pensiero critico : comprendere e argomentare, prefazione di Tullio De Marco, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2015, 276 pp. [ISBN 978-88-6342-776-9]

Assessment

Written test aimed at ascertaining the knowledge, the ability to use them and the critical concepts of the discipline. The evaluation criteria used for the tests are:

– relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the contents of the program;

– level of response articulation;

– adequacy of the disciplinary language used.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.

Poe, Edgar Allan, La filosofia della composizione, a cura di Luigi Lunari (testo inglese a fronte), Milano, La vita felice, 2012, 61 pp. [ISBN 978-88-7799-441-7]