Curricular Unit:			Code:
Writing and Editing			885ESED
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Postgraduate	Specialized Journalism	5 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	65
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
Developing journalistic communication techniques for different media platforms, as well as proficiency in editing.
Syllabus:
1. News writing 1.1 Clarity, precision and com conciseness 1.2 Rules of language economy 1.3 Register and discourse types in information 2. News writing for the press 2.1 Citation, description and analysis 2.2 The relationship between text and image 2.3 Analytical journalism in the press 2.4 Opinion journalism in the press 2.5 Chronicles and editorials 3. Writing for the Radio 3.1 Vocal delivery of language 3.2 Spiral discourse 3.3 The use of sound records 3.4 Writing and editing for radio broadcast 3.5 Sound sceneries 4. Writing for TV 4.1 Audiovisual writing 4.2 The use of testimonials 4.3 Writing and editing for TV broadcast 4.4 Live and real-time TV 5. Writing for online broadcast 5.1 Writing in the ‘web’ 5.2 Writing using multimedia tools 5.3 The new grammar of journalism
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The present contents cover the generic areas mentioned in the ‘learning objectives’. In short, we sought to distinguish a set of contents, tools, which are believed to be essential to work with the current media platforms.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Lectures and tutorials. Written essays + oral presentations
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
As this is a postgraduate programme, focused on practice, teaching methods have been designed accordingly. This is precisely what is meant in ‘Teaching methodology’ when we refer to a set of assignments carried out by students but duly supervised, presented and discussed in class.
Reading:
Fidalgo, J. (2004). Em nome do leitor. Coimbra: Minerva. Fowler, R. (1991) Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press. London: Routledge. Franco, G. (2009) Como Escrever para a Web. Austin, Tx: Knight Centre for Journalism in the Americas Richardson, J. E. (2008). Language and Journalism. Journalism Studies, 9:2, 152-160. Sousa, Jorge Pedro (1994) As Notícias. Porto: Universidade Fernando Pessoa Sousa, Jorge Pedro (1994). Elementos de Radiojornalismo e Telejornalismo. Porto: Universidade Fernando Pessoa.