Academic Writing Difficulties of Master’s Students

Academic literacy is the process that allows the development of necessary skills for the comprehension and production of texts in the field of higher education. This literacy is built across undergraduate studies and continues even in postgraduate education, so there will always be areas of opportun...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Rey-Castillo, Marisol, Gómez-Zermeño, Marcela Georgina
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2021
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:espanhol
inglês
português
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/11958
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/11958
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:academic writing
academic literacy
writing skills
written communicative competence
graduate education
escritura académica
habilidades de escritura
competencia comunicativa escrita
alfabetización académica
postgrado
redação acadêmica
alfabetização acadêmica
habilidades de escrita
competência comunicativa escrita
pós-graduação
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Resumo:Academic literacy is the process that allows the development of necessary skills for the comprehension and production of texts in the field of higher education. This literacy is built across undergraduate studies and continues even in postgraduate education, so there will always be areas of opportunity and improvement according to academic and scientific communication needs. This work aimed to identify difficulties in the academic writing of students from two online master’s programs from a university in northeastern Mexico. Through the qualitative analysis of twelve students’ texts and interviews with five teachers, it was possible to identify aspects that can be improved, such as documentation, the articulation of one’s own voice with the sources, the citation, and some drafting elements.