STANDARDIZATION MANUALS FOR ACADEMIC WORK: dissemination of the Brazilian ABNT standards in higher
education institutions in João Pessoa/PB.
ABNT; normalization manual; universities
It is notorious that in recent years the publicization of academic and scientific data has been considerable. This aspect means that those who have access to these data can analyze and reflect on the way they are disseminated, including in this list of professional analysis the technical knowledge, especially in the area of standardization. It is important to emphasize the existence of imprecision in organizational instruments, such as the preparation and publication of institutional manuals, leading to reflection on how some institutions disseminate this process in the wrong way, thus inducing students and/or researchers to make mistakes. The research has as its guiding question: How are the rules established in the Brazilian norms of ABNT for academic works being disseminated in the normalization manuals of higher education institutions in João Pessoa/PB? Thus, the dissertation in focus has as its general objective to analyze the accuracy of the content of the normalization manuals of higher education institutions in the city of João Pessoa/PB in accordance with the ABNT norms for academic works. Methodologically, the study is characterized as an exploratory-descriptive research of bibliographic and documental nature, with qualitative analysis. With the accomplishment of the research it was concluded that there is imprecision in the organizational documents to which it had access, where the perceived errors concern the basic instructions, bringing general suggestions from the wider standardizing organisms. This mistaken information, besides bringing damage to the local community, i.e., to researchers and students who, due to institutional requirements, use these manuals for standardization and presentation of these works to obtain titles, when used in broader contexts, for example, when accessed by external individuals who may consult such institutional guidelines for studies, to clear basic doubts, can promote the error even in more specialized users.