93577 - Workshop on Textual Analysis (A)

Course contents

The workshop is a space for learning and experiencing the written language and aims to guide students through a personal writing practice, experienced in an atmosphere of freedom and expressive awareness.

Writing, a field of action of thought and affection, is configured as an original exercise of language in its various forms and at the same time as a plane of observation of the text in its linguistic and rhetorical aspects. The conquest of a more conscious and profound familiarity with the gestures of writing and reading is inscribed in the perimeter of the work that teachers and professors carry out on the child's language, with precise references to the link between language and literary education present in the National Indications for the first cycle of education curriculum (MIUR, 2012).

Readings/Bibliography

C. Bobin, Abitare poeticamente il mondo, Lecce, AnimaMundi Edizioni, 2019.

E. Cocever, A. Chiantera (eds.), Writing experience in education, Bologna, CLUEB, 1996, pp. 55-88.

B. M. Garavelli, Manuale di retorica, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 159-166; pp. 198-202; pp.216-219.

Teaching methods

 

The workshop combines the analysis of theoretical elements concerning the style and rhetoric of the text with experiments in expressive writing, carried out both individually and in small groups. The writing work starts with readings aloud of selected pieces of literature and children's literature. The first part of the work is dedicated to automatic writing tests and language games, while the subsequent writing activities concern text types (descriptive, narrative, scenic), rhetorical figures (metaphor, anaphora, enumeration), content (experiences, objects, aspects of nature) and ways of activating thought (recollection, observation, fantasy) that aim to strengthen technical writing skills and the recognition of an original and creative use of language, in which words contribute to understanding and at the same time to constructing reality.

For the workshop, stationery is required (pencils, A3 or A4 sheets, pens, pencil or wax paints, erasers, tape, glue) in order to create a small leporello book that will accommodate the various individual tests of expressive writing.

Assessment methods

The method for assessing skills is by writing a final report of a maximum of 2 pages (font Time New Roman, body 12, line spacing 1.5) to be sent to the teacher's e-mail address within 10 days of the end of the workshop.

The objective of the final report is the restitution of the workshop experience both in the theoretical aspects concerning the stylistic and rhetorical elements of the language examined and in the subjective traits (reactions, difficulties or attitudes) linked to the writing practices implemented.

For the purposes of the evaluation

the level of mastery of knowledge of the aspects of the language being observed and analysed; the quality of the in-depth study of the topics covered on the basis of precise bibliographical references to the documents and studies proposed; the degree of clarity and formal accuracy of the paper.

The workshop is worth 1 credit and the assessment has four levels: +1 (very good), 0 (good), -1 (sufficient), rejected (you will have to repeat the workshop attendance).

Office hours

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