Writing abstracts in graduate programs: a case study

This article reports the main findings of a master's thesis (COSTA, 2022) in Education that accompanied seven students of the Academic English I course for a semester to comprehend how they learned academic writing in English, more specifically the academic abstract. For that, we identified the...

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Autores: Costa, Eduardo Pereira da, Bailer, Cyntia
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2024
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositório:Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/53693
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/53693
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Pós-graduação
Escrita acadêmica
Aprendizagem
Inglês
Abstract.
Graduate level
Academic writing
Learning
English
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Resumo:This article reports the main findings of a master's thesis (COSTA, 2022) in Education that accompanied seven students of the Academic English I course for a semester to comprehend how they learned academic writing in English, more specifically the academic abstract. For that, we identified the rhetorical and linguistic structure that the participants used in the production of their abstracts according to the rhetorical movements of Swales and Feak (2009), we got to know their perspectives and the effects of instruction. We used to generate data: (a) participant observation; (b) field diary; (c) collection of produced abstracts; and (d) interviews with the graduate students. The data revealed the participants’ evolution in writing abstracts and the appropriation of Swales and Feak’s movements (2009). Participants highlighted the objective of publishing scientifically and internationally in English autonomously, as insiders through their active participation in specific contexts of language use.