Compasses for writing. Notes on the work with academic writing practices in the Admission to Letters Course.

Abstract

In Letters, the practice of writing is not only, as in any discipline, a tool for accessing and producing knowledge, but also, and especially, an object of study on which students will reflect and in which they will specialize. Our approaches to critical and creative writing challenge us doubly, both in its epistemic and sensitive potential. In this article we seek to socialize part of the work that we, the teachers, assistants and student assistants of the Admission to Letters Course, carry out around academic writing: the conceptions of writing that we handle, the objectives that guide us, the dynamics of classes that we propose and the challenges that both students and teaching staff face. We will focus on the approach to a teaching material that we jointly developed in order to guide the writing task.