The Authorial Voice in the Academic Writing of Social Science Students at the University of Havana

Writing is an activity intrinsic to the field of science. Communicating efficiently a research result is a practice that implies the critical approach of diverse sources and references. In this complex process, the scientific text becomes a battle ground between the author's voice and the voices of all those scientists, whose previous approaches to the subject also erect the author ' s own text. Based on this academic polyphony, the aim of this article is to analyze some of the most frequent strategies used by social science students to construct their written discourse in the scenario of the University of Havana. The results of the study point out that these authors frequently employ in their texts external criteria, a hermetic and bombastic tone, an impersonal grammatical construction, the inclusion of various disciplines and a prose based on the sender that does not take into account the perspective of the addressee.