CL 2/11

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  1. The shared topic of “Waking Up and Taking Charge” and “College Debt” is the issue of college student financial situations.
  2. A specific issue discussed in both essays is college student debt.
  3. I find Kamenetz a very good spokesperson for different ways to deal with college debt because first, she understands her audience. The way she formats her argument is towards a broad audience, and she uses reasoning to explain her point of view. She doesn’t insist she is right, but provides you with evidence as to why her opinions are right.
  4. I believe her proposal is very controversial. Forming a PAC will be criticized by many people, and a lot of people don’t like PACs in politics. They put money behind candidates and attempt to control elections.
  5. College students, the families of those students, and those with credit card debt would agree with her proposal.
  6. Colleges and universities would not agree with her proposal, as well as credit card companies and rich college students. The elite and those benefiting from the bottom’s financial crisis would like to keep things this way.
  7. Her claim is the elite, universities, and the government would like to keep things the way they are. Financially and how students are processed and treated. Her reason is that they make money from students having a financial crisis. Universities get a contract from students to pay tens of thousands, and whether it’s beneficial for the student, they get their money. The rich and elite who can afford to pay their child’s education have nothing to fear. One piece of evidence is only 10 percent of students came from the bottom half of the income scale at selective universities.
  8. Kamenetz uses the rhetorical appeals of reason and emotion to argue her side. Most of her argument is reason, facts and explanations as to the process that makes sense to a broad audience. She also adds a bit of emotion to her argument. She uses the emotional appeal to help these young students out of their financial problem.
  9. The aim of argument Kamenetz is using is persuading. She is trying to get more people onto her side. She doesn’t just want you to believe her, she wants you to go out and do what she wants. She wants you out there joining a PAC and getting involved.
  10. I think she meets three of the four criteria. The one that she doesn’t meet is the self-critical one. She is one-sided in her whole argument, and is not open to criticism to her argument. She does not offer another viewpoint to hers, or that there could be another way.

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