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de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produti... more de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produtividade na divulgação do trabalho de pesquisadores que se encontram em ambientes semelhantes aos pesquisados. Palavras-chave: Letramento acadêmico. Escrita acadêmica. Publicação. Artigos científicos, Teoria da atividade.
Letras, Aug 2, 2022
Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWERDEW, 2000;... more Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWERDEW, 2000; NYGAARD, 2015; HYLAND, 2019). Their inexperience in writing academic genres contrasts with the demand to publish research articles in renowned journals in order to complete their degrees and advance in their careers. Research shows that novices need support in EAP instruction (WINGATE, 2015), understanding publication as a social practice (NYGAARD, 2015; CURRY and LILLIS, 2019), and English language proficiency (FERGUSON et al., 2011) to successfully engage in the activity. Data were collected from 41 Brazilian researchers regarding their experiences and needs through an online questionnaire to find significant themes for exploration in this qualitative study.
Despite the increase in the international publication by Brazilian researchers in the past three... more Despite the increase in the international publication by Brazilian researchers
in the past three decades, it is known that the production and publication of
articles demands considerable time and effort from the researchers, possibly to
detriment of the time they effectively devote to their research work. Taking into
consideration that government agencies increasingly value this activity for the
evaluation of academic careers of researchers as well as graduate/postgraduate
programmes at universities, the need to understand it better is indisputable.
Although a respectable body of bibliometric studies on published articles can
be found, there are few which investigate the process of writing and publishing
articles in international journals by Brazilian researchers. This qualitative study
collected, through an online questionnaire, information on the practices of production
and publication of research articles in English from 23 researchers in
the engineering field and 18 from applied social sciences, in addition to interviews
with 8 researchers from the same fields, and documents made available by
universities and government agencies concerning this topic. The analysis of this
activity is addressed through Engeström’s Activity Theory framework – which in
turn relies on ethnographic methods of data collection – with a view to exploring
the current forms of activity, mediation tools, the existing rules and conflicts. The
research reveals a wide range of practices aiming at succeeding in international
publication. The results highlight the need for provision of better mediation
tools, especially concerning academic literacy in English. The understanding
of the activity and its challenges may potentially inform us which actions could
optimise the use of resources and increase productivity in the communication
of research results by researchers in similar environments.
Keywords: Academic literacy. Academic writing. Publication. Research articles.
Activity theory.
de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produti... more de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produtividade na divulgação do trabalho de pesquisadores que se encontram em ambientes semelhantes aos pesquisados. Palavras-chave: Letramento acadêmico. Escrita acadêmica. Publicação. Artigos científicos, Teoria da atividade.
Letras, 2020
Abstract: Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWER... more Abstract: Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWERDEW, 2000; NYGAARD, 2015; HYLAND, 2019). Their lack of experience writing academic genres contrasts with the demand to publish research articles in renowned journals in order to complete their degrees and advance in their careers. Research shows that EAP instruction (WINGATE, 2015), understanding publication as a social practice (CURRY & LILLIS, 2019; NYGAARD, 2015), and English language proficiency (FERGUSON, et al., 2011) are areas where novices need support to successfully engage in the activity. In this study, data was collected from 41 Brazilian researchers regarding their experiences and needs. Key words: novice researchers. senior Brazilian researchers. EAP writing instruction
de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produti... more de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produtividade na divulgação do trabalho de pesquisadores que se encontram em ambientes semelhantes aos pesquisados. Palavras-chave: Letramento acadêmico. Escrita acadêmica. Publicação. Artigos científicos, Teoria da atividade.
Letras, Aug 2, 2022
Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWERDEW, 2000;... more Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWERDEW, 2000; NYGAARD, 2015; HYLAND, 2019). Their inexperience in writing academic genres contrasts with the demand to publish research articles in renowned journals in order to complete their degrees and advance in their careers. Research shows that novices need support in EAP instruction (WINGATE, 2015), understanding publication as a social practice (NYGAARD, 2015; CURRY and LILLIS, 2019), and English language proficiency (FERGUSON et al., 2011) to successfully engage in the activity. Data were collected from 41 Brazilian researchers regarding their experiences and needs through an online questionnaire to find significant themes for exploration in this qualitative study.
Despite the increase in the international publication by Brazilian researchers in the past three... more Despite the increase in the international publication by Brazilian researchers
in the past three decades, it is known that the production and publication of
articles demands considerable time and effort from the researchers, possibly to
detriment of the time they effectively devote to their research work. Taking into
consideration that government agencies increasingly value this activity for the
evaluation of academic careers of researchers as well as graduate/postgraduate
programmes at universities, the need to understand it better is indisputable.
Although a respectable body of bibliometric studies on published articles can
be found, there are few which investigate the process of writing and publishing
articles in international journals by Brazilian researchers. This qualitative study
collected, through an online questionnaire, information on the practices of production
and publication of research articles in English from 23 researchers in
the engineering field and 18 from applied social sciences, in addition to interviews
with 8 researchers from the same fields, and documents made available by
universities and government agencies concerning this topic. The analysis of this
activity is addressed through Engeström’s Activity Theory framework – which in
turn relies on ethnographic methods of data collection – with a view to exploring
the current forms of activity, mediation tools, the existing rules and conflicts. The
research reveals a wide range of practices aiming at succeeding in international
publication. The results highlight the need for provision of better mediation
tools, especially concerning academic literacy in English. The understanding
of the activity and its challenges may potentially inform us which actions could
optimise the use of resources and increase productivity in the communication
of research results by researchers in similar environments.
Keywords: Academic literacy. Academic writing. Publication. Research articles.
Activity theory.
de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produti... more de informar quais ações de suporte podem promover a otimização de recursos e o aumento da produtividade na divulgação do trabalho de pesquisadores que se encontram em ambientes semelhantes aos pesquisados. Palavras-chave: Letramento acadêmico. Escrita acadêmica. Publicação. Artigos científicos, Teoria da atividade.
Letras, 2020
Abstract: Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWER... more Abstract: Academic writing in English challenges graduate students and novice researchers (FLOWERDEW, 2000; NYGAARD, 2015; HYLAND, 2019). Their lack of experience writing academic genres contrasts with the demand to publish research articles in renowned journals in order to complete their degrees and advance in their careers. Research shows that EAP instruction (WINGATE, 2015), understanding publication as a social practice (CURRY & LILLIS, 2019; NYGAARD, 2015), and English language proficiency (FERGUSON, et al., 2011) are areas where novices need support to successfully engage in the activity. In this study, data was collected from 41 Brazilian researchers regarding their experiences and needs. Key words: novice researchers. senior Brazilian researchers. EAP writing instruction