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- 2 - 3pm - Webinar: "Writing centers in Latin America: What, Who, and How?" - with Dr. Violeta Molina-Natera.
- with Violeta Molina-Natera
Writing centers are institutional initiatives that foster the strengthening of academic literacy. To this end, universities in Latin America have set out alternative strategies to their traditional courses over the past several years. At the same time, writing centers have started to be acknowledged at the internal, local, and regional levels. This webinar will present a description of the writing centers in Latin America, of their importance in the universities, and of the players in the development of these centers. Tendencies and current conceptions, the main operational strategies, and the writing centers' adaptations to the current scenario will also be discussed.
Dr. Violeta Molina-Natera holds a PhD in Education, a Master’s degree in Linguistics and Spanish, and she is a speech therapist. Currently, she is the director of the Department of Communication and Language at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana at Cali, Colombia. Dr. Natera is a member of Grupo de Investigación Comunicación y Lenguajes, under research stream Estudios del Lenguaje. She is the founder and former director of Centro de Escritura Javeriano, the founder and former president of La Red Latinoamericana de Centros y Programas de Escritura (RLCPE). She is a member of International Writing Center Association (IWCA), of Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura en Educación Superior y Contextos Profesionales (ALES), and the Transnational Writing Research Consortium.
- 3.30 - 4.30pm - Webinar: "Identifying disciplinary conventions as a strategy to improve scientific writing for international publication”.
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-with Gabriella PavesiAimed at graduate students, this webinar will present strategies for the identification of disciplinary writing conventions in different areas of study, and how to use them to write a clearer and more publishable manuscript. By focusing on textual elements and patterns present in published articles, the instructor will guide participants towards understanding writing conventions, identifying them in the reference articles, and using them to improve their own writing. For this webinar, participants should bring two (2) scientific articles which are considered seminal in their research area.
Gabriella Pavesi é Mestra em Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês pela Universidade de São Paulo, e tutora no Laboratório de Letramento Acadêmico (LLAC) da USP desde 2018. Formada em Letras-Inglês pela Brooklyn College, nos Estados Unidos, foi redatora e revisora de jornais em revistas publicados nessa faculdade. Ministrou cursos de Escrita Acadêmica em Inglês pelo LLAC como extensão e como disciplina de Pós-Graduação para alunos de diversas áreas e em unidades da USP como o Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME) e a Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru.