Genres, Authorship and Audience in the Process of Creating a Digital Student Magazine

Abstract

The journals created by students are pedagogical projects that offer the opportunity to address the writing of different genres with a specific audience, a fundamental practice for potential authors. This article presents partial results of the research Rites of scientific initiation: the process of creating a digital student magazine, in order to analyze how a group of students of a degree in foreign languages ​​assumes the task of creating content for a jurnal Digital student, In the methodological framework of the systematization of experiences, the corpus composed of texts written by students and the data obtained through surveys, observation sheets and interviews are analyzed to answer the following questions: What discursive genres do students recognize as their own? of a digital magazine aimed at foreign language learners? And what genres do teachers consider should be incorporated into a student digital magazine? The results highlight the trial as the most common genus found in the corpus; also highlight instructive, advice and biographical stories of notorious significance in the experiences identified. It concludes in the importance of the academy for the conformation of personal experiences, autobiographical stories and life stories as legitimate references, not only for the search of writing topics, but also in relation to the effective use of rhetorical strategies and for the construction of authorship.