Università Roma Tre

The laboratory aims to provide students with practical and theoretical tools for the development of skills and reading skills, interpretation and writing of a text in its many forms and styles.

The lessons will be articulated according to three points:
- In a first part of the course, theoretical and interpretative elements will be introduced that aim to describe and investigate the meaning, the opportunity and the pleasure that writing has in relation to the spoken language, culture, action and thought of contemporary living .

- In a second phase, information and basic indications will be provided concerning the structure, style, grammar, punctuation, genres and different functions of a text.

- The second part of each lesson of the laboratory, dedicated to individual and group exercises, intends to offer students brief examples of writing focused on the innovativeness of communication with the reader and on the originality of the writer's point of view. Will be proposed texts, or extracts of texts, in the context of the narration of the real, of journalism and travel reportage, of the relationship between writing and visual arts, of reading and reviewing a book or a film, a show or a concert, of reflection and arguments on matters of custom and society. Writing simulation tests will follow.

I. Calvino, Lezioni americane, Mondadori, Milano 2017 (prima ed. 1993).

D. Maraini, Amata scrittura, Bur, Milano 2000.

Prontuario di riferimento:

R. Luperini, P. Cataldi, L. Marchiani, F. Marchese, Il nuovo ‘La scrittura e l’interpretazione’ - La scrittura: guida alla composizione, Palumbo Editore, Palermo 2011 (edizione rossa; solo la prima parte Guida alla composizione).