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ZAMBRANO, Jusmeidy  e  GARCIA, Marisol. Writing abstracts with engineering students. Letras [online]. 2014, vol.56, n.90, pp.31-51. ISSN 0459-1283.

Writing at the University reveals that the understanding and production of texts is an issue that needs rethinking from the perspective of teaching. The aim of this work is to describe an experience in writing abstracts of research articles with students of Mechanic Engineering. To do so, we carried out action-research in which we gathered different versions of the texts produced by the students. We also interviewed them in relation to the process they had undertaken. The results show that the writing of a genre during one semester is a learning experience about the genre itself and of the discursive conventions of the discipline, which the students highly value. Also, reflection upon their own production, and that of their peers, transform the meaning they that handle of the writing task.

Palavras-chave : learning; action research; academic writing.