Allie Wendell’s Rhetoric Blog

Title: Colleges should lower tuition costs Purpose: Persuade the audience to to see that tuition prices are too high for students and want to help change them lo a lower cost Thesis: Tuition costs are way too expensive for students to afford and taking out many loans hurts students in the future when trying to pay them off and living a comfortable life. Hook: Do you hate paying so much money just to go to school to be able to pursue your dream job? Introduction: Many students are in debt or paying off many loans after college when they are still looking for a real job and trying to put food on the table. The average price of tuition in the United States for out of state residents is $25,620 per year. That goes over $100,000 for four years and many students don't have that to pay for college. Transition: We will now look at some negative side effects of high tuition prices Body Main point 1 Debt A us news article states that is takes are 20 years to pay off c...

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College tuition should be lowered.  Many students are in debt before they even start a real job or make money for themselves.  Students who go to college have to take out loans and borrow money just to get an education. Tuition should be lowered so that college is affordable and students will not be drowning in debt after they complete college. Many students pay for their own college. When students start college they are around the age 18 so they would only have 2 years prior to college to work.  Working 2 years at minimum wage is not enough to even pay for a year of school at most colleges.  Students in college would never be able to get the funds for four years of college in that short amount of time. Why should students have to pay $100,000+ just for an education? This is important because 70% of students are in debt with many loans after college.  On average it takes people 21 years to pay off their student loans.  This means that you will still be ...

This assignment asks us to come up with a problem to solve, and use rhetorical devices to create an argument to persuade the class to want to solve the problem.  This speech has to be around 5-8 minutes.  We also need to come up with a solution, the proposal needs to be fair and precise.  To help your presentation we need to make sure to use a power point or prezi for visual aid. The speech should make students want to help solve this problem. Question - can we use any topic - what images should our power point include

After giving feedback to my peers I realized that I could use some of the feedback myself.  For example, for both of my peers papers I told the to check the in-text citations.  After talking to Mr. Paudel I realized my in-text citations were also wrong.  The correct way for an in-text citation is (last name, year, p.) after realizing this I fixed my own paper.