State of textual production in college students and its impact on the globalizing context

Abstract

Within the program of Social Communication at Unad Palmira, there is a continuous need for the university student to reproduce the relevant information during the learning process, for which it is essential to use tools and habits of reading and writing, allowing not only gain a grade in the courses but to reflect that the way the students read and write is the same way they assimilate information and the scientific knowledge itself. That is why as a future professional, a social communicator will face a globalized context, where the quality of textual production will be reflected in the consistency, objectivity and respect for semantic and grammatical rules that build comprehension with all kinds of worldwide readers, being competitive with other professionals producing writings and trained internationally, so that their writings meet the communication demands of all types of readers using new technologies to access their work from anywhere in the world. Overall, textual production indicates the degree of quality in the communication given with the proper attention to global diversity. It represents greater importance to the term globalization for the present investigation, which is established as the society of knowledge, with an unified stage for the standardization of contents and cultural habits, with information that modifies either the everyday environment and spatio-temporal experiences of users, and finally the production, distribution and handling information as structural elements of the economic and cultural global activities. Globalization comes to participate in the investigation as a modeller of reality which faces the future social communicator, demanding quality to compete with the many elements presented in the international level, and which only leaves a space for the best storytellers and information producers. Similarly, the development of technology has generated in textual production practices a bigger effort to build and enrich their own knowledge, without falling into the copies of the reports transcribed by other authors, which leads on getting a better grade even when in many cases the quality of the content could be unknown, moving the work object away from knowledge under the student’s own responsibility.The results presented in this research are based on the solution of the questions that were worked during the development of the program and are used to measure the level of quality factors in writing, punctuation, knowledge of the subject and observed joint text in written work developed in the present subject, for example, on the subject “Social Development Project.”