Alan Schwarz's Attention Deficit Drugs Face New Campus Rules

In the article “Attention-Deficit Drugs Face New Campus Rules”, by Alan Schwarz, Schwarz talks about the abuse of drugs prescribed for ADHD patients in colleges. Schwarz went about this topic in a very effective way, writing the essay in a way that is easy for the audience to understand and giving the full argument the full and stating a clear position supported by solid details. Aside from this, Schwarz makes his target audience feel connected to the article by giving several scenarios that the reader may understand or relate too, even starting off the paper with an allegory that was used effectively without getting in the way of the topic. Another good thing is that Schwarz used a lot of credible sources and quoted numerous people, giving a strong ethos appeal and used a mixture of people and organizations which helped the reader to see that the problem is not only in the author’s eyes. …show more content…
The author states how colleges are tightening on the diagnosis of ADHD and prescription of drugs for it to avoid abuse of those drugs by other students, (Schwarz, n.p.) being that this is the thesis of this paper it is good that it was easy to understand and that the reader can process the information presented efficiently without any useless information getting in the way. Alan Schwarz states that, “Some schools are reconsidering how their student health offices handle A.D.H.D., and even if they should at all” (n.p.) and “Various studies have estimated that as many as 35 percent of college students illicitly take these stimulants to provide jolts of focus and drive during finals and other periods of heavy stress” (n.p.) both of which basically sum up what the paper is going to be