The Practice of the Rewriting and the Continuing Education in Interior of the Amazon: The Cohesion in Focus

The aim of this article is to present a qualitative analysis of the cohesive resources used by teachers under instruction at PARFOR, in the country of Amazonas, in a writing and rewriting process. The written production of the legend of the Amazon river dolphin -- one of the most disseminated legends in that region -- was used with those teachers. We have followed the Didactical Sequence model assumed by Schneuwly, Dolz and Noverraz (2007) for the teaching of that kind of discourse genre. Once we have noticed some improper uses of cohesion resources, based in Antunes (2005), we have asked them to rewrite their texts. The results show that those teachers make cohesion mistakes even in the rewriting process. Adapted from the source document