The Process Of Rewriting In The Teaching Of The Genre Review

The writing of academic genres demands proficiency and reflection and must be viewed as a continuous rewriting process marked by many linguistic-textual adjustments. Believing in the possibility of teaching this process to the students, we discuss in this paper the rewriting of the genre 'review' by students of the undergraduate course of Languages and Literatures from the Federal University of Ceara - Brazil. Through Fabre-Cols' theoretical propositions about the rewriting of texts and Swales' theory of genre, we analyzed the changes that the students made to the genre for a subject called "Reading and Writing of Academic Texts". The data show that all the changes are directly related to the genre's characteristic rhetorical moves, which the students were able to internalize during the oriented rewriting activity in the classroom.

Review; Genre; Rewriting; Rhetorical moves