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FUSTER CAUBET, Yanet. The author’s voice in undergraduate students’ written productions: between others’ discourse and their own discourse. InterCambios [online]. 2025, vol.12, n.1, e204.  Epub 01-Dic-2025. ISSN 2301-0118.  https://doi.org/10.29156/inter.12.1.4.

The challenges that writing represents for university students go far beyond the mere need to textualize ideas and put them in dialogue with the theoretical approaches that support those ideas. The construction of positioning as an author is a great challenge at this stage, since it involves the appropriation of academic discourse and entry into a new community. In this context, I understand that the presence of the author is linked to the notion of personal agency, that is, with the ability to act and make decisions deliberately, where one assumes that one is the maker of that text through a mediated process for reason and takes responsibility for what was said.

I present an approach to the writing process of eight monographs carried out by undergraduate students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Library Science (Faculty of Information and Communication, Udelar) with the purpose of knowing how they approach the construction of authorship of their own texts. In the findings I propose that students do not usually assume themselves as authors of their writings, in the sense in which it is conceived in this work.

Based on this evidence, I propose some recommendations so that students can be deliberately accompanied on this path of building themselves as subjects who write with agency.

Palabras clave : academic writing; final degree project; research; authorial voice; agency.

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