Writing at University: Difficulties in the Vestibular Essays and Perspectives for Law Course Student

In this article, we reflect upon the incoming students’ writing difficulties from a Brazilian university. From the data collected in the vestibular results for the Law course and an essay analysis, we propose reflections that guide the work of writing in the university, with a view to overcoming these difficulties. The analytical procedures that we adopt combine notions of text plan (ADAM, 2011) and context (VAN DIJK, 2012; 2016), as well as studies on writing review (PINTO, 2015; HEURLEY, 2006). For the discussion, we use an essay drawn from a corpus consisting of texts produced during 2017 admission selection process to the Law course