¿A qué se deben las dificultades que los estudiantes están enfrentando en la apropiación del conocimiento de campos de saber específico? Tienen estas dificultades que ver con sus modos de leer y escribir? ;Qué hace la Universidad al respecto Preguntas como estas hacen parte de las agendas de los investigadores interesados en responder a la hipótesis según la cual los problemas de lectura y escritura académica que enfrentan los jóvenes que ingresan a la Universidad son externos al espacio formativo universitario y se deben haber resuelto previamente. Frente a esta consideración, en este trabajo se plantea que la alfabetización académica, más que un estado se concibe como un proceso continuo y dinámico que se debe entender en su especificidad. En este sentido, precisan que las prácticas de lectura y escritura que se exigen en la educación superior son también específicas, por lo cual es necesario trabajar con quienes ingresan en este nivel formativo en la perspectiva de resolver su relación con las nuevas lógicas de comprensión y producción del conocimiento. Los autores hacen un llamado para que los aportes de este tipo de investigaciones se articulen a las directrices curriculares sobre lectura y escritura en la Universidad, de manera que se propicien nuevas orientaciones didácticas y pedagógicas que contribuyan a la formación integral. Frente a esta consideración, en este trabajo se plantea que la alfabetización académica, más que un estado se concibe como un proceso continuo y dinámico que se debe entender en su especificidad. En este sentido, precisan que las prácticas de lectura y escritura que se exigen en la educación superior son también específicas, por lo cual es necesario trabajar con quienes ingresan en este nivel formativo en la perspectiva de resolver su relación con las nuevas lógicas de comprensión y producción del conocimiento. Los autores hacen un llamado para que los aportes de este tipo de investigaciones se articulen a las directrices curriculares sobre lectura y escritura en la Universidad, de manera que se propicien nuevas orientaciones didácticas y pedagógicas que contribuyan a la formación integral.

The Rebel is the memoir of a revolutionary woman, Leonor Villegas de Magnon (1876-1955), who was a fiery critic of dictator Porfirio Diaz and a conspirator and participant in the Mexican Revolution. Villegas de Magnon rebelled against the ideals of her aristocratic class and against the traditional role of women in her society. In 1910 Villegas moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas, where she continued supporting the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Council) and as a fiery editorialist in Laredo newspapers. In 1913, she founded La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross) to serve as a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces active from the border region to Mexico City. Many women like Villegas de Magnon from both sides of the border risked their lives and left their families to support the revolution. Years later, however, when their participation had still been unacknowledged and was running the risk of being forgotten, Villegas de Magnon decided to write her personal account of this history. The Rebel covers the period from 1876 through 1920, documenting the heroic actions of the women. Written in the third person with a romantic fervor, the narrative interweaves autobiography with the story of La Cruz Blanca. Until now Villegas de Magnon's written contributions have remained virtually unrecognized - peripheral to both Mexico and the United States, fragmented by a border. Not only does her work attest to the vitality, strength and involvement of women in sociopolitical concerns, but it also stands as one of the very few written documents that consciously challenges stereotyped misconceptions of Mexican Americans held by both Mexicans and Anglo-Americans.

WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.

Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

This book provides both young and senior scientists with a comparative view of current theoretical models of text production. Models are clearly situated in their historical context, scrutinized in their further evolution with a fine-grained observation of differences between models. Very complete and informative to read, this book will be useful to people working in teaching of writing or studying this specific human activity.