Prácticas y representaciones sociales de la escritura académica en la Universidad (Pregrado).

Abstract

The invention of writing in the history of mankind simply did not involve the acquisition of a registration technical language, but a different way to know, to differentiate and exercise control (Olson, 1998; Ong, 1987). The writing has been important in the cultural history of mankind and remains in the many forms it takes and new literacias that opens in the modern world (Tolsckinsky and Simo, 2001). Goody and Watts (1963) in his seminal essay "The consequences of literacy" discussed how literacy, while writing, affects social and cultural issues such as collective memory, self-image community, political participation, complexity knowledge and cultural repertoire, the division of labor, complexity and differentiation of institutions and social stratification.