Should Everyone Go To College Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetoric is the ability to persuade someone through the art of speaking or writing. In their essays, “Should Everyone Go to College?” by Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill as well as “Colleges Prepare People for Life” by Freeman Hrabowski, the authors are trying to provide information about the benefits and disadvantages of attending college using rhetoric to fortify their responses. However, Hrabowski uses rhetoric more effectively than Owen and Sawhill which strengthens his arguments causing his audience to desire a college education.

Hrabowski’s choice of content appeals to his audience of families who aspire to send a child to college because his claims are effortlessly understood and difficult to dispute. While debating a claim made in

He says that the statue of Walter Sondheim “reminds him of the power of education each day” (Hrabowski 262). After graduating from college, Walter took a small job in Baltimore clueless to what would follow. However, his liberal arts education gave him the ability to think outside the box, and he became the most admired leader in Maryland (Hrabowski 262). This proves him a reliable source because he has first handedly seen the benefits and disadvantages of a college education, and still, he recommends some degree to none at all. Moreover, since he was named “chair of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans” by President Barack Obama, he establishes his credibility by including the president’s beliefs on education. He mentioned that the president “called on a higher education to standardize the information given to students and families” about finances (Hrabowski 260). This would verify all of his information about finances because his thoughts are correlated to the thoughts of the head of our