Writing at higher education plays a top-priority role as a learning tool, and also as the means of appropriating the academic culture for each professional field. The expected scopes for the writing skill are oriented by the curriculum along with the teachers’ conceptions and practices, and partly determined by students’ limitations and difficulties. In this study, the systematization of experiences towards the promotion of writing in three undergraduate programs at a public university in Mexico is reported. Firstly, a documentary analysis of the course syllabi and curricula was carried out, followed by an interview with the coordinators of each degree; then, a questionnaire was applied to the students. Additionally, two focus groups were held: one with students and the other one with the teachers. Results demonstrate that in the three programs, multiple writing tasks are performed with different purposes, scopes and complexity levels. The difficulties shown by students reflect deficiency in performing basic processes, as well as the limited support offered while developing texts.
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