Abstract

ALARCON NEVE, LUISA JOSEFINA  and  GARCIA MEJIA, KARINA PAOLA. Written and oral comments in peer text review in a thesis writing circle. Zona prox. [online]. 2024, n.40, pp.92-117.  Epub May 02, 2024. ISSN 2145-9444.  https://doi.org/10.14482/zp.40.417.258.

In the last decades, different studies have shown that writing groups are valuable support spaces for researchers' training. One of the reasons lies in the collaborative dynamics between peers that arise between them, like the review of text progress, in it a cognitive and social scaffolding is built for novice writers, as is the case of postgraduate students. To learn more about this type of collaboration, in this study the comments provided by the participants of a thesis writing circle are observed. The analysis focuses on the characteristics of focus and function of written comments in an asynchronous review of shared dissertation progress in a cyber space, and then these are compared with those of oral comments exchanged in synchronous sessions. It is also observed if the reviewers justified their comments or not, depending on the kind of speech, written or oral, or the kind of scope, local or global, of the comments. Results show that only half of the local written comments were justified, but most of the global comments, written and oral, were indeed justified. Written comments, regardless of their scope, focused on formal and structural aspects, while the focus of attention was diversified in the oral comments. The implicit directive function was the most frequent in all types of comments, and in the global comments the appreciative function was also recurrent.

Keywords : Research writing; thesis writing circles; peer review.

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