Summary Of A's Before Baes By Vivien Cheng

Vivien Cheng is a University of Western Ontario student and journalist writing for the university’s newspaper, The Western Gazette. In her article “ A’s Before Baes” Cheng discusses that in previous generations people were marrying at a younger age; however, in this generation more young people are postponing marriage until they have completed their postgraduate education. A university student herself, Cheng uses reliable statistics as well as interviews with other students and professors to bolster her credibility as an author while adopting a collegial tone to connect with her university student readers; however the image used at the beginning of her article is not persuasive to her overall argument. Cheng’s “A’s Before Baes” begins with an image of a woman’s hand holding a diploma. It is obvious that the hand displayed is female as the nails are crisply painted pink and she is wearing a woman’s watch on her wrist and a feminine ring on her finger. The background of the photograph is plainly coloured, focusing the viewer’s attention directly to the hand with the diploma. There are no words attached to …show more content…
These statistics show that the average Canadian gets married seven years later than the previous generation. Cheng (2015) believes that one factor leading to this change is that there is greater access to education, and more than half of Canadian youth are currently enrolled in university. By using these statistics from two reliable government sources, the author enhances her argument that people are now focused more on education rather than on relationships, while also increasing her credibility as an