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discourse
explanatory texts
argumentative texts.
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Abstract
This article presents part of the theoretical framework of the research work entitled “Writing, Knowledge, and Technoculture”, carried out in 2003 – 2004. The purpose of the aforementioned research was to diagnose the capacity of first year undergraduate students at Universidad del Valle vis-à-vis reading, writing, and the use of communications and information technological devices. Part of the methodology was to devise a survey, and a reading and writing test. The results were then analyzed independently after collating these with some of the survey’s variables. This article presents a typology of the discourses, from a social communications point of view, in which the methodological proposal is supported as part of a conceptual basis when designing and analyzing the implemented tests.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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