Letter of Introduction

Dear all,

              After having worked in three papers in 2012, I started a new course this year in ESP for which I have worked collaboratively with two peers Viviana Rodriguez and Alejandra Lacana. This experience has proved absolutely fruitful on both personal and professional grounds; each of us contributed differently either writing, investigating, or editing.

            We have studied research articles (RAs) mainly from medicine and education; we have analysed moves in introductions, abstracts, results, discussions and conclusions. This process has enlightened me mainly in process writing and proof reading; writing takes time and analyzing effort. In other words, quoting T.S. Elliot (1943):

"Trying to use words, and every attempt

Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning..."

                                                                                        The Four Quartets, T. S. Elliot, 1943. East Coker. Harcourt. p. 13

           Finally, I hope to keep on growing academically by actually writing about my own action research papers.

          Kind regards,

                               Carla