Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Rhetorical Analysis

This is what I have so far, I know I need more I just have to put it back into word, but I have a different version. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i22/22a03201.htm In this article, author Joseph Storch brings up a new idea of using digital “textbooks” rather than requiring students to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks that some do not even read. Throughout the article, he uses logos and gives possible scenarios for using these new textbooks. As a college student who knows the hassle buying books is, his idea seems to be a good one. Storch mentions that students find a way to get books or the materials from these books illegally. Although I have never experienced the more extreme ways of getting this material, I do know that some choose not to purchase books and will then depend on friends or other students to get by in the class. I don’t believe this is necessarily illegal, but it is a way for students to find a way around buying expensive books. This would also help the declining revenue that publishing companies depend on. Using logos, he makes logical reasons for a person to want these new textbooks. He notices that college students tend to be completely broke (something that many companies do not understand or care about) and asking us to buy six hundred plus dollars on a book we will read (maybe) for a semester at most. To have the colleges pay for unlimited access within the school year will make everything more cost efficient and may make it possible for more people to obtain a college degree.

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