College Education: A Conversation Analysis

For my presentation I decided to talk about college education. I decided to pick this topic because it’s something that I feel very passionate about when I talk to my fellow classmates. Many students talk on how college is expensive, but don’t realize the benefits that come with higher education. I wanted to show how free college education could effect the future and the mind of our students. The main reason that I chose this topic was to share that struggle is part of the process to success. Like some actors say in the movies “no pain no gain” I feel like my topic was an interesting topic, that’s why the audience payed attention. We all have different views about this topic and since the topic is so debatable and questionable, the students wanted to know my reasons to support my claim. It wasn’t too difficult to make my topic relatable to the audience because my topic is related with students. In order for me to make my topic

I have statistics on where Chemeketa gets their funding from. I’m used those statistics to show an example of what we already pay without free college education, but if college was to be free those numbers would increase drastically. This is how decided to use logos, to show the audience logic that college education would be free until a certain point, but the money to fund colleges has to come from somewhere. I interviewed students from Chemeketa to have more credibility. It also helped me to try to relate the audience to the interviewed students, maybe they had similar thoughts. Lastly, I was going to tell my story to the audience of how I work full time, come to school full time, low income family, is a son and a farmer all at the same time. In this situation I was trying to use pathos by showing emotion and connecting the audience to show them that if I could do it why can’t they. During my presentation I didn’t get to announce my conclusion the way I wanted to because I ran out of