En Carrera: Escritura y Lectura de Textos Académicos y Profesionales

  • STEM, Pedagogy, WID, Writing

Edited by Lucía Natale

Book CoverEn carrera: escritura y lectura de textos académicos y profesionales offers a critical description of some of the genres involved in student’s academic and professional development in undergraduate higher education: academic review, essay, state of the art, case study, product evaluation, procedures manual, and social intervention project. The book also offers guides for understanding and quoting complex texts. In this sense, it can be useful for professionals, university students, and professors who are interested in including discipline-specific writing skills in their courses. 

The book's chapters are pedagogically-oriented: they explore the context of circulation, the goals, and the structure of each genre; they suggest strategies for text planning, elaboration and revision; and they include real, commented examples and exercises based on experts' and students' samples. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the book is its composition process: each chapter was written collaboratively by a writing professor and a lecturer of the specific subject matter the genre belongs to. Therefore, readers can gain access to a comprehensive account that articulates the insights of the experienced scholar and the analysis of the language expert.

This rhetorical, functional, and disciplinary-situated perspective is the basis behind the Program to Develop Academic Literacy across the Curriculum (PRODEAC), installed in the Degree Cycle of all the degrees at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Buenos Aires Argentina) since 2005.

The entire volume and individual chapters can be viewed below. You can also view the book on its website at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. An article (in English) that describes the PRODEAC can be downloaded from the WAC Clearinghouse at http://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/wpww/chapter2.pdf.

Table of Contents

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Prólogo, by Lucía Natale

Estrategias para el abordaje de textos, by Patricia Ema Knorr

La reseña académica, by Federico Navarro y Ana Luz Abramovich

El ensayo académico, by Carolina Zunino y Matías Muraca

El estado de la cuestión, by Natalia Bengochea y Florencia Levín

El análisis de caso en educación, by Alicia Merodo y Lucía Natale

La evaluación de producto en ingeniería, by Marcelo Muschietti y Amado O. Vitali

El manual de procedimientos: ¿quién, qué, cómo y cuándo?, by Daniela Stagnaro, Jorge Camblong y Jorge Nicolini

El proyecto de intervención, by Daniela Stagnaro y Natalia da Representaçao

La cita bibliográfica, by Federico Navarro

Bibliografía sobre discurso científico-profesional y lectoescritura, by Compilada por Federico Navarro

About the Editor

Lucía Natale is a professor and researcher at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Argentina) where she leads PRODEAC, an institutional writing-in-the-disciplines program. She has delivered seminars for lecturers in different countries in Latin America. She researches disciplinary literacies at the undergraduate level, and has co-edited books and authored articles on this topic. Her most recent collaborations include Alfabetización académica: un camino para la inclusión en el nivel superior (2017)- an edited collection about the relationship between academic literacy and inclusion in higher education- and La lectura y la escritura en las disciplinas: lineamientos para su enseñanza (2018), a collection that offers strategies to introduce literacy practices in disciplinary courses.

Publication Information: Natale, Lucía. (Ed.). (2012). En carrera: Escritura y lectura de textos académicos y profesionales. Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Available at http://www.ungs.edu.ar/prodeac.

Publication Date: January 1, 2011

Note: This book appears on the Clearinghouse courtesy of its editor and authors.

International Exchanges on the Study of Writing

Series Editors: Terry Myers Zawacki, George Mason University; Magnus Gustafsson, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för Vetenskapens Kommunikation och Lärande, Avdelningen för Fackspräk och Kommunikation; Joan Mullin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Federico Navarro, Universidad de Buenos Aires, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and Universidad de Chile.

Section Editors: Federico Navarro (Editor in Chief) Universidad de O'Higgins (Chile); Violeta Molina-Natera (Editor for texts in Spanish), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Colombia); Désirée Motta-Roth (Editor for texts in Portuguese), Universidade Federal de Santa Maria / CNpQ (Brasil); Ana M. Cortés Lagos (Associate Editor), Syracuse University

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