XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Socio-cognitive processes in reading and writing academic texts

• In Event: Perspectives on academic writing in Brazilian universities: a socio-discursive approach

Abstract

Letters Undergraduate Course of University of Campinas contemplates Laboratório de Produção Textual II, a discipline which is offered every second semester of the year. The purpose of this discipline is to make students work with academic and/or scientific genres, directing them to the most appropriate application of analytical devices developed by text studies, so they can master not only social technologies oriented to Portuguese language teaching, but can also master specialized languages, with special attention to the process of revision and rewriting of texts. The comprehension of academic textual-discursive practices and effective participation of subjects in a scientific community demand continuous reflexivity about discursive genres that circulate and characterize academic spheres of knowledge production, and such reflection permeates the issue of scientific writing. Our presentation aims more generally to focus on the main sociocognitive and discursive processes that enable the progressive autonomy of students in relation to academic literacy practices at university. The corpus consists of a set of written answers produced by students to a form composed by questions about socio cognitive processes associated to the various activities they were involved in, such as such as reviews, summaries, interviews and audiovisual products for scientific dissemination (videos or podcasts). Results show the fact that the main focus of students' reflexivity lies on (i) the perception for necessary joint and continuous work on their own written production and (ii) the self-perception of the limits and possibilities of academic language practices inside other social spheres.

Authors

• Anna Christina Bentes da Silva, University of Campinas

• Rafaely Carolina da Cruz, Campinas State University - UNICAMP

• Kennedy Nobre, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira