ACADEMIC GENRES AND DATABASE: THE WRITTEN PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The written production in higher education has pointed to difficulties of students in relation to academic genres. Therefore, this article aims to present an experience conducted between two disciplines pointing out the benefits of this integration for the academic written production. For this, it was analyzed the use of didactic sequence for the development of written production of expanded abstracts, in order to alleviate such problematic, with students of the 3rd period of the course Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas of IFNMG Almenara campus in the first semester of 2018, involving the disciplines Gêneros Acadêmicos and Banco de Dados. For this, the Action Research methodology was used in order to structure the writing process of the discursive genre expanded abstract, seeking the understanding, reflection and solutions to a problem identified in the pedagogical practice itself. From the analysis of the genres produced and the students' answers to a questionnaire at the end of the interdisciplinary work, it is considered that the objectives related to the discipline of Banco de Dados and Gêneros Acadêmicos were achieved, given that the students were able to correlate theoretical concepts of the disciplines and apply them in a seminar presentation, and present an expanded abstract consistent with the characteristics of the genre at the end of the didactic sequence.