At the threshold of academic writing

tension, pressure, and invention

Abstract

The outline of this article is based on a reflection on the vicissitudes of academic writing and its points of convergence and divergence with writing in general. In this way, the article aims to analyze the conditions under which academic writing can become a place for experience, in its profound sense of formation and transformation of the self. To this end, aesthetic writing workshops were held with stricto sensu graduate students, characterized as a space for experimentation with the word. The experience of writer's block and the conflict between authorship and scientific norm are nodes of discussion fundamentally lateralized to the thinking of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. Consequently, the importance of recovering the procedural dimension of writing and the intimacy with words that seems to be obstructed when students enter the university environment is highlighted. Based on the experience with the workshops and the bibliographic review, we developed arguments to think about research writing as a threshold experience, permeated by negotiations between creative practices and institutional demands.