La movida "concluyendo en torno al tema" en informes de investigación elaborados por estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

This article –part of the FONDECYT investigation project 1030982: “The academic discourse: representation and update of the report genre in the written communication between teachers and pupils”, directed by PhD Ana María Harvey– has as a main objective the analysis of some of the rhetorical strategies (‘moves’, in Swales’s terms, 1990) used by university students of three different areas, when writing the Conclusion section of research articles. A work of this nature is of great interest, since it allows deepening into the way in which less expert members of university academic communities begin to elaborate their discursive practices and to overturn in these the knowledge they have been acquiring in their process of indoctrination. The approach of the study is fundamentally of sociodiscursive character (Bajtin, 1997; Berkenkotter, 1995; Adam, 2001; Charaudeau, 2002; Swales, 1990, among others) in its approximation to the type of discursive genre in analysis: the research report. The results allow to affirm that there would exist a use of the discursive subgenre’s own conventional rhetorical strategies on the part of the students, and that the possible similarities and/or differences may be attributed to the specific needs of each knowledge area, and to other factors such as the task for which the research report has been elaborated.