Rhetorical Analysis
Many people have this old fashioned view that college is just a part of your life where you go to parties, class, and have nothing to worry about. But the reality of this is that this is not true as explained by Gail O. Mellow in her op-ed piece in the New York Times called The Biggest Misconceptions About Today's College Students. Mellow argues that the reality of college is that while you're in college you're going to be stressed out and in debt. Mellow uses logical and ethical appeal in his op-ed. But even though she uses these appeals they are very weak in her argumentative op-ed.
In her op-ed Mellow talks about the reality of how college life is and that many of the student who attend college struggle to meet their …show more content…
One of these is logical appeal. Even though she uses logical appeal correct and precisely she doesn't state where she gets her information from, but since she is writing for the New York Times she could get away with it. Using a logical appeal would be more effective if she would to state where she got her facts and statistics. A great example of this is would be in the third paragraph of her op-ed where she gives the reader some statistics about how many students are working full time and and attending college but she does not state where she go her information from making it weak. Another example where Mellow uses good logos is where she says, “ last year, more than 41 billion was given in charity to higher education, but about a quarter of that went to just twenty institutions.” She goes on to say that the community colleges received little to none of this money. Making her audience question why aren't community colleges getting more money and what can be done so that they have a substantial amount to meet their …show more content…
Mellow establishes that she has a good ethical appeal because she is writing for the New York Times this makes her seem trustworthy but that's about all that she has. Her weakest argumentative appeal would be emotional appeal because she does not really include emotions in her op-ed. One was she can add an emotional appeal to her argument would be to ask high school junior and senior about how they fell the college lifestyle is like. Most of them would prove her point by saying what she what she already stated making her argument even stronger. If she would include more emotional appeal about how many college students are struggling to get through college it would be easier to persuade her audience about the struggles that many students are
Many people have this old fashioned view that college is just a part of your life where you go to parties, class, and have nothing to worry about. But the reality of this is that this is not true as explained by Gail O. Mellow in her op-ed piece in the New York Times called The Biggest Misconceptions About Today's College Students. Mellow argues that the reality of college is that while you're in college you're going to be stressed out and in debt. Mellow uses logical and ethical appeal in his op-ed. But even though she uses these appeals they are very weak in her argumentative op-ed.
In her op-ed Mellow talks about the reality of how college life is and that many of the student who attend college struggle to meet their …show more content…
One of these is logical appeal. Even though she uses logical appeal correct and precisely she doesn't state where she gets her information from, but since she is writing for the New York Times she could get away with it. Using a logical appeal would be more effective if she would to state where she got her facts and statistics. A great example of this is would be in the third paragraph of her op-ed where she gives the reader some statistics about how many students are working full time and and attending college but she does not state where she go her information from making it weak. Another example where Mellow uses good logos is where she says, “ last year, more than 41 billion was given in charity to higher education, but about a quarter of that went to just twenty institutions.” She goes on to say that the community colleges received little to none of this money. Making her audience question why aren't community colleges getting more money and what can be done so that they have a substantial amount to meet their …show more content…
Mellow establishes that she has a good ethical appeal because she is writing for the New York Times this makes her seem trustworthy but that's about all that she has. Her weakest argumentative appeal would be emotional appeal because she does not really include emotions in her op-ed. One was she can add an emotional appeal to her argument would be to ask high school junior and senior about how they fell the college lifestyle is like. Most of them would prove her point by saying what she what she already stated making her argument even stronger. If she would include more emotional appeal about how many college students are struggling to get through college it would be easier to persuade her audience about the struggles that many students are