ABSTRACT
In the field of academic writing studies in Latin America, numerous inquiries have been conducted on graduation genres to describe, analyze, and understand their textual characteristics and the contexts in which they circulate. However, there is still a lack of a comprehensive, contrasting, and historically organized overview. This article presents the results of a revision of research on graduation genres in the region. A corpus of 52 studies published between 2005 and 2022 was systematically collected. The findings reveal, firstly, a predominance of research focused on postgraduate theses and, to a lesser extent, undergraduate final papers, with a pronounced growth since 2010. Secondly, a well-established line of research is studies with a focus on the text as a finished product, although there are also studies that explore preliminary drafts. Finally, an increasingly growing trend is research that investigates the practices and representations of thesis writers and advisors, and, in some cases, also integrates textual dimensions through a variety of methodological strategies.
Keywords:
higher education; writing studies; thesis; genres
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