Main difficulties of novel university students when preparing a scientific text

Abstract

The present research-action work is a descriptive mixed analysis of the micro-writing, macro-writing, methodological and writing in a public presentation errors committed by 46 novel psychology students when they making a compilation of scientific articles for an academic subject; choosing the highest quality project of the semester and comparing it with other academic works of the course. The objective of this pedagogical experience is based on the fact that students must learn researching skills such as important in research as the ability to obtain reliable and valid scientific information in from different databases, synthesizing all these data in a genuine document that is administrated by specific rules of writing and finally, they must make a public presentation of the results in a classroom within a stipulated time. Principal conclusions of this study indicate that university students have significant lacks when it comes to making an integrated and structured summary based on a specific regulation. © 2020 Universidad de Extremadura. All rights reserved.