Rhetorical Moves in the Discursive Genre of First-Year Undergraduate Theses with Fieldwork at the University of Costa Rica
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| Natura: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2026 |
| Descrizione: | This study aims to propose a structure of rhetorical moves for the discursive genre of first-year undergraduate theses within the framework of Research Course II, part of the Integrated Humanities II program at the Atlantic Campus of the University of Costa Rica. The study develops a theoretical definition of this genre and identifies its situational, structural, and discursive features in relation to the macro-genre of the Final Degree Project (TFG). Adopting a qualitative, descriptive, and cross-sectional design, the study analyzes a corpus of 15 fieldwork-based theses, selected intentionally according to completion and quality criteria during the second semester of 2024. The proposed model was constructed in three stages: review of the Research Course II syllabus, rhetorical discourse analysis of theses, and validation by expert faculty members. Given the numerous similarities between their rhetorical moves and steps, it can be concluded that the thesis constitutes a variant of the TFG macro-genre, rather than a separate genre. It operates as a transitional space between formative academic writing and specialized research writing. Furthermore, it functions as the initial rhetorical framework for the TFG genre, thus laying the cognitive and discursive foundations for the future development of the latter in higher degrees. |
| Stato: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lingua: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/3110 |
| Accesso online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/raie/article/view/3110 |
| Keyword: | movida retórica géneros académicos alfabetización académica enseñanza de la escritura rhetorical move academic fields academic literacy writing instruction estratégia retórica áreas académicas literacia académica ensino da escrita |