Abstract

This research aims to identify and characterize the written textual classes produced by law students during their training at two Chilean universities and, on this basis, to present two didactic proposals to approach such textual classes. Framed in qualitative research, we designed an interview for professors who taught in specific institutions in order to recognize the textual classes used in the training of lawyers. As central results, we identify the main textual classes produced by law students; and, in addition, we propose a taxonomy to classify and characterize the registered classes. Based on this, we developed two proposals for teaching such classes: a general one, at the level of families of textual classes; and a specific one, at the level of each textual class. In conclusion, our work is a breakthrough in overcoming some gaps in the field of teaching legal writing.