The abstract and the mobilization of the methodological resources in law thesis

Abstract

It discusses the law research in Brazil and the mobilization of the methodological resources of thesis defended from 2017 to 2019 at the Law Graduate Program from Universidade Federal do Paraná. It aims to analyze how the methodological resources of thesis defended from 2017 to 2019 at the Law Graduate Program, from Universidade Federal do Paraná, are mobilized by identifying the presence or absence of the abstract’s mandatory items (topic, objective, method, discussion and conclusion). The specific objectives are: a) to discuss the law research aspects in Brazil; b) to present the abstract as a fundamental abstract to represent the content and the methodological resources of the thesis; c) to characterize the Law graduate programs in Brazil; d) to categorize the thesis defended between 2017 and 2019, at the Law Graduate Program of Universidade Federal do Paraná, from the point of view of the mobilization of the methodological resources in the abstracts. It develops a descriptive research and it uses the content analysis to analyze and to present the research data. It uses the software Excel and Atlas.ti to organize and visualize the data. The topic and the objective are the items most presented in the abstracts. The method is the item that appears least in the abstracts. Only ten abstracts implicitly present all mandatory items in the abstract. The legal opinion model is very used in the abstract writing, which may indicate a confusion between scholarly writing and professional writing in the law domain.