Textuality in Academic Course Descriptions on the Romanian University Websites
Textuality in Academic Course Descriptions on the Romanian University Websites

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at illustrating how the writing and communication of course descriptions–texts belonging to the institutional academic language–are controlled, in turn, by the seven standards of textuality. The research carried out on this account intends to revise the definitions of text within the theoretical framework of text linguistics, offer detailed analysis of the textual features of course descriptions which investigate the extent to which they fulfil their intended function, and raise awareness of the functional value of these academic texts so that their providers in Romanian universities take into consideration the key factors of text receiver and text purpose in the writing process. For the explanation of these theoretical concepts text samples extracted from course descriptions available on Romanian university websites have been used. The findings of the research show that course descriptions may achieve their communicative function provided that all the textual standards are met.

• Details
• Contents