Summary

this article talks about how higher ed is important but how the cost is outrageous and how student loans are around forever. it also includes things that are coming up in congress that will make schools fill out a form to show how much student loan applicants will be paying per month once they begin to start paying. but something like this is had when there are more than 4000 colleges and universities. the article argues that this information should be there and should have always been there because young adults should get the easiest to compare charts before they make a huge life changing decision. Gale believes that congress will take up this proposal next year after online gambling is solved because that's more important to congress.

Ethos

•    Gail Collins
•         The Times Andrew Martin
•          Pat Callan of the Higher Education Policy Institute

Pathos

• ·         Shouldn’t there be more of a match between cost of college and potential earning powerof the graduates
• ·         People don’t believe much any more about the altruistic motives of colleges and universities
• ·         The good news is that controlling college costs really does seem to be an administrative priority. The bad news is that there are more than 4000 colleges and universities

Logos

• ·         Department of Education is paying more than $1.4 Billion per annum to folks whose job is to collect on $76 billion in defaulted student loans.
•      "eight hundred dollars a month until you're 51 years old!"
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Article

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/opinion/collins-the-lows-of-higher-ed.html?_r=1&ref=columnists

Visual analysis paragraph

The first thing to grab the attention of the audience is  an empty class room with the American flag in the shot then a person walking out an empty hallway in a school with lockers, so right from the beginning you can tell what this video is all about. The sound goes along with the shots and that helps drive home the point. As far as the shots being changed and altered there is not much of it except in the hallway shot, it uses depth of field which has the close lockers in focus and the doors to the hall way out of focus along with the person walking out of it. This could symbolize people walking out on education and it doesn’t have to be a specific person so that why it is blurry and depth of field is used. No text is used in this and I don’t think that any need to be used to deliver the point. This argues that president Barack Obama has done a good job with education as the girl says and how she had to take out loans because her family could not afford to send her to college with so many brothers and sisters. This gets most college students that have or either will be taking out loans to pay for school and if there is a lower interest rate on student loans then you will be able to pay it back faster and start making more money sooner helping the economy that is pathos. I don’t know if there is much ethos or logos in the commercial as not many facts are stated.

Progress for the people: Education video

Faigley, Lester, and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons: Researching and Writing Effective Arguments, MLA

Update. Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon, 2009. 

- What visual elements grab your attention first?

The empty class room and empty halls of a school.

- What other details reinforce that impression? How?

The music goes along to it. Seems like sad and you know how its about education

- What is more important? Less important?

I think everything is important

- What about color and style? What impact do they have on your impressions?

I don’t know if color really plays a roll in this commercial

- How does the image direct the viewer’s eyes and reinforce what is important?

I’m not sure that the commercial does this.

- What text is included? How does the text relate to the image? 

There is no text

- What argument is being made? Consider: when this was made (kairos), who is the

audience, what is the purpose (exigency). 

That education is important and that president Barack Obama has helped with students taking out loans at lower rates so there is not as much to pay back and they can start making money sooner.

- List details that provide ethos, pathos, logos.

Well huge pathos is that as a college student that is soon going to have to take out loans to pay for school it will be nice to have lower interest rates

Education

Plagiarism

The author of “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age” (Aug 1, 2010) is Trip Gabriel, claims that now-a-days with the digital age that it becomes more easy to just copy and paste without even thinking that we are doing something wrong. First there was an instance where a student copy and pasted from a FAQ page and thought that he didn’t need to cite that source because it does not include the author information. There were other cases where coping and pasting off Wikipedia no citation was used because it is “common Knowledge” because it is written and edited by a collaboration of people. She had a few people saying on here that the citation rules should not be getting easier because it is destroying creativity. What I got from the article was that it really needs to be reinforced in middle and high school so that it just becomes natural to cite your source when you take it. This was helpful to look at and I bet it would be for people around this college and high school age so that they can think about it and hopefully make the change so they don’t get in trouble for not citing it properly.