Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p223 Este artigo analisa publicações latino-americanas a partir de países que falam Espanhol para mapear programas realizados na Região e, em seguida, fornecer um contexto para vislumbrar novas agendas de pesquisa para estudos de escrita latino-americanos em engenharia. A análise de 22 publicações sugere que as iniciativas e estudos em engenharia são recentes (a partir de 2009). A amostra revela uma ênfase em publicações orientadas pedagogicamente com foco em engenharia como um campo. As tendências sugerem que os defensores latino-americanos da escrita em engenharia podem se beneficiar através da incorporação de referenciais teóricos para a) explorar e compreender diferentes papéis da escrita através do tempo e do currículo na aprendizagem dos alunos e por subcampos de engenharia e, b) explorar abordagens teóricas para entender gêneros além de textos individuais (ou seja, repertórios de gênero e sistemas de gênero).
Highlights
In Latin America there is no ield known as writing studies and there is a lack of systematic research to document the history and the emergence of the ield (Navarro et al, 2016)
There are no central venues in the region, journals or associations, on professional or disciplinary writing; academic publications primarily circulate in journals ailiated to Linguistics and Language Sciences.2 he ILEES project reveals that the most frequent initiative across countries is courses on freshman composition in Spanish, writing centers and programs are rapidly emerging in the region (Narváez, 2014). he analysis of information available on the websites of writing centers and programs reveals that despite an advocacy for supporting disciplinary writing endeavors, online materials portray academic writing as a general skill in freshman years regardless of disciplines, since writing support is focused on essays, book reviews, literature reviews and
Not many corpus-based studies focus on the description of graphs, tables, and diagrams, as well as their layouts, as part of academic texts. he objective of this study is to identify, describe and quantify the occurrence ofsemiotic artifacts which are present in a sample of texts (1.043) belonging to the PUCV-2010 Academic Corpus. he corpus was collected in twelve PhD programs in six Chilean universities and comprises all the documents students are given to read during their formal curricula, with the exception of those included in the inal doctoral research (3,160 written texts, which are distributed among Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, History, Literature, and Linguistics) (...)
Summary
In Latin America there is no ield known as writing studies and there is a lack of systematic research to document the history and the emergence of the ield (Navarro et al, 2016). Herefore, in Latin America there is no speciic ield of writing in the disciplines (WID), in general, or Technical Communication, in particular. He interdisciplinary ield of Technical Communication has developed in the U.S as part of historical and evolutionary interactions among economic changes, scientiic developments, and digital technology innovations. Given the emerging Latin-American body of initiatives and studies in Engineering writing, this article aims at exploring features of these speciic endeavors reported by publications. Since there are no central venues (either journals, professional associations, or open-access projects) to access the literature on writing studies in Latin America, in general, and Engineering writing, in particular, the sample in appendix 1 was comprised of 22 publications (journal articles and oral communications) collected as a convenience sampling. What are the reasons justifying the emergence of studies and interventions related to Engineering writing?
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