Academic genres in the university: thesis or the research writing process
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The thesis is understood as an initiation ritual: the way through the condition of being a student to becoming a member of the academic tribes. However, its symbolic value in the academic world has not been proportional to the attention it has been paid as a discursive object. It is still considered as “an under-theorized, under-studied, and under-taught text” (Paré et al.,2009:179). Precisely, because of this limited trail of reflections that moves slowly, (Borsinger 2007, Tamola 2007 in Spanish language; Bunton 1998, Paré et al. 2009, Swales 2005 in English language), there are serious confusions that require enlightening studies. Unquestionably, this unawareness of the rules of the “ceremony” has changed it par excellence into the most difficult genre to perform or execute (the fulfillment rate of the thesis in the English speaking world, is less than a 50%, and just a 14% in Ecuador; therefore , we can imagine what is the reality of other Hispanic countries). We assert that the execution of this genre is not only built on textual concepts and the human engineering which is able to guide its practice. Nonetheless, to check its discursive scene from investigation and then refer its relationship with the social and historical context can contribute to clarify the vision of it.
La tesis es un ritual de iniciación: el paso de la condición de estudiante a la condición de miembro de derecho de las tribus académicas. Sin embargo, su valor simbólico en el mundo académico no ha sido proporcional a la atención que ha recibido como objeto discursivo. Sigue siendo “an under-theorized, under-studied, and under-taught text” (Paré et at., 2009:179). Precisamente, por esta limitada estela de reflexiones que avanzan a ritmo lento, (Borsinger 2007, Tamola 2007 en lengua española; Bunton 1998, Paré et al. 2009, Swales 2005 en lengua inglesa), existen serias confusiones, que requieren un estudio esclarecedor. Sin duda, este desconocimiento de las reglas de su “ceremonia” lo han convertido por antonomasia en el género de más difícil ejecución (la tasa de cumplimento de la tesis en el mundo anglófono es menor al 50%, en Ecuador solo logrado en un porcentaje que llega al 14%, podemos ya imaginar lo que ocurre en otros países del medio hispano). Puntualizamos que la ejecución de este género no se edifica únicamente sobre las nociones textuales y la ingeniería humana capaz de orientar las prácticas. No obstante, revisar su escena discursiva desde la investigación y luego referir su relación con el contexto social e histórico pueden contribuir a aclarar la visión.
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- 2019
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- spa
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- REVISTAUC
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