Teenagers Have Stop Getting Summer Jobs Rhetorical Analysis

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Most people would conclude that summer jobs when they were younger were a right of passage, but today’s teens don’t seem to have the same fondness for them. Why is this a problem? While you might think that has to do with today's teens getting lazier and lazier, Derek Thompson had a different idea when he wrote the essay, “Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?”. While Thompson uses reasoning to support his claim that teens not having summer jobs is not bad, he relies heavily on evidence to convince his audience that teens are spending their free time more strategically. Thompson uses visual graphs to disprove the idea that teens are getting lazy because they don’t have summer jobs by also giving many reasons why they don’t have summer …show more content…

Thompson 22. Disproving the idea that teens are lazy while also stating his opinion when he said, “The supposed laziness of American teenagers is unchanging and, literally, average.” Thompson used evidence and data to tear down the notion that teens are lazy nowadays while comparing them to people who had teen jobs as a whole. Using a multitude of reasoning to support his chosen statistical data that showed the rise in kids staying in school longer and going to college after school, Thompson again proves that kids aren't lazy, but also opens up a door to allow room for his opinion. Thompson believes that kids staying in school isn't a problem and that it could be more beneficial than a summer job when he says, “There are several studies that show summer jobs for teens pay a long-term dividend in higher earnings.But there are even more studies hailing the benefits of high-school completion and college attendance.” He goes on to say that he agrees with kids choosing school over work now and reasons that since there are more benefits it might not just be the kids choosing this since educators and parents agree that you could get farther in life with a better

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