TY - JOUR
T1 - Hacia un modelo retórico-discursivo del macrogénero Trabajo Final de Grado en Licenciatura
AU - Venegas, René
AU - Zamora, Sofía
AU - Galdames, Amparo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 PUCV, Chile.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - From an academic point of view, the most important landmark that students face when transitioning from higher education to professional life, is undoubtedly the production and defense of a senior thesis or Graduation Project. This enables them to gradually become members of the discourse community of the chosen discipline. This study sought to put forward a theory-and-empirically based rhetorical-discursive model of the Undergraduate Macro-Genre Graduation Project (UMGGP) grounded in five disciplines. Our model combines genre theory with a focus on communication and corpus linguistics. A subcorpus of 407 undergraduate graduation projects (UGP) was gathered from 4 different disciplines: Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. The rhetorical-discourse organization of BGP was configured through its macro purposes and communicative purposes. As a result, we proposed a rhetoric-discursive organization model that comprises 5 macromoves, 18 moves, and 65 steps. This model was tested through the analysis of a subcorpus of 59 UGP from Civil Engineering Informatics. The findings suggest that our model articulates macropurposes and communicative purposes of UMGGP and enables researchers to identify discursive patterns of graduation projects from the disciplines in study. This model may contribute to the academic literacy domain and to the development of didactic applications for the academic writing purposes.
AB - From an academic point of view, the most important landmark that students face when transitioning from higher education to professional life, is undoubtedly the production and defense of a senior thesis or Graduation Project. This enables them to gradually become members of the discourse community of the chosen discipline. This study sought to put forward a theory-and-empirically based rhetorical-discursive model of the Undergraduate Macro-Genre Graduation Project (UMGGP) grounded in five disciplines. Our model combines genre theory with a focus on communication and corpus linguistics. A subcorpus of 407 undergraduate graduation projects (UGP) was gathered from 4 different disciplines: Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. The rhetorical-discourse organization of BGP was configured through its macro purposes and communicative purposes. As a result, we proposed a rhetoric-discursive organization model that comprises 5 macromoves, 18 moves, and 65 steps. This model was tested through the analysis of a subcorpus of 59 UGP from Civil Engineering Informatics. The findings suggest that our model articulates macropurposes and communicative purposes of UMGGP and enables researchers to identify discursive patterns of graduation projects from the disciplines in study. This model may contribute to the academic literacy domain and to the development of didactic applications for the academic writing purposes.
KW - Communicative purposes
KW - Genre
KW - Macro-genre
KW - Thesis
KW - Undergraduate Graduation Project
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84995743300&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4067/s0718-09342016000400012
DO - 10.4067/s0718-09342016000400012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84995743300
VL - 49
SP - 247
EP - 279
JO - Revista Signos
JF - Revista Signos
SN - 0035-0451
ER -