In everyday conversations, people communicate using rhetorical strategies without knowing it. It is a natural communication skill everyone develops throughout their lives. For example, they may successfully lie to their bosses that they’re sick or tell their parents why they came home late. Similarly, written works contain rhetorical strategies to make convincing arguments. For example, William Zinsser wants to tell parents, professors, and college administrators what they may not know about the conditions of students. In William Zinsser’s “College Pressures”, he addresses four college pressures through classifying, exemplifying, and analyzing cause and effect. Classification and division is a rhetorical strategy that breaks
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When he addresses parental pressure, he talks about students who attended medical school only because their parents pressured them to (Zinsser 439). While he could have defined the problem, he simultaneously defines parental pressure and exemplifies where the problem may occur. In this case, the apathy among medical students is just one example because law school students, for instance, may also feel apathetic. At the same time, the medical students implicitly expressed pressed under their parents. In addition, he tells a story about how a student felt when her father opposed her dream of becoming an artist (Zinsser 440). This story elaborates on a student’s feelings when her father destroyed her ambitions, and serves as a basis for every other student facing parental pressure. In other words, his example implies that students face problems similar to that of …show more content…
Classifying organizes William Zinsser’s essay into an easily digestible mind map. To further strengthen his arguments, he defines each pressure with an example, and then proves its existence by finding the cause. Furthermore, he predicts how college pressures can lead to worse problems. Whether or not the pressures exist, William Zinsser’s essay will convince more parents, professors, and college administrators to fix these problems, or at least acknowledge it. In the worse case, they will at least respect his position on student
When he addresses parental pressure, he talks about students who attended medical school only because their parents pressured them to (Zinsser 439). While he could have defined the problem, he simultaneously defines parental pressure and exemplifies where the problem may occur. In this case, the apathy among medical students is just one example because law school students, for instance, may also feel apathetic. At the same time, the medical students implicitly expressed pressed under their parents. In addition, he tells a story about how a student felt when her father opposed her dream of becoming an artist (Zinsser 440). This story elaborates on a student’s feelings when her father destroyed her ambitions, and serves as a basis for every other student facing parental pressure. In other words, his example implies that students face problems similar to that of …show more content…
Classifying organizes William Zinsser’s essay into an easily digestible mind map. To further strengthen his arguments, he defines each pressure with an example, and then proves its existence by finding the cause. Furthermore, he predicts how college pressures can lead to worse problems. Whether or not the pressures exist, William Zinsser’s essay will convince more parents, professors, and college administrators to fix these problems, or at least acknowledge it. In the worse case, they will at least respect his position on student