Academic writing of an essay mediated by virtual collaborative learning

Abstract

The study presented below is related to a research work carried out during the first semester of year 2012 concerning a group of 19 students belonging to the Education Master program of the Faculty of Education of Universidad de Concepción, Chile. The group took the course “To read and write in the XXI century”, whose purpose is to enhance academic writing by means of the production of a scientific essay. Thanks to the improvement of previous methodological experiences a didactic outline has been designed; it links the development of the academic writing with the support of technological tools which includes a series of lessons that systematically help the students to advance in the writing work of the text with the backing of a digital writing scheme (DWS, or EDE, esquema digital de escritura in Spanish)