Abstract:
In their career at college graduation, students seek to construct an identity in academic settings, which involves engaging in specific literacy practices and literacy events. Literacy events in academic settings include the production of prestigious genres such as the research article. In this paper, we analyze, under the light of Cultural Studies, New Literacy Studies, and Rhetorical Genre Studies, the production of scientific articles by undergraduates in Language as a part of the process of students' integration in literacy practices and literacy events in academy. We analyzed five articles written by students, focusing on aspects of intertextuality, taken as evidence of attempts at building the literate identity of students in academic settings through the production of the research article in dialogue with already recognized writers. Results indicate that students seek to identify their production with authors through strategies such as direct quoting and other forms of use of their texts.
Keywords:
Academic literacy; Identity; Genre; Research article; Intertextuality
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