Writing abstracts in graduate programs: a case study

• Main Author: Costa, Eduardo Pereira da
• Publication Date: 2024
• Other Authors: Bailer, Cyntia
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada
• Download full: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/53693
• topic: Pós-graduação; Escrita acadêmica; Aprendizagem; Inglês; Abstract.; Graduate level; Academic writing; Learning; English; Abstract

This article reports the main findings of a master's thesis (COSTA, 2022) in Education that accompanied seven students of the Academic English I course for a semester to comprehend how they learned academic writing in English, more specifically the academic abstract. For that, we identified the rhetorical and linguistic structure that the participants used in the production of their abstracts according to the rhetorical movements of Swales and Feak (2009), we got to know their perspectives and the effects of instruction. We used to generate data: (a) participant observation; (b) field diary; (c) collection of produced abstracts; and (d) interviews with the graduate students. The data revealed the participants’ evolution in writing abstracts and the appropriation of Swales and Feak’s movements (2009). Participants highlighted the objective of publishing scientifically and internationally in English autonomously, as insiders through their active participation in specific contexts of language use.