Academic genres in the formation of the nursing professional:

In recent decades the role played by the various genres of academic discourse in the training of future university professionals as well as the multimodal component of these have been widely investigated. The present study seeks to examine the multimodal component of the main academic genres present in the training in two careers in the area of health: Nursing Technician taught by a professional technical institute and Nursing taught by a traditional university.Specifically we seek to: a) identify the main discursive genres with which students of these areas are trained; b) distinguish the main multisemiotic artifacts present in these genres; c) analyze the coherence relations between verbal and graphic modes that characterize these genres using the Rhetorical Structural Theory (RST).To achieve these objectives a corpus of academic texts used in the training process of both careers was built which was collected from the review of syllabi and interviews with key informants -teachers and students- of the discursive community involved.