La escritura como oportunidad para el pensamiento crítico

Abstract

Although critical thinking is often a taken for granted, there are still many things left to explore about it, because little attention has been given on the pedagogical level to critical thinking in college.In this project, writing tasks organized by cycles are proposed, based on the Approach also known aswriting as a situated social practice. This paper is devoted to identify the critical thinking processes that emerge when students of English at a university are involved in writing practices. Lastly, it is expected to find some sign of improvements on their critical thinking mental processes based on the findings obtained. Those before mentioned findings, highlight common difficulties regarding critical thinking issues; issues that were found as well on many other research studies and are expected to show up, such as weakly constructed and substantiated arguments, lack of a clear and sustained line of thought, less-than-careful reading of the instructions, among others.