Abstract

CALLE-ARANGO, Lina; AVILA REYES, Natalia  and  MENESES, Alejandra. Construction and transformations of doctoral students’ academic identities through citations. Íkala [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.2, pp.331-346.  Epub Mar 15, 2022. ISSN 0123-3432.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v26n02a12.

Doctoral students' challenges and identity tensions are becoming an increasingly relevant topic. One way of studying this is through the analysis of citations, since, to par­ticipate in the academic world, doctoral students must enter into dialogue with other authors and with advances in their discourse communities. This research uses the theoretical framework of academic literacies to analyze, longitudinally, the relationship between the citations and academic identity building of four Education doctoral students enrolled in a highly selective Chilean university. To determine the relationship between citation and academic identitybuilding, the citation’ purposes of the introductions of three versions of the literature reviews written by these students were analyzed. Such analisis was complemented with students testimonies, which were collected through text-based interviews. The results show how citations’ purposes were chosen based on habit, style or disciplinary affiliations, as well as on the image they wanted to project as researchers, which places them halfway to a self-per­ception as such. This contrast allowed them to build a hybrid or multiple academic identity.

Keywords : citation; academic writing; doctoral students; academic identity; intertextuality.

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