When concluding his tour of the United States during the months of September to November of 1895, Justo Sierra Méndez (1848-1911) expressed his bewilderment at a society that has observed "at full ...steam." With a series of questions, the Mexican jurist and writer refuses to finish his travel chronicle, En tierra yankee (Notas a todo vapor) with a historical and political reflection on American society, and instead offers his readers a rhapsodic "examination of conscience" that inquires about the fate of their own people. In this way, the closing of the work synthesizes its global structure, in which the trip abroad allows the political and literary articulation of the interior. In the chronicle of Sierra Méndez, the United States, viewed in a fragmented and confused manner from the railroad network that linked Mexico with its northern neighbor during the Porfiriato, becomes a stage for the realization of a performative act of Latin American identity. Mexican historian Enrique Krauze, in a recent book on the most representative figures of political ideas in Latin America during the twentieth century, suggests that the chronicle of Sierra Méndez represents an antecedent of the culturalist ideology that would materialize in Ariel (1900) by José Enrique Rodó (1871-1917), after the war between the United States and Spain (1846-1848). According to Krauze, the work of Sierra Méndez -which first appeared as a series of notes in the illustrated magazine El Mundo and published as a book in 1898-reflects the disenchantment of Mexican liberalism with the political-economic model of the United States. and a critique of its foreign policy towards Latin America, which would turn out to be an affirmation of the Mexican (and Latin American) cultural identity that brings the liberal intellectual closer to traditional Mexican conservatism. From this thesis of an avant la lettre Arielism in the chronicle of Sierra Méndez, the present work will analyze how the modality of the train trip and the rhetoric of the travel chronicle contribute to the articulation of a cultural identity that has American modernity as a backdrop.
A writing model is defined as teaching tool that permit to train students in writing activity through a conscious practice. That means they have to consider all the rules and options they have at the ...moments they produce a writing text. Thus, this model must consider these general resources in order to reach students develop their own writing skills, they can write better and therefore the get their style. The objective of this study is to analyze, describe and present a methodological writing model based on the self-corrections (a college student case) that helps college students to improve their academical textual production by writing everyday text.
Un modelo de escritura se define como una herramienta pedagógica que permite entrenar a los estudiantes en la actividad de la escritura mediante una práctica consciente. Lo que significa que ellos deben considerar todas las reglas y opciones que poseen al momento de crear un texto. En consecuencia, el modelo debe considerar estos recursos generales para lograr que los estudiantes creen sus propias habilidades de escritura, escriban mejor y desarrollen su estilo. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar, describir y presentar un modelo metodológico de escritura basado en la autocorrección (el caso de una estudiante) que ayude a los estudiantes universitarios a mejorar su producción textual académica mediante la producción de textos cotidianos.
