Rhetorical Analysis Of Robert Farrington's Article In The Forbes Magazine '

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Introduction
We spend years of our high school career imagining the college life, the dorms, and the college university experience. We spend months of our senior year deciding where it is exactly that we want to spend the next 4 years furthering our education. It is finally time to apply for financial assistance, only to find out that you do not qualify for financial aid. How will your family afford $8,000-$15,000 dollars a semester of college? How will you get the college experience and the hands on training that you have always dreamt of? Being a part of the U.S middle class, as are many other students, we unfortunately fall into the category of being “Too poor for college, and too rich for financial aid”.
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One way he does so is by using emotional appeal to connect the audience to the issue. Farrington begins by giving the reader’s a visualization of what it might be like to go through the experience yourself or even experiencing your own child being accepted into a university of their dreams, but not having the money to afford it. Ultimately, diminishing their long term goals.
In addition, Farrington gives us factual evidence to give the reader a better understanding of why it is that families are “too poor for college, too rich for financial aid”. He includes in his article that $48,000 is the median household income in the United States. Farrington tells his readers roughly how much the cost of attendance is for a year at a college university, and also explains how even after being granted the highest form of financial aid the tuition left for the families to pay is just as much as the median household income in the U.S. He also informs the readers that most financial aid is calculated on expected family contribution. This is how much the government thinks the family can afford to pay. This gives the readers the necessary knowledge to have a better understanding for the standing issue

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