Resumen Una comunidad academica debe desarrollar y fortalecer sus competencias investigativas y comunicativas desde una perspectiva linguistico-textual, para lograr su participacion e inclusion en redes de conocimiento, en comunidades disciplinares y en ambitos institucionales e investigativos. De ahi que los docentes y estudiantes deben formarse de manera continua en lo que hoy en dia se denomina alfabetizacion academica de orden superior que involucra de forma directa la formacion investigativa, dado que la compresion y construccion de conocimiento cientifico y disciplinar son actividades discursivas. Abstract An academic community must develop and must strengthen their research and communicational competences from a textual-linguistic perspective, in order to participate and to be included in knowledge networks, disciplinary communities and research and institutional fields. Therefore teachers and students must be educated continuously on the so-called high-order academic literacy which directly involves research education, because understanding and construction of disciplinary and scientific knowledge are discursive activities.