Writing is a complex process shaped by personal history and institutional factors. It is considered a historical and ideological practice that is specialized within cognitive and disciplinary contexts. Academic writing involves negotiating practices between university settings, disciplinary epistemologies, and curricular requirements.

1. Becoming a writer is a complex process of acknowledging, using, and accessing to
writing practices affected by the own personal history (Herrington y Curtis, 2000),
and by institutional and disciplinary requirements and expectations, particularly,
from disciplinary and university/institutional cultures (Hall y López, 2011).
Either faculty members or students…
Literacies practices in Higher Education
Writing is conceived as a historical and
ideological practice and thus highly
cognitively specialized (Bazerman, 2006;
Kalman, 2008).
Writing is an intertwined practice
between university/institutional contexts
and disciplinary epistemologies (Lea y
Street, 1998; Carlino, 2008).
Academic Disciplines
units
Curriculum
What counts
as writing
centers?