Abstract

FERNANDEZ-CARDENAS, Juan Manuel  and  PINA-GOMEZ, Lorena. The Profession of Academic Writing: A Portal to Promote the Use of Written Language as a Social Practice. RMIE [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.60, pp.187-212. ISSN 1405-6666.

Academic writing is a growing field due to the recognition that the use of written language and socialization in academic disciplines is indissoluble: language cannot be reduced to teaching spelling and grammar, nor can the construction of knowledge be understood without the mediation of academic texts in higher education. However, institutional initiatives for formalizing this type of actions are still very limited, especially in the case of technological components. In this article, we present the development of a portal of resources for academic writing, which illustrates a set of actions and processes that constitute the profession of academic writing as a social practice. This model of academic writing is achieved by using a sociocultural paradigm and a paradigm of visual semiotics.

Keywords : literacy; semiotics; written language; socialization; education and technology; Mexico.

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