Padrões de recorrência entre resumos e introduções de artigos científicos de alunos de graduação

Abstract

In the undergraduate writing practices, the students need to deal with specific genres of the academic context, among which the scientific article stands out and, in it, the abstract and the introduction as doorsteps for the main text. It is expected that there will be a continuity pattern between the abstract and the introduction in the article, from the point of view of the information included and its distribution in the respective rhetorical movements. The aim of this paper is to comparatively analyze, based on Swalesian genre theory, the distribution of information between the abstract and the introduction of the scientific article. To this purpose, 10 articles produced by students of a Letters undergraduate course were selected and submitted to the analysis of their rhetorical organization. The results indicate that the texts present a partial continuity pattern between the abstract and the introduction, with also noticeable discontinuities. From the literacy point of view, we find that the production of these academic genres represents a significantly complex task for the undergraduate.