Scientific writing at educational levels

Abstract

The research aims to determine the degree of scientific writing at the educational levels: undergraduate and postgraduate of the Universidad Laica "Eloy Alfaro de Manabí”, Chone Extension. Scientific writing is not always an easy practice to handle, a bibliographical study was carried out with a review of different scientific articles that show results related to scientific writing, with a qualitative design; A non-probabilistic convenience sampling was used in a sample of 66 participants who were given a diagnostic evaluation survey. The result was that the most common scientific writing problems presented by undergraduate and graduate students are associated with scientific reading, difficulty in preparing scientific articles, use of grammatical rules, use of bibliographic citations and training in scientific writing.