Information Literacy, Scientific Writing and Scientific Education

ABSTRACT

Scientific education provides the world with knowledge advancement while promoting human education. It is a complex and dynamic process that demands integrated and interdisciplinary development of skills and competences, based on values, feelings and attitudes. We report here the experiences of a technical-scientific literacy laboratory, in a research group in scientific communication, at a Federal Institute. By articulating the work of a cognitive linguist, a librarian and a computer scientist, pedagogical activities are developed and technological teaching material is produced for regular classes and for on-site and online extension courses, based on a conceptual model that blends information literacy and scientific writing as a learning process, and thus guides the development of scientific research and the writing of academic texts.

Keywords:
Cognition; Language; Technology; Scientific communication; Scientific education; Information Literacy