Writing in Veterinary Medicine

Abstract

Supporting myself in the evidential paradigm, in the studies of academic literacies, in the resumption of the distinction between empirical and discursive subject proposed by Corrêa (2011), and in the notions of the way of enunciation of writing and of textual genres, I try to discuss and exemplify the gestures of the writer in three scientific articles from journals – stratum B1 and B3 (Veterinary Medicine (VM) area, Bovine Reproduction sub-area) in order to analyze whether and how an additive process is evident in academic writing in this discipline. I conclude that the writer distances himself from the notion of stability of the discourse genre and inserts himself, in a productive tension, in the discursive game of the area, revealing, in a way, hidden dimensions of literacy practices of the discursive sphere in which the genre circulates. Replicas and allusions or references to other works are strategies for validating the research itself and input to promote the work itself and its future citation.