Analysis of relevance of the competences for the academic writing with the students of the Experimental Sciences Majors

Abstract

The research was carried out in the Experimental Sciences Majors which included the students of Chemical Biology, Laboratory and Exact Sciences. Most of these students show limited basic competences to make academic writings due to the weak knowledge of reading and writing techniques received by ​​Language and Literature. Proposing literacy as a transversal axis to enhance the skills of future professionals. The objective was to determine the competences of students for academic writing. The inquiry has a qualitative approach, non-experimental design, documentary, and field, supported by the inductive method. The sample was non-probabilistic of intentional type constituted by 160 students. The technique of data collection was the survey with its instrument the questionnaire. The results obtained established that learners have little interest in reading, practice writing just for academic assignments making mistakes or omissions, so they have problems when writing specialized content. It is concluded that they have not mastered the minimum skills to write academic papers according to the level they are studying. It is recommended to development reading, writing and research initiation training workshops