Resumen

FRANCO, Jesica. Experiencia de intervención educativa para mejorar la calidad de escritura académica de los estudiantes de posgrado. CPU-e. Rev. Investig. Educ [online]. 2016, n.22, pp.151-175. ISSN 1870-5308.

One of the great challenges in higher education is to achieve a quality standard in the academic writings of its students. The dynamics of reading and writing at this level involves the development of new skills associated with reading comprehension of a large volume of information, critical analysis and academic style. In Mexico, especially, universities and teachers are aware of the lack of these abilities and the difficulties faced by their students to produce academic essays: however, only very few proposals exist to address this problem. Therefore, the educational intervention conducted sought a solution to improve the quality of academic writings in graduate students. This has been achieved through the implementation of a manual and seminar, which helped students in the acquisition of new learning techniques. As a result, students also improved their reading and writing skills, gained confidence and a greater understanding of the academic style.

Palabras llave : Research in education; academic literacy theory; linguistic competence; academic writing; higher education; postgraduate studies.