Elizabeth Maria da Silva

Letramento: um fenômeno plural

This article has the main objective of discussing three literacy approaches: critical (BARTON; HAMILTON, 2000, GEE, 2000), socio-pragmatic (MEY, 2001) and socio-rhetoric (BAZERMAN, 2007). Based on this discussion, it is possible to observe that the defenders of these approaches share the same principle, although they use different names and stress different aspects - both the social and individual factors seem to interfere in the format of the literacy practices demonstrated by the subjects.

Correlação entre carta-protesto e histórico de letramento do candidato: uma análise de redações do vestibular

Considering that some institutions, as the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), are now asking in the composition test that the candidates write a specific textual genre - and not, as before, a free style composition - in most of the exams to attend the university, the present paper aims at (1) assessing the required lettering practices in the production of a protest letter, as asked in the exam for the UFCG in 2007, and (2) investigate the correlation between the practices shown by the candidates in the production of the letter, and his/her lettering background. For such a goal, a descriptive-interpretive research was carried out, whose corpus was constituted by the test applied in the referred exam, as well as by a sample of the letters produced by the candidates, in addition to interviews with those candidates. The data were analyzed based on the studies on critical lettering (BATON; HAMILTON, 2000; GEE, 2000), and suggest that the lettering history of the candidates constitutes a decisive factor for the mobilization of lettered practices in compositions.

A escrita de estudantes na universidade: uma análise das dimensões dos indivíduos

From a questioning about the conflict established between academic writing learning and academic writing educational expectations, we suggest that the “friendly supports” are one of the alternatives which students use to try to deal with this conflict. These supports can also be useful for students to recognize, gradually, the existence of authority and power relations permeating academic text production, as well as the need to incorporate the social role and identity required by the academy.