Elaboración de una prueba diagnóstico para medir habilidades de escritura académica.

This study aimed to apply a diagnostic instrument that allowed determining the degree of academic literacy achieved by students in relation to their level of studies (undergraduate or graduate). That is, students' knowledge, abilities, skills, beliefs and / or prejudices regarding the writing process were analyzed. The methodology describes the process of elaborating a diagnostic instrument for the evaluation of students' writing skills who visit the Writing Center of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo with the purpose of getting help on their written products. The results obtained were analyzed from a qualitative perspective, with a correlation between the main characteristics that the students consider are important in the task of writing. The results found that students work (i) to develop those areas that allow a text to be coherent, (ii) to have a good command of spelling; and (iii) to learn how to start writing. The diagnostic test made it possible to establish the parameters which define the characteristics that users must meet in the writing process to consider that they develop this activity well, and that they have reached a level of sufficiency in academic literacy that allows them to get by in the university environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]