In a world where college is seemingly becoming a necessary prerequisite for every job, tuition fees continue to skyrocket. Within the article, “Higher Education went from being a Public Good to a Private Good” published in The Washington Post in 2014, Catherine Rampell reveals the true culprit behind the increasing costs to attend college. Throughout her article, Rampell claims that attending and graduating college is becoming a greater feat for the students who need college the most. Multiple times in her article, Rampell describes how the state legislators are behind making college go further out of reach for those the countries future depends on. To support her argument, Rampell uses a combination of logical appeal, credible sources for
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To support her facts, she proved their credibility to list her sources throughout the article. For example, she used research by Enrico Moretti, Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, and State Higher Education Executive Officers. “’If you’re a state legislator, you look at all your state’s programs and you say, ‘Well, we can’t make prisoners pay, but we can make college students pay,’’ Ronald Ehrenberg, the director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and a trustee of the State University of New York System, once told me in an interview” (42). This is another form of ethos used in Catherine Rampell’s essay. First, she uses the quote as another source for her information and to further back up her claims. Then, she uses the quote to also give herself credibility. It shows that she also did research to find information about the subject. The final form of ethos that she used in her essay was located at the end of her essay. “Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post” (43). This short excerpt at the end of her article gives one final thing to show that the author is a credible source. Ethos strengthens her argument because it proves that there are facts that back up her point of view. Without evidence, any argument is questionable and vulnerable to be proven
To support her facts, she proved their credibility to list her sources throughout the article. For example, she used research by Enrico Moretti, Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, and State Higher Education Executive Officers. “’If you’re a state legislator, you look at all your state’s programs and you say, ‘Well, we can’t make prisoners pay, but we can make college students pay,’’ Ronald Ehrenberg, the director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and a trustee of the State University of New York System, once told me in an interview” (42). This is another form of ethos used in Catherine Rampell’s essay. First, she uses the quote as another source for her information and to further back up her claims. Then, she uses the quote to also give herself credibility. It shows that she also did research to find information about the subject. The final form of ethos that she used in her essay was located at the end of her essay. “Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post” (43). This short excerpt at the end of her article gives one final thing to show that the author is a credible source. Ethos strengthens her argument because it proves that there are facts that back up her point of view. Without evidence, any argument is questionable and vulnerable to be proven