<p>The present article is an abridgement of the investigative advances in the relations writing, oral tradition and production of written narrative texts, as elements of the same ontological process of representation of reality, in a period between 1987 and 2016. It aims to gather information leading to an understanding of how writing works as an academic and thought process, and how through the motivation of oral narratives the production of written texts can be strengthened. The review was developed by selecting articles from specialized journals, research papers, analytical and thematic sheets and categorizing the information in the three thematic axes mentioned above. These axes support from the theoretical part, but also practical, the research project titled from the narratives of oral tradition to written narrative texts. The relevant review showed that the study places greater emphasis on writing than on oral tradition because the first one presents a broader<br>field of research since, for some authors, writing is taken as a process leading to the development of other Cognitive skills and extend your thinking process.</p>