2024-08-262024-08-262024-08-262022-04-11https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/633This article, through the principles of Discourse Analysis, reflects on the way students produced their essays in the 2017 Enem. It were analyzed 09 essays of 2018 edition of the Enem Participant's Booklet, and among these we found a directly and indirectly presence of a common argument, the prejudice suffered in the educational environment by the hearing impaired, starting from the broader Production Conditions and the time of writing the essays. Explaining what the National High School Exam is, it were analyzed the postulates that defends the function of Discourse Analysis is to explain the paths of meaning and the structuring mechanisms of the text, because the text produces meaning (Florêncio, 2016). Because of the reflections carried out, it was possible to perceive the presence of the historical-ideological formation for the argumentative basis of the candidates and their perspicacity to deal with a peculiar theme for Brazilian education. It was still found that the use of interdiscourse contributes to the candidate achieving a good performance, since this category enables the entire structuring of the text.Acesso AbertoEnemAnálise do discursoArgumentoDiscourse of analysisArgumentTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoLINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES