A brief socio-rhetorical analysis of the academic abstract genre

Abstract

The academic routine is permeated by the production and circulation of key genres to the success of social practices and the preservation, transformation and teaching / learning of cultural traditions. The academic abstract genre is one of those genres that usually occurs with other genres such as academic article, dissertation, thesis and oral communication. In order to compare the rhetoric configuration of examples of three modalities of the academic summary genre (BIASI-RODRIGUES, 2009), namely: congress’s abstracts, summaries accompanying the academic article genre and abstracts accompanying dissertations and theses, we have analyzed the samples in the light of the proposed methodology of Biasi-Rodrigues (1998) and the theoretical considerations of Motta-Roth and Hendges (2010) and Biasi-Rodrigues (2009). The investigation suggested distinctions in the rhetorical description of the three modalities of academic summary gender analyzed and raised new approach possibilities of what is described by Biasi-Rodrigues (2009).