Representations about the process of writing the final paper in memes on the page TCC da Depressão

Abstract

The investigation of academic writing has been a growing object of evaluations, problematizations and questions expressed by undergraduate and graduate students in different environments and interactions enabled by digital platforms. Focusing on the universe of digital social networks, we aim at analyzing representations about the process of writing the final paper expressed in memes on the page TCC da Depressão. Based on conceptions of the Bakhtin Circle on the ideological and dialogic functioning of language and on studies that approach the writing of academic-scientific texts, we carried out a qualitative and interpretative analysis of representations about the final paper expressed in three memes selected from page TCC da Depressão, on Facebook. The results of the analysis pointed out that, despite they circulate in a space whose purpose is to share impressions and evaluative assessments about the experience in the process of writing the final paper, the selected memes also expressed negative representations about this experience, associating the process of writing the final paper to the image of suffering, anguish, fear and as an act of aggression. We believe that such representations can contribute to intensify, among students, inhibition, procrastination, psychological suffering, even school leaving, instead of establishing more proactive postures in relation to the writing of the text and committed to their own the student’s training.