Students as authors: an experience with reviews in the university

Abstract

We present a reflection about the ways in which the subject occupies the author’s position in academic writing through his participation in the Laboratório de Leitura e Escrita Acadêmica(LABEAL/UFSC). From theoretical assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis, we seek to understand how the subject signs himself as author, when he writes aiming “scientific objectivity”. Thus, we analyze the writing and rewriting of a review produced in the LABEAL focusing specially on the changes that occur from the first to the second writing with regard to authorship in these productions. In the analytical gesture, undertaken so far, we seek to show how the process of writing in academy consists and insists in an attempt “to contain” the constitutive heterogeneity of discourse and subject, in the struggle for the transparency of language and the senses in the name of scientific discourse. In this process, aiming for objectivity, the subject seeks to be constituted by assuming different positions, according to the production conditions, and trying to place himself in an acceptable gap that configures the author function in university.