Grado de acceso y apropiación del texto expositivo en estudiantes preuniversitarios

Abstract

Students who have just entered university must start a new process of literacy (Carlino; 2005). Such a process is understood as the set of notions and strategies necessary to participate in the discursive culture of the specific disciplines of a particular knowledge. In order to manage the availability; access and appropiation (Kalman; 2003) of these new literacy practices and; in this way; be able to transform the students’ identity to make them become full members of such a culture (Ivanic; 1998); professors must facilitate the access to this new discursive practice and its appropiation. Understanding the degree of the students’ writing skills from their exams permits to analyze their needs and be able to establish some explicit evaluation criteria for them; considering what they can and what they cannot do. This; hence; may be a possible way to achieve the access and acquisition of that new culture. To do so; the analysis of the organization and development of information is performed; taking into account the hierarchization of information relative to the command of punctuation at a macrostructural level. 117 exams; written by students after finishing their secondary education; are analyzed.