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Summary Of A College Education Is Worth The Cost By Rodney K. Smith

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In USA Today essay, Yes, “A College Education Is Worth The Costs”, writer Rodney K. Smith begins his essay by painting a very vivid picture of a student in debt, and angry about his lack of job. Coming from a family that values education, the writer stands for pursuing knowledge in order to succeed in life. With this believes, the writer’s purpose for this essay is to reassure and reinforce the necessity of education in life. Smith hopes he can help push people to go to school, and have a good career which provides for themselves or even their families. Also, he wants to give them a better understanding of the importance of an education. Smith uses both logos and pathos in his essay to help enforce his argument.
By starting his essay with a common situation college students find themselves in, Smith is able to pull his readers attention, and interest them on what he has to say. He starts his first argument by pointing out the fact that the higher the diploma or degree, the higher the income. For instance, “14.9% of those without a high school diploma” (29) will much likely earn four hundred and forty-four dollars weekly, while the “1.9% of those with a doctoral degree” (29) will earn about a thousand, five hundred and fifty dollars weekly. Smith is able to appeal to the readers’ sense of logic because they can see the statistics and change in income that appears in the essay. Although there is still the problem of how people “view an education as an investment and

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