Banca de DEFESA: SYLVIA COUTINHO ABBOTT GALVAO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : SYLVIA COUTINHO ABBOTT GALVAO
DATA : 03/08/2018
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório D do CCHLA
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From Périgord do UFRN: the essay in academic literacy

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Keywords: Essay. Academic speech genres. Didactic sequence. Academic writing. Academic literacy.

PÁGINAS: 156
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Linguística
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ABSTRACT

 

The essay has resisted to all theorizing attempts. Many scholars consider this a multifaceted genre, a no-genre, and anti-genre and even an ‘outlaw genre’, situated outside the norms and the literary institution. With such formal and content freedom, but consolidated for its canonical irreverence, how was it that, being inserted in the academic sphere, the essay negotiated a space as rigorous as any scientific orthodoxy? Is it possible to establish a stylistic-compositional matrix for the academic/scientific essay? And, to what extent, a curricular practice of essay writing at the university level, made viable through a didactic sequence (DOLZ; NOVERRAZ; SCHNEUWLY, 2004), would serve as a mediating element between knowing and doing for university students in their initial formation as researchers. Seeking answers to these questions, in this thesis, the following objectives have been forwarded: 1) to delineate the configuration of the academic essay genre (in the letters/linguistic area), considering its contents, selection of expressive resources (verbal style) and compositional structure. This will be done in view of the analysis of essays that have been published by experienced researchers and senior academics. And 2) to investigate and evaluate (having the mentioned essays as parameters) the incorporation of discursive and enunciation structures of the genre by beginners in the academic community (undergraduate students in Letters). The essays authored by the referred students were written as part of a didactics procedure in a specific electivediscipline (LET0430 Leitura e produção de texto acadêmico II) offered in the degree curriculum of the Letters and Linguistics Course in Portuguese Language and Literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). In order to reach the announced objectives, the following research corpora was analyzed: corpus 1 is constituted by eight academic essays written by renowned Brazilian researchers; corpus 2 is constituted by 12 essays written by six undergraduate students, six of which were produced during the initial stage and six during the final stage of the didactics procedure. Regarding its theoretical standing, this thesis draws on the postulates of the Bakhtinian circle (concepts of language, speech genres, dialogism); on the postulates of Socio-discursive Interactionism (construction of didactics sequences), and on the New Literacy Studies (literacy as social practices). In methodological terms, the research is based on the interpretivist approach and the qualitative paradigm; it is an action research of social-empirical nature. A preliminary analysis of corpus 2 reveals that, in developing a practice of reading and essay writing, a didactic sequence, focusing on the essay, transforms the students’ initial assumptions regarding the genre. More than that, it shows that students acquire knowledge of the genre’s stylistic-compositional configuration, thus allowing their rightful engagement in academic writing.

 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - JOSE CEZINALDO ROCHA BESSA - UERN
Externo à Instituição - LIVIA SUASSUNA - UFPE
Presidente - 047.613.914-72 - MARIA BERNADETE FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA - UFRN
Interno - 332207 - MARIA DO SOCORRO OLIVEIRA
Externo à Instituição - MARLY AMARILHA - NENHUMA