Through this research, we analyzed the arguments in the Essay writing genre, from a corpus consisting of twenty essays of students crossing East program at a state school in the municipality of Igarassu, state of Pernambuco, who have not completed high school in regular period would be to eighteen years of age. Considering the above, this research is justified by the need to look increasingly critical pedagogical practice of textual production, enabling new behaviors promoting education. The overall goal of this research is to verify to what extent students Crossing East use the argument in essay writing in interaction with the society of
which they are part. Therefore, objectives are: to determine how students use Projeto Travessia Médio argumentation in writing school in interaction with the society of which they
are part. For this purpose, specific objectives are: understand the types of arguments used by most students in newsrooms essay and identify the occurrence of cohesion and consistency in the arguments of the essays essay. Through these and other issues, we believe that we can find new teaching practices ruled in sociointeractionists paradigms. Thus, interest in this topic came from discussions during lectures and textual production in times of continuing
education, in which different conceptions about teaching and learning were studied. Once, when we understand the arguments that students use to speak about a topic, we can reflect on issues of motivation for the critical position by the proposed themes and organization of the educational work of the teacher as facilitator of knowledge. Thus, we know that it is very important to reflect on activities that promote meaningful learning to construct arguments in the essay student essays.
