Prominent researcher gives lecture on didactic practices in academic writing

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Dr. David Sánchez-Jiménez, from the New York College of Technology, spoke to academics and students from the ULS house.

A learning space on the elaboration of academic writing and academic discourse was offered by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Serena, by organizing the conference: “Introduction to didactic practices in university academic writing”, by the academic of the New York College of Technology, Dr. David Sánchez-Jiménez, and which was aimed at academics and students of the university.chat fondecyt 3

During the activity, the academic provided various didactic guidelines for students to take to the classroom and write their texts in a way more appropriate to the university context, such as the use of first and third person, as well as the need to impersonalize and objectify. academic discourse.

Dr. Sánchez-Jiménez highlighted the high participation of students from different careers at the University. “There was great interest on the part of the students, which is quite positive because the objective is for them to have access to that knowledge of academic writing and to give them tools that can be useful in the development of academic and research texts,” he said. the professional.

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Dr. Sánchez-Jiménez's visit was carried out within the framework of the FONDECYT 11170128 project as a guest of international cooperation, in order to give lectures to students, assist the research group of the Department of Arts and Letters of the ULS and plan research in set.

According to what was stated by Dr. Paulina Meza, academic of the Department. of Arts and Letters ULS and in charge of said FONDECYT project, the guest academic assists this research that addresses the disciplinary writing of students of the Law degree at the University of La Serena and the Universidad Católica del Norte, and the Medicine degree from UCN; This in relation to 3 variants, the perception of the student as a writer, how the teacher evaluates his discipline and how a linguist expert in discursive elements evaluates him.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom