1. Overview
Historical account of Latin-American movements on Higher
Education writing in Spanish
Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile,
Colombia, México, Perú, Puerto Rico
y Venezuela
UNESCO Headquarters
http://www.unescolectura.univalle.edu.co/inicio_sede
s.html

2. Based on survey responses of a purposive sample of scholars of Argentina, Chile, Colombia y México in
Summer 2012
Tendencies
Types of Latin-American initiatives on Higher Education writing
Website: www.ilees.org

3. Based on information available in Summer 2013 at websites of writing centers and
writing programs in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, México, Puerto Rico y Venezuela
Tendencies
Time in existence (years) of Latin-American writing centers and writing
programs
Website: www.ilees.org

4. Title
Professionalization: Reading and writing academic and professional
texts , 2012

5. Preface
The book is one of the results of the Program for
Developing Reading and Writing abilities through
undergraduate education at Universidad General Sarmiento
in Argentina
[Programa para el desarrollo de habilidades de lectura y
escritura a lo largo de la carrera, PRODEAC]
http://www.ungs.edu.ar/prodeac/
2005 – intensive writing in disciplinary courses
Interdisciplinary teams: writing instructors + disciplinary
professors
Designing writing assignments + Teaching classes
collaboratively:
-. Identifying relationships between academic genres and
social practices in the discipline/profession (projections)
-. making visible conventions of exemplary texts
-. drafting and revising in groups and teacher-students
conferences their own texts
Disciplinary and professional genres: analyzing
exemplary texts : Systemic Fuctional Linguistics: Sidney
School - Australia

6. Preface
Goal
Conventions of academic genres in Spanish to educating
students as newcomers in disciplinary theories and
scientific research based on their presence in the
PRODEAC experience
Section 1: Writing to read critically academic texts or
other sources
Commentary (?) Reseña académica
Academic essay
Literature review (?) Estado de la cuestión
Case study report
Section 2: Professional genres
Product assessment report in Engineering (?) Evaluación
del producto en Ingeniería
Procedural guidelines (?) Manual de Procedimientos
Proposals (?) Proyectos de intervención

7. Product assessment report in Engineering
Evaluación del producto en Ingeniería
Genre motives
Assessing implementation and feasibility of products
Readers´ expectations
Product characteristics
Theoretical framework to compare the actual
product against others similar
The author perspective claiming for selecting one
product relying on prior satisfactory results or
expected results in implementing the product in
certain conditions
Chapter organization
Brief description of the genre
Description of textual organization of the genre
Analysis of a exemplary text
Recommendations for writing process the genre

8. Comments
What does this book make visible?
The book is teaching-based: sample of current pedagogical
resources in Latin American region
Efforts in systematizing interdisciplinary teaching experiences:
Authors are specialists on composition/Language/Linguistics
and the subject matter/disciplines
Opportunities to identify and describe disciplinary and
professional genres in Spanish that could be specific for the
region (reinforcing the notion that genres are culturally
situated) = Opportunities to conduct further comparative
research among international regions and languages
Evidence of the influence of Linguistics theories in the
emerging field on composition studies in Latin American Higher
Education (Argentina and Chile): Systemic Fuctional Linguistics:
Sidney School – Australia
Challenge: Incorporate other theories to research academic
and professional genres as part of activity systems (literacy
practices) beyond linguistic features of texts as static products