Academic literacy practices on Facebook

The events herein analyzed integrate the data bank of a research project that involved participant observation developed throughout the years of 2012 and 2013 in a Brazilian profes sional graduate program. The analysis makes visible that literacy practices developed by participants are oriented by the "skills model" (Lea & Street, 1998), which leads to the "institutional practice of mystery" (LILLIS; SCOTT, 2007). In this context, it is interesting to note that teachers' writings can be characterized as a hybrid of scholastic genres and Facebook genres.