Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Institutional Center for Languages ​​and Translation (NILT/SINTER) launched the Portuguese as a foreign language course “Aspects of academic writing in Brazilian Portuguese: abstract, review and scientific article”.  Registrations are open from 15 to 31 March 2022 and classes will take place from 18 April to 7 May.

The course is being offered to foreign or Brazilians students, researchers and professors who may need an introduction to academic written production in Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to enable the participants to produce quality academic papers in Brazilian Portuguese, providing them with formal, linguistic and argumentative elements necessary for the writing process.

Course content:

• Academic genres: abstract, review, article.
• General characteristics of academic writing: conciseness, clarity, objectivity, impersonality.
• Strategies to maintain impersonality in academic writing.
• Textual cohesion and coherence: connectors, modals and anaphoric reference.
• Academic article and its structure: form and content aspects.

The course is structured into three modules, totaling 16 hours, and it has 100 places.  The classes will be online and the course content and activities will be available on Moodle. To be approved at the end of the course, participants must obtain a minimum grade of 6.0. Participants who complete the mandatory activities with the minimum grade will receive a certificate issued by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), valid within the Brazilian territory.

Click here to register.

If you have any questions, please send them to cbfaveri@gmail.com or karollsrolim@gmail.com.