Practices of writing and argumentation in a scientific event for graduate students: a study based on bakhtin's concept of complete utterance

Abstract

This work investigates the participation of graduate students as authors and readers of articles in an online scientific event in order to verify if they interact throw complete utterances. Bakhtin's concept of complete utterance and the principle of reading and writing with functional purposes were used as theoretical basis in order to support a better understanding of the learning context in which the research is inserted. The event in which one the data was collected takes place on a blog, under a discipline of reading and text production, which invites students to write and publish their papers, comment on other three papers and participate in the discussion on the post of your own articles. To conduct the case of study, thirty comments from students were selected, constituents of two posts of articles. The result of the analysis suggests that the students recognize a situation of interaction and showed their engagement while they were participating in the activity, and exercising their skills of reading, writing and argumentation.