Rhetorical analysis
Is unpaid internship worth it for students? The author Anya Kamenetz, wrote “Take This Internship and Shove It”, published in 2006 in the New York times. In this article, Kamenetz claims that unpaid internship is not beneficial for college students. This essay will show how well Kamenetz wrote her article by using rhetorical strategies which are the ethos that builds on credibility, logos that can convince readers with the fact and statistics and pathos that draw the attention of readers with emotional appeal.
In her article, Kamenetz started her article by describing there are alternative ways that students can do in summer instead of the unpaid internship, such as volunteering and work part time like her young sister …show more content…
For example, she started her article by describing an anecdote of her young sister who was a freshman at Yale which chooses to be a volunteering and doing the part-time job during summer while other students earned experience of the unpaid internship. This can support her credible because Yale university is the top best university in the world which can make readers feel that even if the student from the best university, they are no need to do the unpaid internship. Moreover, she goes on by using many strong sources to boost her credibility, such as “a national survey by Vault”, “a sociologist at the University of Washington, Gina Neff” and “a 1998 survey of nearly 700 employers by the Institute on Education and the Economy at Columbia University's Teachers College”. These citing sources make Kamenetz’s credible because those sources are from the company or university that well known in the world. She also uses her own experience when she was a college student to support the issue, which can make her article more credible because she has the first-hand experience with this issue. In addition, she did the good job in her argument by using the ethos appeal because she uses many effective sources to strength her credible. These can make readers believe in her argument because she uses a lot of sources that from the company or university that are trustable in the world. She could make her …show more content…
She makes a point by using fact that unpaid internship can cause students have more debt because they are loose wages but they have to pay their living expenses during their intern. To explain more, some students have to loan money for study in the college, so if they took the unpaid internship, they will not have money to pay back those loans which means that they will have more debt before they graduated. She also points out that unpaid internships are not the best way for getting ready for the real work because when students work as an unpaid internship, they did not take it seriously like people who are working in the real work. It can tell that if they are work in the real work, they will getting confuse because the progress of real work did not same as the unpaid internship that they took. Kamenetz continues with many statistics, such as “84 percent of college students in April planned to complete at least one internship before graduating”, “about half of all internships are unpaid” and “the percentage of young workers who hold an actual union card is less than 5 percent, compared with an overall national private-sector union rate of 12.5 percent”. All of these statistics that fulfill in her article are logically which boosts her claim that unpaid internships are damaging to students and economy. In the part of logos appeal, she also did a good job on it because those
Is unpaid internship worth it for students? The author Anya Kamenetz, wrote “Take This Internship and Shove It”, published in 2006 in the New York times. In this article, Kamenetz claims that unpaid internship is not beneficial for college students. This essay will show how well Kamenetz wrote her article by using rhetorical strategies which are the ethos that builds on credibility, logos that can convince readers with the fact and statistics and pathos that draw the attention of readers with emotional appeal.
In her article, Kamenetz started her article by describing there are alternative ways that students can do in summer instead of the unpaid internship, such as volunteering and work part time like her young sister …show more content…
For example, she started her article by describing an anecdote of her young sister who was a freshman at Yale which chooses to be a volunteering and doing the part-time job during summer while other students earned experience of the unpaid internship. This can support her credible because Yale university is the top best university in the world which can make readers feel that even if the student from the best university, they are no need to do the unpaid internship. Moreover, she goes on by using many strong sources to boost her credibility, such as “a national survey by Vault”, “a sociologist at the University of Washington, Gina Neff” and “a 1998 survey of nearly 700 employers by the Institute on Education and the Economy at Columbia University's Teachers College”. These citing sources make Kamenetz’s credible because those sources are from the company or university that well known in the world. She also uses her own experience when she was a college student to support the issue, which can make her article more credible because she has the first-hand experience with this issue. In addition, she did the good job in her argument by using the ethos appeal because she uses many effective sources to strength her credible. These can make readers believe in her argument because she uses a lot of sources that from the company or university that are trustable in the world. She could make her …show more content…
She makes a point by using fact that unpaid internship can cause students have more debt because they are loose wages but they have to pay their living expenses during their intern. To explain more, some students have to loan money for study in the college, so if they took the unpaid internship, they will not have money to pay back those loans which means that they will have more debt before they graduated. She also points out that unpaid internships are not the best way for getting ready for the real work because when students work as an unpaid internship, they did not take it seriously like people who are working in the real work. It can tell that if they are work in the real work, they will getting confuse because the progress of real work did not same as the unpaid internship that they took. Kamenetz continues with many statistics, such as “84 percent of college students in April planned to complete at least one internship before graduating”, “about half of all internships are unpaid” and “the percentage of young workers who hold an actual union card is less than 5 percent, compared with an overall national private-sector union rate of 12.5 percent”. All of these statistics that fulfill in her article are logically which boosts her claim that unpaid internships are damaging to students and economy. In the part of logos appeal, she also did a good job on it because those