Contextual, pragmatic and metadiscursive aspects in the academic writing of university students

Abstract

We consider that when we analyze how our students produce their academic texts, the linguistic, cultural and technological context that surrounds them must be taken into account, as well as the way they interact. Considering this context, we will be able to realize that what we ask is not only a huge linguistic effort for them, but it is also completely removed from their communicative reality. In this work we analyze the personal linguistic context of our students, thus introducing a new perspective when approaching the problems that university students face when they write academic texts. Being aware that they have not had adequate preparation, we offer some guidelines that, from a pragmatic point of view, can serve to make these deficiencies less obvious, because only with careful practice of the different skills that are required to write this type of writings could obtain the desired results.