ABSTRACT
This research begins with an analysis of the needs of a population Colombian university student, who require the acquisition of academic text writing skills. We propose to analyze the written process by presenting an outline of different theoretical models. Furthermore, we will focus on the notion of the “intermediary writer” as a step in the development of written competence. The intermediate writer, unlike novice writers, can articulate, understand, and perform well-structured tasks at the cognitive level, which reveals its capacity to transform them. These qualities allow us to place this kind of writer in a “mode of understanding knowledge” due to the characteristics that it exhibits prior to the writing process. Thus, he should not be considered as a novice writer, since he has the capacity to go beyond the simple enunciation of knowledge, however, he can not be considered as an “experienced writer”, since his capacity of writing to transform Knowledge.
Keywords:
written production; beginner writer; intermediate writer; experienced writer
