¿Es posible caracterizar la escritura de estudiantes universitarios?

Abstract

This paper presents the results obtained during a doctoral investigation where 138 texts produced by university students of four institutions and two areas of knowledge were analyzed. The purpose of this paper is to describe the relationship between written communicative competence; written apprehension and the student institution in the sample. This research contributes to clarify some factors that influence the written communicative competence among undergraduate students. The source comes from the correlation within the linguistic and contextual variable as well as the writing apprehension. The results show that there is a moderate correlation between written communication competence and the student institution; which is attributed to the compulsory subjects closely related to writing. However; it is essential to find out more about the writing processes and contextual variables to provide more evidence to enable generalization of findings.