116-461 French IV: Honours Language I

116-036 French III:Language II and admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in French.

This subject is intended primarily to foster students' writing skills and their skills in close textual analysis. It moves beyond grammatical correction in order to focus on questions of style and register. A wide variety of genres and registers are analysed. Students then make use of these analyses in order to produce short texts of their own in the register/style studied. Particular attention is paid to French academic writing. Students should complete the course with a mastery of a wide range of structures and vocabulary, pertinent to the registers and genres studied in class, and an ability to analyse, discuss and use complex grammatical and discourse structures at sentence and text level.

• have fostered linguistic competence, have an ability to analyse, discuss and use complex grammatical and discourse structures at sentence and text level

A 30-minute class presentation of 1500 words subsequently written up 30% (due one week after the presentation), regular writing exercises equivalent to 2000 words 40% (due at regular intervals during semester) and a final test equivalent to 1500 words in textual analysis and writing 30% (held during the examination period).

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