Provisional Title Collaborative academic writing in higher education NB: This version of the text has been slightly edited by the IRC team on the authors’ request. Project Team Adriana Cardoso, Carla Teixeira, Isabel Sebastião Institution The didactic experiment is carried out at the Lisbon School of Education, which is part of the network of polytechnic higher education establishments. It belongs to the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, which comprises seven other higher schools: Institute of Engineering, Accounting and Business School, School of Communication and Media Studies, School of Dance, Theatre and Film School, School of Music, and School of Health Technology. The School of Education offers degrees in Basic Education, Artistic and Cultural Mediation, Visual Arts and Technologies, Community Music (in association with the School of Music), and Sociocultural Community Development. All the graduate curricular programmes offer a curricular unit focused on the development of writing skills. However, it is only the degree in Basic Education that offers a curricular unit entirely dedicated to academic writing (Portuguese Academic Writing, 6 credits), which is allocated to the first year of the curricular plan (1 st semester). The Degree in Basic Education belongs to the 1st Cycle of Studies of Bologna and aims at training the graduates in the various areas of knowledge, enabling them to intervene in the fields of education, namely Free Time Activities, Museums, Libraries, among others. In the last few academic years, about 85 students have enrolled in the first year of the course. Importantly, the BA degree in Basic Education complies with the number of credits required to apply to the 2nd Cycle of studies of Bologna in the field of Pre-school Education and Teaching of the 1st and 2nd Cycle of Basic Education (6 to 10 years and 10 to 12 years, respectively). brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa