Producción del ensayo argumentativo en estudiantes de dos Establecimientos de Educación Media técnico-profesional de la provincia de ñuble. Resultados de un diagnóstico

Abstract

The article presents the results of evaluation applied to 3rd and 4th graders of two technical professional high schools of Ñuble province, with the aim to determine the domain in written production of an argumentative essay. A descriptive quantitative research was held with a cross design to a group composed of 202 students. The results show an acceptable performance in an essay production with a 60% of the total sample, where the best achieved dimension is adaptation and the lowest ones parts of speech and argument, revealing difficulties to write and communicate ideas, recognize and apply basic structures of argumentative discourse together with the development of analytic and reflexive thinking.