GUIDANCE AND WRITING OF UNDERGRADUATE MONOGRAPHIC WORK IN PROFESSOR’S DISCOURSES AT HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

In order to understand discursive processes that are involved in the writing of monographic work as a genre, produced at college, we aim at analyzing professors’ discourses about the process of monographic work production in the Course of Arts. As background support we took the foundation theory of Text Discourse Analysis by Adam (2011[2008]) and we also considered studies on Text Production in Higher Education. In what is concerned to our methodology we follow the qualitative approach lines, so we applied questionnaires to six professors in the Undergraduate Course of Arts. Professor’s discourses analyzed had pointed out that: i) guidance and the process of writing production of a monographic work are forms to act by language that has to be considered in the perspective of student free choices in the root of the writing production, among other questions; ii) It is necessary an articulation between the monographic work and its project from the beginning to the end of the work; iii) Professors assume, in some sense, the enunciate responsibility about the content of proposed-enunciate. We intend to contribute to the teaching of text production at the university, especially to monographic work as well as to the research development in this field, focusing on the guidance work in Higher Education.