Modes of acquiring and producing knowledge within the university

an analysis of academic writing in dissertations by students of Profletras

Abstract

In this text, we carry out an approach to academic writing, understood as a point of articulation between the linguistic and the discursive. As a reference we use concepts from Discourse Analysis, as theory and methodology of reading, to which we associate the principles of evidentiary  reading. The corpus was comprised of six Professional Master’s theses in Letters (Profletras), in which we analyze the processes of articulation of enunciations in the text, more specifically, syntactic and discursive arrangements. Based on the analysis, we dialogue about the forms of appropriation of discourse, understood as modes of saying the speech of the Other. The reading-writing of the corpus allowed us to construe three forms of appropriation – performative, rhetorical, and knowledge. The more expressive presence of the first two indicated the existence, in the texts analyzed, of protocol writing, in which the cited speech is kept far apart from the subject it cites by assymetry, upholding the ideology that in it is the truth it seeks.