Habilidades de pensamiento crítico en estudiantes pre/universitarios: metodología de análisis textual

One of the basic skills of thought is the analysis. This skill requires willingness and attitude of the university students to deal with argumentative characteristics thoughts of others. This work focuses its goal to know what college as freshmen at the University of Sonora have the ability to detect in a newspaper article, propositions that support the author's argument. An important skill in the maturation process of thinking of a person who aspires to understand the world in which he lives. A world collapsed information that needs to be filtered. This research is therefore located within the line that explores thinking skills, specifically the analysis of other people's thinking. To this end it was considered based on the model of Paul and Elder (2006), who offer eight substantive to analyze own and others' thinking (essential question, purpose, information, inferences or conclusions, assumptions, implications and consequences, concepts and point elements view). We conclude that students still need new methodologies to strengthen skills that have to do with this form of critical thinkings. Which should start already treated before university period .