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Handbook of Postgraduate Studies – 2004LING955*** Language TeachingMethodologies4 pg cpThis unit explores approaches to language teaching; lessonand program planning; developing language skills;classroom management; materials evaluation and selection;technological aids to language teaching/learning;assessment and evaluation.LING956*** Acquiring ProfessionalCommunicative Expertise4 pg cpThe nature of professional expertise, its definition and itsprocesses of acquisition, its relationship to the charting ofprofessional competencies and to personal communicativecapacity. How social and institutional contextsinform and are informed by narratives of experience. Thenature of claims and warrants for expert behaviour.Evaluation of evidence for expert exercise of judgment indifferent contexts.LING957*** Inter and Intra-culturalCommunication4 pg cpPrinciples and processes of inter-/intra cultural communicationagainst diverse interpretations of the construct ofculture. The explanatory analysis of the discourses occurringat critical moments in crucial sites of engagement inworkplaces, involving participants from distinct ethnolinguisticand/or institutional/organisational cultures, andemphasising especially issues of intertexuality, stance,face, metaphor, verbal/non-verbal communication, andvariation in pragmatic meaning.LING958*** Professional-clientCommunication4 pg cpParticipants describe, interpret and explain selected professional-clientencounters in key sites, eg healthcare,law, social work, bureaucracies, firms, and public relations.The course emphasises the explanatory value andrelevance of carrying out collaborative research involvingdiscourse specialists and professionals, leading totraining and other processes which will improve professional-clientcommunication.LING959*** Mediated Communication4 pg cpIntroduction to a variety of methodologies for analysingand describing multi-modal communication in a range oforganisational and professional settings, emphasising theimpact of the deployment of new communication technologieson workplace communication practices, andparticipant skills. Particular emphasis is given to manmachineinteraction, usability of web-mediated communication,visually presented information, collaborativemessage generation and document design.296LING960*** OrganisationalCommunication4 pg cpRealisation of organisational structure in particular patternsof discourse and language use; the impact of organisationalchange on modes of communication and onworker identity, particularly in response to globalisation,demands for enhanced public participation, transparenceand accountability, workplace reform; how discourses ofinformation and policy are created, re-contextualised,transformed and re-interpreted for and by different audiencesin the context of work across and within organisations.LING961*** Essentials of Editing3 pg cpThe unit introduces the domains and principles of editing,and focuses on key policy-making areas of style, inclusivelanguage and typography; and the interaction withother parties involved in the editorial process.LING962*** Language and Writing Style3 pg cpThe unit examines the resources of the English languageand how they are used by skilled writers and editors.Issues of readability, style and authorial expression willbe under discussion.LING963*** Structural and ElectronicEditing3 pg cpThis unit is concerned with the principles of structuralediting, and their application to both printed and electronicmedia. Issues of access and navigation in electronicdocuments will be discussed, as well as onscreen editingand indexing.LING964*** Editorial Issues andResponsibilities3 pg cpThe unit addresses the executive roles of the editor inrelation to a manuscript, managing reviews and the rightsand permissions process, commissioning of indexes andpromotional writing.LING965*** Dissertation I4 pg cpThis unit consists of guided reading and/or an experimentalprogram preliminary to the writing of the dissertation.The project will be developed through a series offour individual consultations.LING966*** Dissertation II4 pg cpThis unit complements LING965 and consists of thewriting up of the dissertation. The dissertation will bediscussed and reviewed in a series of four consultations.