La conformación de un área de investigación en escritura académica para carreras de Ingeniería

Abstract

This article proposes the conformation of a research area within studies on academic writing at the university: the teaching of academic writing in engineering. It begins by asking why resistance persists to including this teaching object, if the professional world requires effective and precise communicative and writing skills. It reviews antecedents, categorizes and systematizes them and is part of the theoretical movement Writing across the disciplines. It constructs four dimensions, identity, epistemological, pedagogical and contextual, and combines them to delimit particular problems. Finally, it proposes new questions about the transformations produced by the writting support and teaching plans or the role that institutions have in these proposals, among others.