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TL1501: WORKING WITH TEXTS (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:00


Course Overview

This course will explore and examine the different ways in which we, as translators and interpreters, work with texts in our professional lives. It will consider what is meant by a “text”, and deal with the many different varieties of text and their individual challenges for the translator, as well as allow students to develop strategies for dealing with these challenges when they face them.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 1
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Zhu Zhu

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2
  • Any Undergraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course will:

  • increase students' awareness of the relationship between text and meaning
  • increase students' awareness of how elements of style manisfest themselves in texts
  • Increase students' awareness of cohesion and coherence in texts
  • Develop students' ability to analyse texts

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Course Journal

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will be able to match text with function
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will be able to identify elements of cohesion and coherence
ProceduralApplyStudents will be able apply strategies and tools to identify salient features of a text

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks 10 Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will be able to match text with function
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will be able to identify elements of cohesion and coherence
ProceduralApplyStudents will be able apply strategies and tools to identify salient features of a text

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

2 x essays - 750 words each

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Two essays - 750 words each
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyStudents will be able apply strategies and tools to identify salient features of a text
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will be able to identify elements of cohesion and coherence
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will be able to match text with function
 

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