The Sexual Assault Epidemic Is Real Essay

In the persuasive article titled “The Sexual Assault Epidemic Is Real”, the author Natalie Denby, discusses about the rape culture in colleges and how the media normalizes these situations in college campuses. She states many statistics and counteracts those statistics to emphasize her thesis; to have colleges take more action and take the sexual assault cases at colleges more serious, by using a rhetorical device known as logos and counterclaims. She also uses recent events to explain why the topic is needed to be discussed. In her article she tries to explain why sexual assault in colleges needs to be taken more seriously; happen often, and for them not to just be overlooked because the statistic shown shows otherwise. In this essay I hope to explain why I feel this article was very well written. To begin with, the author used many different rhetorical devices such as, logos. For example, during the article she used many statistics such as when she stated, “Numerous studies have concluded that roughly 1 in 5 college women will be sexually assaulted. The Bureau of Justice found that the prevalence in 9 colleges was 21%. The Association of American Universities, in a separate study that surveyed 150,000 students, found that 23% of female …show more content…
One for example, that caught my attention was when the author said, “…detractors argue that it is too broad in defining sexual assault as anything from unwanted touching to rape. But that is precisely the legal definition of sexual assault: Unwanted sexual contact” (Denby). In this statement she is showing that although many may argue that it is hard to differentiate rape from sexual assault, they are both in the same category by definition and are both equally bad and should equally be taken serious no matter the range of substandard