Text Analysis

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course is designed to recognize writing as a tool for critical thinking, as well as for problem framing and solving.

CONTENT

1. Text as a construct
2. The communication model
3. Signifiers and signifieds
4. Written text types
5. Content analysis, summaries and key words
6. Cohesion and coherence
7. Rhetorical appeals and rhetorical analysis
8. Intertextuality