Alfabetizacion academica: Un cambio necesario, algunas alternativas posibles

Abstract

Academy reading? So basic a process in higher education? A remedial need to palliate that which has not been done in the previous school levels? Once again, some body that propose a reading and writing workshop to the freshmen? To tranquilize the audience, I will make myself clear, in the first place that I do not assume, in this exposition, the assumptions of these anticipated questions, but debate them.For this, I review the literature on academic literacy, pointing out the explicative power to account for the reading and writing, wasted in our universities, that do not offer the context in which student would write for learning. I synthesize the results of observations in 90 Australian, Canadian and American universities in which, contrarily to our institutions, have implemented a variety of systems to literate students academically. Finally, I conclude showing the institutional and curricular changes that higher education institutions require to assume the task of transmitting the writing culture intrinsic to the professions they teach.

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