Abstract

Writing is a complex skill, even more so, if the student does not handle the generic structure of institutionalized practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the most frequent errors that novice students make when writing and rewriting an academic genre of a narrative type at the micro, macro and superstructural level, as well as the effectiveness of indirect corrective feedback in the rewriting process. To do this, a quantitative method was used in order to count the types of errors that the subjects make in a first and second writing. The findings show that errors occur at different levels of discourse: microstructural, macrostructural and superstructural. However, just normative errors persist once the texts are revised and rewritten.