ETHOS: How well do you build credibility, trust, and likeability with a wide audience? I believe I built it very well and I really focused on building this properly. I included examples from sources that made my information creditable to a wide audience.

Do you cite and quote your sources appropriately? Do you introduce their credibility before citing evidence and claims from them? I did introduce my credibility before citing my evidence properly I believe.

Are all of your sources credible? I do believe all of my sources are credible and I was double checking that they credible at least to me they did.

Do you present how you are connected to the issue/any background you have in relation to it? I presented how my argument affects us in general basically it involved every one who attends college.

Have you conducted enough research that your audience feels you are knowledgeable about your subject? Yes I did conduct enough research to make my audience feel knowledgeable about my subject, I even conducted my own small field research.

Do you appeal to a wide audience? Do you address and concede to at least one opposing view or reasonable conclusion that differs from your own? I did appeal to a wide audience, I believe I at least addressed one opposing view that does differ in it’s own way against my argument.

Are you empathetic, understanding, and respectful in your language to the community that the issue most negatively effects? I was understanding and respectful to the community as I know what it feels like because it affects me personally myself as well.

Is your solution ethical? My solution is definitely ethical but I am not sure if it is fully possible since it would need many voices and opinions of many people around the country.

Is your essay appropriately written for an academic audience (MLA format, correct grammar, appropriate vocab)? Yes my essay is written properly in MLA format with I hope some good grammer as well as appropriate vocab.

Is the essay mostly your own conclusions drawn from your experience and research (vs. a summary of what you’ve read or too much quoting from other authors without providing your own informed and reasoned opinion)? My essay is a mixture of both my own conclusions as well as some good quoting from other authors.

LOGOS: How well does your message appeal to logic, reason, and (plenty of) evidence and support? My message appeals to logic, reason, and plenty of evidence to support my claims and it really helped me with background information.

Are all of your claims backed with enough evidence to persuade a critical audience? I would hope that I have enough claims that are backed up with evidence to persuade my critical audience.

Is your solution practical and specific? Do you provide evidence that your solution could work? My solution is practical and specific and I provide a good amount of evidence towards my solution.

Does the order of your paper logically (and persuasively) move from one idea to the next? Do your claims build upon each other in support of your thesis and solution(s)? My order of my paper smoothly moves from one idea to the next, my claims do build up to support my thesis and solution.

Do you avoid fallacies and contradictions? I did my best on trying to avoid fallacies and contradictions.

PATHOS: How well do you appeal to your audience’s emotions in an ethical way? How well do you inspire your audiences to take positive action for the wellbeing of the broader community? I appeal to my audience emotions ethically. I do a good job at inspiring my audience to do better as it affects all of us in one way shape or form and it could influence many people in the community to take action.

Do you appeal to shared values you have in common with your audience(s)? Which ones? Yes I definitely appeal to shared values that I have in common with my audience. For example, when I talked about how race is affected and my race in a way was affected.

Do you avoid exaggeration and vague, emotionally manipulative language? I avoid exaggeration and vague and just emotions that would manipulate my audience as I would like my audience to feel whatever they want towards my argument and solution.

Do you connect with your audience? Do you tell include personal anecdotes? I do connect with my audience. I believe I did include some personal anecdotes.

Do you show empathy and respect for your audiences? I show both empathy and respect for my audience.

Do you appeal directly to your classmates with a call to action they could participate in? I most definitely did appeal directly to my classmates with my call to action.

Do you help your audiences feel empowered (and not overly guilty or sad, for example)? I believe I did do a good job at making my audience feel empowered.

Are you caring and passionate about your issue? Have you made an effort for this to be evident in your language? I am caring and passionate about my issue. I made my effort to evident in my language but to an extent where it wasn’t too much.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g9bz-YjQD4BCbJwCpzsaIsHnfNtbOCc3oiuTYnZ2SC4/edit#slide=id.p

Hiram Ramirez

Janel Spencer

WRT101S

December 9, 2019

College Tuition Should Be Lowered

College is the pathway to success for many and not only can it open doors to success, but it can build connections. Through college, students can successfully build a life which will impact them positively, potentially leading them to the job of their dreams. These dreams can be easily crushed if one can’t afford to attend college, and reason why some can’t attend college is because of the high price of tuition. According to Kolodner, from The Hechinger Report “Up to 40% of low-income students who are accepted to college in the spring never make it to the first day of class in the fall. They’re stymied by tuition sticker shock.” The main issue here is the high and expensive tuition cost. According to Public Policy, “Graduation rate is only at 58.4% in Arizona.” Tuition for college must be lowered if universities or community colleges want to have successful graduation rates. 

In our state of Arizona, college tuition has been a big topic that involves our high and imbalanced costs of tuition. According to Azcentral, attorney general, Mark Brnovich “has for four years targeted the Arizona Board of Regents, the governing body of the Arizona public university system that sets in-state tuition rates at public universities.”  Brnovich has had an “ongoing lawsuit against the board for their tuition-setting practices.” Along with the lawsuit, he has also stated “over the last 16 years, ABOR has set in-state tuition at Arizona’s public universities without even considering the actual cost of furnishing instruction, which the Arizona Constitution requires.” Brnovich briefly touches on that as he says, “Not surprisingly, over the same period of time, Arizona’s public universities went from among the least expensive in the country to among the most expensive.” 

The Arizona Board of Regents needs to lower the cost of tuition therefore people can attend college a little more easily. Currently “tuition will increase between 2% and 3% for ASU, UA and NAU.” Tuition should not increase due to the fact that college students are already paying a high price to attend the colleges. According to ABOR they don’t understand that “since 2008, between student’s revenues and state support, the per-student revenues are down 25% at ASU, 39% at NAU and 29% at UA.” Colleges are setting such a high price standard to the point that students can’t afford to attend, which leads to colleges losing revenue per student. According to The Century Foundation, “our findings indicate that the current approach to higher education financing too often leaves low income students facing unexpected, and sometimes untenable, expenses.” On an average roughly $30,000 is spent every year per student, and that’s just for tuition. This means that every semester per student; for example, the UA as of 2018-2019 in state tuition costs $11,851. Tuition and fees will increase in 2019-2020 from $11,851 to $12,082. The increase in tuition is about $200 more than what tuition already was. Personal expenses will vary in students as well, yet overall they will still be spending more because of the increase in tuition. 

Tuition affects each family in Arizona differently as each family must pay a different price. Based off of 2018 data, “College costs a typical Arizona family 19.3% of its income, but for black families in the state it was 24.4% and 23.3% for Hispanic families. Although, according to the U.S.News, “the more money the federal government pumps into financial aid, the more money the colleges charge for tuition.” In this case, I feel as though there isn’t a good balance with the entire financial aid situation as in the end, the majority of students don’t benefit from the financial aid since the college will still charge you a high price. It seems to be that the government gives students financial aid and the colleges will use the amount of financial aid to then counter the high price of tuition. This can only be possible if the student receives enough financial aid to be able to cover the expensive tuition to the college of their choice. According to The University of Arizona, “Students take out loans that average at $7,262 a piece and if interest is included then interest would be around 4.5%.” On top of that, for those who can’t pay the loans on time “the default rate is 6.9% at the University of Arizona.” Eventually the loans will only become harder to get rid of as penalties will add up and your interest will worsen over time as well, making it impossible for students to pay back their loans completely. According to Tucson.com from the Arizona Daily Star, Arizona has a “higher rate of federal-student-loan defaults than any other state in the nation.” On top of that, “the U.S. Education Department released data that show how many borrowers defaulted within two years after their first repayments came due between Oct. 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008, the data showed a total of 24,531 borrowers defaulted.” The loan debts that students carry is one of the biggest downfalls towards their path of schooling and their career, yet loans are supposed to help us. Even to this day, most recently from 2016 “Arizona’s average total student loan debt is $23,447,” sadly over the years nothing continues to change.

While high tuition is a big matter, there’s always two sides to an argument. Financial aid is the one thing that helps students attend and pay for college, right? Well you’d actually be wrong because not everyone qualifies for financial aid in fact about “one third does not qualify for financial aid.” Financial aid is given out every year to those that can’t fully pay for college or low-income families. The financial aid isn’t the same amount for everyone, since the student’s families come into play, then from there it is decided by the government on how much aid you will receive for college. One may receive a huge amount to the point where the student has money left over, and another person might just receive either a portion of their tuition cost or just barely received enough to at least cover the cost of tuition and not any other personal expenses. In 2018-2019 in general the government gave out a total of “$27.5 billion in financial aid money, which was distributed to over 7 million students.” The way financial aid is disbursed isn’t very equal as the government disburses financial aid based on your income records and taxes. In 2015, according to Arizona’s General Revenues “Arizona received approximately $10.5 billion in federal aid, 35.5 percent of the state’s general revenues.” Arizona is also one of the most dependent states that rely on federal funding, according to Governing The States and Localities, our budget is the “most reliant on federal funding overall and states whose budgets are most dependent on the feds include Arizona (40 percent), Kentucky (40 percent), New Mexico (39 percent), Montana (39 percent) and Oregon (39 percent).”

In a little research I conducted, I went on to my personal twitter account and I created a poll. This poll that I created consisted of a question that I asked my followers to answer for me. The question was, “Should college tuition be lowered?” and this poll was set to expire in one day and 12 hours so that I was able to obtain the most votes that I could in a short amount of time. The best way I could’ve gotten the most votes is if I would’ve set the poll for a bit longer but either way, I still received votes. Keep in mind that most of my followers are my friends and the majority of the votes came from students currently in college. From my question I set two options for the people to click on to vote, the options were “Hell yeah!” that was for people saying that tuition should be lowered and the other option was, “Nah it’s fine” which was for people siding with tuition being just fine the way it is. The total votes I received within the short poll time I created was 27 votes. Out of the 27 votes, I received 26 people or 96% saying that tuition should be lowered and just 1 vote or 4% saying that tuition is fine as it is. Although my research wasn’t created with a huge audience, it still served a good purpose and I was able to obtain opinions from current college students.

My proposed solution is that I believe college tuition should be lowered to the point where it’s not ridiculously overly cheap to attend nor overly expensive to the point where students have to struggle using loans and finding ways to just barely get through tuition. Financial aid should be offered to anyone trying to attend college no matter if you are rich or poor, I believe a decent amount should be offered to each person but it should not be abused or used for anything else besides tuition, unless you just happen to have left over financial aid either because students already put some money towards tuition from their own pocket or because they just happen to have some left over, which happens often already. I also believe that every race should overall receive about the same amount in financial aid because a race shouldn’t define the amount of aid that is given which in these days for some reason, race affects financial aid. The government should provide a bit more money for financial aid if it is given to everyone who is trying to attend college not just to those who need it because there are family’s out there that should not need financial aid but just because their income shows that they don’t need it, does not mean that they don’t because in most cases they actually do need the aid because there are too many factors that show high income families in need of financial aid. The high prices for tuition are too great to ignore at this point in time. At this stage the government needs to find a way to lower tuition in general for all, not just Arizona.

Works Cited

Rubi, David C., and Phoenix. Arizona State Board of Directors for Community Colleges. The Impact of Rising Tuition on the Low Income and Minority Populations of Arizona. 16 May 1993. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED369433&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Puyear, Don, and Phoenix. Arizona State Board of Directors for Community Colleges. Tuition in Arizona Community Colleges. 1 Jan. 1999. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED431477&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Marcus, Jon, et al. “Why Are Low-Income Students Not Showing up to College, Even Though They Have Been Accepted?” The Hechinger Report, 11 Apr. 2019, https://hechingerreport.org/why-are-low-income-students-not-showing-up-to-college-even-though-they-have-been-accepted/.

Monroe, Annalee. “Fact Check: How Arizona Compares with the Rest of the Country for College Tuition Hikes.” Azcentral, Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2019, https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/fact-check/2019/04/14/how-tuition-arizona-universities-compares-other-states-fact-check/3270895002/.

Goldrick-Rab, Sara, et al. “The Real Price of College.” The Century Foundation, 3 Apr. 2017, https://tcf.org/content/report/the-real-price-of-college/.

“Why the Government Is to Blame for High College Costs.” U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report, https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/11/23/why-the-government-is-to-blame-for-high-college-costs.

“University of Arizona Loan Debt.” College Factual, 13 Sept. 2019, https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-arizona/paying-for-college/student-loan-debt/.

Star, Becky Pallack Arizona Daily. “Ariz. Is Worst for Student Loan Defaults.” Arizona Daily Star, 14 Sept. 2010, https://tucson.com/news/local/education/college/ariz-is-worst-for-student-loan-defaults/article_4e04d442-4d7c-5bf8-bc52-c4dbefe3af30.html.

“How Much Do States Rely on Federal Funding?” Governing, https://www.governing.com/topics/finance/gov-state-budgets-federal-funding-2015-2018-trump.html.

1. Fallacy of omission
2. Appear to fear
3. Hasty generalization
4. Tu quoque
5. Appeal to ignorance
6. False analogy
7. Appeal to authority
8. Red herring
9. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
10. False analogy
11. Oversimplification
12. Fallacy of division
13. Hasty generalization
14. Begging the question
15. False dichotomy

Claim:

The main issue is high tuition because if tuition is expensive then how does a college expect to acquire students if the people can’t afford it? Tuition for college must be lowered if universities or community colleges want to have a high attendance rate along with successful graduation rates.

Evidence: “Cost of attendance was cited on a survey by 18.6 percent of students who turned down their first choice.” (“Works Cited, Inside Higher Ed”)

Claim:

 “the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University – have gone from among the least expensive schools in the country to the most expensive for in-state tuition.”

Evidence:

“Arizona sat at the bottom 8% in the country for tuition costs. The figure is an average of tuition prices at ASU, UA and NAU.” (“Works Cited, AZ Central”)

• ASU: In-state tuition and general fees increased 200%. 
• NAU: In-state tuition and general fees increased 221%.
• UofA In-state tuition and general fees increased 243%.

Claims:

The high tuition costs are heavily unsupported by the public, especially by the students already attending college.

Evidence: “Every American benefits when every other American has access to as much schooling as he or she wants. When accessibility to higher education declines, we all end up paying for it.” (“Works Cited, The New York Times Magazine”)

Hiram Ramirez

Janel Spencer

WRT101S

November 20, 2019

College Tuition Should Be Lowered

            College is a pathway to success and not only does it open doors to success but builds connections to the real world. Through college, students can successfully build a life which will impact them forever and will potentially lead them to the job of their dreams. These dreams can be easily crushed if you can’t afford to attend college, reason being why people can’t attend college is because of the high tuition “just 1 in 10 people from low income families attain a college education.” The main issue is high tuition because if tuition is expensive then how does a college expect to acquire students if the people can’t afford it? Tuition for college must be lowered if universities or community colleges want to have a high attendance rate along with successful graduation rates.

            In our state of Arizona, college tuition has been a big topic that involves our high and imbalanced costs of tuition. Attorney General, Mark Brnovich “has for four years targeted the Arizona Board of Regents, the governing body of the Arizona public university system that sets in-state tuition rates at the public universities.” Brnovich has had an “ongoing lawsuit against the board for their tuition-setting practices.” Along with the lawsuit Brnovich has had ongoing towards the board, he has also stated “over the last 16 years, ABOR has set in-state tuition at Arizona’s public universities without even considering the actual cost of furnishing instruction, which the Arizona Constitution requires.” Another good point Brnovich makes is that he say’s “the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University – have gone from among the least expensive schools in the country to the most expensive for in-state tuition.” The Arizona Board of Regents can lower the cost of tuition therefore people can attend college a little more easily. Currently “additional tuition will increase between 2% and 3% for ASU, UA and NAU.” According to ABOR they don’t understand that “since 2008, between student’s revenues and state support, the per-student revenues are down 25% at ASU, 39% at NAU and 29% at U of A.” The high tuition costs are heavily unsupported by the public especially the students already attending college according to research “indicates that the current approach to higher education financing too often leaves low income students facing unexpected, and sometimes untenable, expenses.”  “According to Americans, on an average about $30,000” is spent every year per student and that’s just tuition itself. This means that about every semester per student for example the U of A, costs about $13,000 to $14,000 if not more. Arizona families have their own percentages when it comes to how much each type of family has to pay for tuition. Based off of 2018 data, “college cost a typical Arizona family 19.3% of its income, but the number was 24.4% for black families in the state and 23.3% for Hispanic families. The high prices for tuition are too great to ignore at this point in time. At this stage the government needs to find a way to lower tuition in general for all, not just Arizona. Although, according to sources, “the more money the federal government pumps into financial aid, the more money the colleges charge for tuition.” In this case there really isn’t a good balance with the whole aid situation as in the end students really don’t benefit from the aid since the college will still charge you a high price. It appears that the government will give students more aid money but that aid will just be used to counter the high tuition and that’s if students even receive enough to cover their tuition cost.

            While high tuition is a big matter, there’s always two sides of an argument. There is also good reasons as to why tuition has to be so high. “Colleges rely more and more on part-time faculty members, who often work for low pay and no benefits.” Professor assistant, Grey Gordon states “The cost is not a per student cost, it has become more costly to educate an additional student. It’s become more costly to educate all students in general.” It appears that there just isn’t sufficient funds to support additional students if the faculty isn’t getting enough money to teach. If this is one of the main problems, it just starts to sound as if teachers won’t want to be teachers anymore if it becomes more costly to educate students. It’s only right if teachers receive more income or more help with educating the students because if not then they won’t make much of a living. According to a new funding in Arizona, it’ll help the “Arizona Teachers Academy support 3,000 prospective teachers this year-about six and a half times the 450 students the state universities-developed program served with just their own internal resources in previous years, said John Arnold, executive director of the Arizona Board of Regents.” In this situation it’s a good thing because it’ll mean that there will be a good amount of teachers in the future if this funding keeps going but the downside will still be if the funding will even continue for that long or will it even be applied to any of the 3,000 prospective and it could also shut down if worse comes to worst. According to director John Arnold, “it’s a huge jump in the number of participants in the program, it allows us to expand this program past the universities to the community colleges where they do post-baccalaureate teaching programs, which allows people to come back, get certified and into the teaching profession.”

            Another opposing argument that might have a say in this, is the fact of the government running out of financial money. Financial aid is given out every year to those can’t fully pay for college or families that receive low income. The aid isn’t the same amount for everyone, since the student’s families come into play then from there it is decided by the government on how much aid you will receive. One may receive a huge amount to the point where you have money left over and another person might just receive either a portion of their tuition cost or just barely receive enough to at least cover the cost of tuition. The way financial aid is disbursed isn’t very reliable as the government (feds) disburse financial aid based on your income records and taxes.

In 2015, according to Arizona’s general revenues “Arizona received approximately $10.5 billion in federal aid, 35.5 percent of the state’s general revenues.” Arizona is also one of the most dependent states that rely on federal funding, according to the “state budget most reliant on federal funding overall, states whose budgets are most dependent on the feds include Arizona (40 percent), Kentucky (40 percent), New Mexico (39 percent), Montana (39 percent) and Oregon (39 percent).” One could argue that since Arizona is one of the most dependent states that means that the federal government provides a large amount of money towards us, that isn’t the case as it is shown that other states also use a chunk of percentage that shows that those states also depend on federal funding just like us in Arizona making it hard to receive a good portion of money for tuition. There was also an important scandal that occurred earlier this year that involved college student’s parents and this had to do with the parents “transferring legal guardianship of their high school-aged children to someone else, often a friend or relative so that their children can declare themselves financially independent from them, likely enhancing their eligibility for federal, state and university aid.” Scamming the government like this just makes things worse for those students and families in need for financial aid, as this could cause an even bigger hate towards the government for not being more secure with such an important source of money. Not only does this “take away money from families in need’ but also takes away grants from students such as the one’s in “Illinois in 2018, about 82,000 students who were eligible for a grant of up to about $5,000 were denied it because there wasn’t enough money.” The government doesn’t see issues like this as a big deal since they have the power and say in this. The government will continue to give us the minimum for federal aid and not a penny more even if a fraud like this scandal occurs since it will not affect them in anyway but only make them look bad. The government won’t compensate for the money that was illegally taken even though it was their fault that the government itself got scammed.

Sentences/ Complete sentence /Independent Clauses: a complete sentence subject, verb, and complete thought

Subordinate Conjunctions: after, although, as, as if, as though, because, before, except, if, since, though, unless, when, whereas

Commas to separate time words

Quotation marks

Coma splice

Essay 1

“award” “Presidential medal of freedom Award”

“Apellas” “Jabbar appeals to logos and pathos”

“nothing” “Nothing.”

“Jabbar stated” “Jabbar states”,

“wrongs” “Wrongs don’t get righted unless we keep raising our voices…”

“So, once more unto the breach” “So, once more, unto the breach,…”

“a” “an”

“The” that “the”

“is when Jabbar stated” “is when Jabbar states,”

“is heartbreaking” “heartbreaking, and further”

say,”here” Added the word

” Jabbar stated” money,” Jabbar states, explain that money”

“says the” says, “The”

” There isn’t much of a chance” “pro, which unfortunately isn’t very likely.”

“Jabbar race” Jabbar, “Race”

” Needs to earn” “need to earn”

Works cited “Center text”

“insert hanging indent and double space on the works cited page”

Essay 2

“A Life Shattering Event” “A Life-Shattering Event”

“breathe” “breath,”

“friends and” “friends,” and

“Structure” “Structure-“

“how” “How”

“Was” “was”

“Since” “since”

“wife” “wife,”

“Was” “was”

“What” “what”

“Something” “something,”

“why” “Why”

“last” “last,”

“wow” “Wow”

“separate” “separate,”

College Tuition Should Be Lowered

            College is a pathway to success and not only does it open doors to success but builds connections to the real world. Through college, students can successfully build a life which will impact them forever and will potentially lead them to the job of their dreams. These dreams can be easily crushed if you can’t afford to attend college, reason being why people can’t attend college is because of the high tuition. The main issue is high tuition because if tuition is expensive then how does a college expect to obtain students if the people can’t afford it? Tuition for college must be lowered if universities or community colleges want to have a high attendance rate along with successful graduation rates.

            In our state of Arizona, college tuition has been a big topic that involves our high and imbalanced costs of tuition. Attorney General, Mark Brnovich “has for four years targeted the Arizona Board of Regents, the governing body of the Arizona public university system that sets in-state tuition rates at the public universities.” Brnovich has had an “ongoing lawsuit against the board for their tuition-setting practices.” Along with the lawsuit Brnovich has had ongoing towards the board, he has also stated “over the last 16 years, ABOR has set in-state tuition at Arizona’s public universities without even considering the actual cost of furnishing instruction, which the Arizona Constitution requires.” Another good point Brnovich makes is that he say’s “the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University – have gone from among the least expensive schools in the country to the most expensive for in-state tuition.” The Arizona Board of Regents can lower the cost of tuition therefore people can attend college a little more easily. Currently “additional tuition will increase between 2% and 3% for ASU, UA and NAU.” According to ABOR they don’t understand that “since 2008, between student’s revenues and state support, the per-student revenues are down 25% at ASU, 39% at NAU and 29% at U of A.” The high tuition costs are heavily unsupported by the public especially the students already attending college. “According to Americans, on an average about $30,000” is spent every year per student and that’s just tuition itself. This means that about every semester per student for example the U of A, costs about $13,000 maybe $14,000. Arizona families have their own percentages when it comes to how much each type of family has to pay for tuition. Based off of 2018 data, “college cost a typical Arizona family 19.3% of its income, but the number was 24.4% for black families in the state and 23.3% for Hispanic families. The high prices for tuition are too great to ignore at this point in time. At this stage the government needs to find a way to lower tuition in general for all, not just Arizona. Although, according to sources, “the more money the federal government pumps into financial aid, the more money the colleges charge for tuition.” In this case there really isn’t a good balance with the whole aid situation as in the end students really don’t benefit from the aid since the college will still charge you a high price. Basically the government will give students more aid money but that aid is just used to counter the high tuition and that’s if students even receive enough to cover their tuition cost.

            While high tuition is a big matter, there’s always two sides of an argument. There’s also good reasons as to why tuition has to be so high. “Colleges rely more and more on part-time faculty members, who often work for low pay and no benefits.” Professor assistant, Grey Gordon states “The cost is not a per student cost, It has become more costly to educate an additional student. It’s become more costly to educate all students in general.”

Controversial subjects against my argument is that according to an article “college tuition is not much more than it was a decade ago.” A such thing called “college discounting” is where colleges will charge you more but will give you more aid. An article stated “economist and college consultant Lucie Lapovsky had created and released a paper about tuition discounting”. Here we find data that was provided about college discounting and it shows, “between 2006 and 2017 dollars, while their average net price increased only 6% in 2017 dollars over this period”. Another opposing argument is when lowering prices would be a competitive advantage for schools, increasing their market appeal and therefore enrollment and therefore revenue.

Peers for my topic summary

What I learned from conversations with my peers is that, not everyone agrees with college tuition being so high. A neutral viewpoint was discussed by Max as that my topic issue has a good point and that my reason makes sense but is also questioning as to how the government providing more money could possibly lead the solution into a direction where, college tuition lowers but how will the teachers be affected. Fransisco was the sympathetic peer as he agreed that college tuition is high and that we all had to pay to get into college and it was not cheap. Max was not only my neutral peer but my hostile as well, as he explained why he was neutral he also made his viewpoint hostile as he explained how lowering tuition could affect the service in colleges as well as affecting faculty. Overall I received good feedback and it was useful and it made me think of points that I didn’t think of before.