COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROFESSIONAL WRITING AND TRANSLATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEV 6007 PROFESSIONAL WRITING AND TRANSLATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Translation Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR NAFIZE SIBEL GÜZEL

Offered to

Translation Studies

Course Objective

This course aims to cater for the document writing requirements of a variety of professions. Document types such as press releases, web content and business reports will be produced, analyzed, evaluated and interpreted and the use of technology will be highlighted as a means of production and publication. Writing activities will cover such areas as writing for organisational management, writing for the media, writing for the web, writing for human resources, and writing for business.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students should be familiar with a range of document types from a variety of professional contexts
2   Students should be familiar with a range of document types from a variety of professional contexts
3   Students should produce professional documents of various types to the standards defined by the European Commission
4   Students should be able to work collaboratively using ICT to produce professional documents

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to written discourse
2 Types of Professional writing
3 Writing press releases for the media
4 Writing press releases for the media
5 Writing for the web
6 Writing for the web
7 Writing business reports
8 Writing business reports
9 writing for organisational management, taking minutes
10 writing for organisational management, taking minutes
11 Writing for human resources
12 Writing for human resources
13 the use of technology
14 Summary of the term

Recomended or Required Reading

Bax, S. 2011. Discourse and genre: analysing language in context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bhatia, V. 2004. Worlds of written discourse. London and New York: Continuum.
Gutmann, J. 2013. Taking minutes of meetings. 3rd edition. London, Philadelphia and New Delhi: Kogan Page Limited.
Jacobs, G. 1999.Preformulating the news: an analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Marsen, S. 2013.Professional Writing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Various internet sources

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instruction, discussion, question-answer, portfolio

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dilek INAN, dilekinan@hotmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 3 33
Student Presentations 2 3 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 11 3 33
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
Project Preparation 2 8 16
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 242

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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