Argumentative Competences in Academic Literacy

Abstract

This paper is connected with many research works on academic writing which are being carried out in different countries. In our case, we tend to articulate research lines which mainly deal with academic literacy, academic genres and the role of argumentation. For such a reason, since 2005 an academic literacy program has been developed in a subject that belongs to the Humanity area at an Argentinian university. The last step in this program is the elaboration and exposition of group papers, taken as argumentative constructions which put research results for consideration. This paper presents some results obtained as regards the relation between final products, processes and production contexts.