Propuesta para la escritura de resúmenes y artículos científicos odontológicos

Abstract

Reading and writing are fundamental working tools for those involved in dental sciences. To be a good dentist also implies being a good reader and a competent author of texts, used and produced in our own discipline. When citing previous studies and publishing papers, we manage our incorporation and permanency in the dental community. In Hispano-American Dentistry, five discourse genres are used, which are clearly differentiated one each other, not only for it structure but also for the communicative purposes they intend and the role or the position that the authors assume: abstract, case report, review article, systematic review and research article. Most of the research project and professional practice of dentists goes around these genres, communicated by written or oral means. In this paper, we offer the Dental Hispano-American community some useful general suggestions to read, write, publish and teach academic discourse. Base on the results of discourse studies carried on during the last 6 years, we describe and exemplify the rhetorical sections of the before mentioned genres, and the moves that distinguish them.