Silva, Ana IsabelBalula, João Paulo2017-06-122017-06-122013-06http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4606The PISA results have been shown the Portuguese student’s difficulties in what it concerns to the level of literacy development on the fifteen’s. After three years of schooling one part of these students begins the higher education and the needs of literacy in reading and written skills increase. On the other hand, the knowledge society demands from the youth and adults, the day-to-day, the capacity to read and use the information in multiple settings and with origin in several sources. To aim these ambitions and expectations we have been developing a program designed to support to increase competences’ levels in literacy on reading and written working with students of a future social educators from the School of Education course (First Cycle of Social Studies). One of the main aspects that are worked here is the elaboration of the introduction and the conclusion. These are the most revisited texts by the evaluators and we think the most underestimated ones by the students, which conceptions we tell from the answers to specific activities in what concerns textual production. In both introduction and conclusion the distribution of the information requires selection processes, organization and prioritization and not only the simple reproduction of the same contents. From the presentation of one activity developed with two classes of the first year (eighty students) we propose: a) to describe the evolution of the proposal structures conceptions for the introduction and for the conclusion of developed works in academic context; b) to describe the concept that these students reveal about the (academic) written skill; c) to determine what importance is given to the reflection about the written process in order to make it efficient, from the reflexive documents analysis produced by students. Therefore we intent implicate students in the literacy competences’ development in the Knowledge Society.engSocial EducatorsTextual productionLiteracyWittingconference object