CL 2/6

1. some rhetorical ideas on pg 402-404

• reasoning
  • this was shown on pg 403 stating how the price has gone up due to the demand for education. 
  • push money aside and look at how it opens doors
• character 
  • showed where the author went to college, how much it was to go when he was at college. 
• emotion 
  • student debt has reached $1 trillion 
  • A slew of kids enter college without a clue as to what they want to do with their life.
• style 
  • The American dream promised our children that if they studied hard, made good grades and earned their degree they would be rewarded with success and opportunities that would otherwise not be available.

I think that Archer is using inquiry in his college debt essay 

• he asked a lot of questions, then answered them in the text
• he wants us to know all the information, so we know the truth

I also think that archer as persuading in his essay

• I think this because he’s trying to show that there are many options, you don’t have to go to college you can go into a trade school or straight into working.

2. I think his aim of argument was to argue that college is not as good as it seems. the price outweigh’s some of the positives of college. I think this because he states it in the college debt Essay

3. yes he meets all three out of the four criteria of responsible reasoning 

• he was well informed, he has his readers in mind, and he knows his arguments contexts. 
• he is not critical but he has all of the other criteria

4. I do trust Archer and his solution to the problem of college debt based on the essay he wrote. I think this because he has information to back up his essay. I think that his solution would be going to a trade school or going straight into working. He is basically saying that there are other ways to do good in the future, you don’t have to go into debt to have a good future.

1. What is the shared topic of “Waking Up and Taking Charge” and “College Debt”?
2. What is the specific issue discussed in each essay?
3. Based on what you’ve learned about Kamenetz by clicking the links in below her image, do you find her a good spokesperson for different ways to deal with college debt?
4. How controversial is her proposal?
5. Who would agree with her proposal? Why?
6. Who would disagree with her proposal? Why?
7. List her claim, one reason, and one piece of evidence.

1. college is not as good as everyone says. It is super expensive
2. college is really expensive. joining a pact to deal with debt
3. I do think that she is a good spokesperson, she has the educational aspect to back it up
4. I do think it is controversial because she starts talking about politics
5. people who would agree with her proposal would be teenagers, people who go to college and who want to change the tuition.
6. people who would disagree with her proposal would be college institutions and people who make money off of the tuition.
7. her claim is college is too expensive, reason is that people are going into debt, evidence – college is getting more expensive by the year.