The main factors that influence the writing of academic documents were determined, for which the Brainstorming and MICMAC techniques were applied.The study was reported as nonexperimental, cross-sectional and descriptive.24 ninth-semester students, belonging to the Systems Engineering Program, University of Cartagena, were consulted.In the results, the students present weaknesses in the writing of documents, for aspects such as: limited lexicon, omission of important concepts, inexperience when implementing norms to quote texts from other authors.