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TAPIA LADINO, Mónica  e  SILVA MADARIAGA, Verónica. Improving the quality of writing: a pedagogical university experience in the field of writing for specific purposes. Folios [online]. 2010, n.31, pp.91-104. ISSN 0123-4870.

In the university context, writing is a common practice. The main aim of this paper is to present an intervention experience in the area of writing for specific purposes. This research was carried out with an academic of the Business Administration programme and one academic of the Spanish and Communication programme, with the aim of improving the university student reports quality about an enterprise. The students were organized in groups of three and presented 2 drafts before the final version of the report. The object of analysis corresponds to the drafts and the final report written by 23 groups. The results indicate that the business administration academic managed to improve the quality of the pieces of writing due to the introduction of an explicit methodology to guide the development of the task. The best evaluated assignments fulfilled the communicative objectives which corresponded to the description of the enterprise human resources and proposed improvements based on the analysis of its weaknesses

Palavras-chave : writing for specific purposes; university didactics; gender discourse.

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