GÃneros textuais e produÃÃo de universitÃrios: o resumo acadÃmico

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2004

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This study reflects the increasing concern of university instructors with the low quality of undergraduate studentsâ texts, especially those starting their academic experience. Most common criticisms made by instructors focus on such serious communicative problems as that of understanding and organizing information, which is due chiefly to students little familiarity with textual genres used in the academic community. Interactionist studies based on Bakhtinâs genre theory, the approaches on genre studies in the perspective of the New Rhetoric, from the North American school, specially the works of Miller (1984; 1994) and Swales (1990; 1992; 2003), and the studies developed by van Dijk and Kintsch on macro-rules for understanding and reduction information have strongly contributed to the analysis of studentsâ text production, particularly the summary genre, which was identified as the main kind of text produced in the classroom context. The research corpus consists of 167 summaries produced by students from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). On the basis of general criteria such as presentation of References, text length, text length, and possibility of access to the source text, 45 summaries were selected for analysis, in terms of 1) linguistic elements in the text surface, 2) rhetorical structure of summaries, and 3) macro-rules for text comprehension. The investigation showed that student-produced texts do not meet academic requirements for several reasons, among students not having succeeded in internalizing and implementing text-production factors such as text producerÂs intention, audience-awareness, and contextual sensitivity. One of the ways to solve that problem is through the systematic and intensive cognitive investment in the teaching-learning of text genres, by diversifying the ways students can have access/exposition to and engagement in different genres shared by writers of academic prose, so as to enhance students participation in the discursive production of their university community

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academic discourse resumo acadÃmico written text production linguistica gÃneros textuais produÃÃo escrita genre analysis academic summaries

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