We have been doing quite a bit of reading about education. Now it is time to look at some current events on the topic.
Do a search for "Op-ed + education" and choose an op-ed (opinion piece) about education that interest you. 1. Copy and Paste the URL of your article. 2. summarize the piece 3. complete a rhetorical analysis that follows the author's line of reasoning used to convey their message or purpose. What rhetorical choices did they make? I am looking for the WHAT (what are they saying), HOW (rhetorical strategy), and WHY (affect on audience--what does the author want them to think, feel, or act upon AND connection to purpose or message). 4. write a reflection paragraph on whether or not the line of reasoning and rhetorical stratgies used were effective. 5. Once you have posted, you are not done. Come back to this blog and comment on someone else's posting, expressing your own interpretation, questioning his or her analyses, or suggesting changes to improve his or her writing. Suggestions: - Schools banning SEL - Student Loan Debt Relief - Virginia is moving to restrict the rights of trans students - Sex Ed in schools - LGBTQ history month banned in Miami
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Vanetta July
10/24/2022 06:10:39 am
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-banning-sel-puts-students-at-risk/2022/05
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Samuel Koul Biar
10/26/2022 04:24:04 pm
I definitely agree with you that SEL is important and needs to be tuaght in schools but I think that schools need to incorporate a different approach to SEL instead just presenting a bunch of slidehows. The schools choose important topics that need to be adressed in SEL but in a way that is boring and non-effective, and ultimately ends up with students being on their phone and not paying attention. If schools could create a more engaging approach towards SEL, education systems would definitely start to see the changes that they are looking for with the SEL programs. Moving on to the topic of your essay, I think it was really well written and your explanation effectively provides the reader with what the author was trying to accomplish, I also don't really think you could've of done anything wrong since your kinda the ela teacher so uh good job.
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Taylor Martin
10/27/2022 05:23:09 am
https://collegian.com/articles/opinion/2022/04/category-opinion-henry-abstinence-only-sex-education-is-damaging-and-excludes-lgbtq-people/
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Corrie
10/28/2022 05:36:19 am
I Like the way that you supported your claims and and the rhetorical anyalisis i though it was very accurate
Vanetta July
10/28/2022 02:26:45 pm
Your opening paragraph is right on...but do not forget to mention towards what purpose or message.
ziry
10/27/2022 07:28:13 pm
I like the way you brought up a lot of rhetorical strategies and explained them thoroughly without just using them and explaining at all. I do think you could have explained a bit more when you talked about the writer establishing their credibility. I do like how you kept showing how the writer emphasized their stance. Overall, it was great and the fact you didn’t just drop quotes.
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Eva Qasim
10/28/2022 05:21:31 am
https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-our-education-system-is-not-setting-up-students-for-success/
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Vanetta July
10/28/2022 02:34:15 pm
Given that he is talking to Americans as a whole, this is important because it allows Ramos to be credible and have evidence to support his opinion.---Explain why?
Rithik Ramkumar
10/31/2022 03:47:36 am
I like your argument because you explain really well why SEL is important to students' health. I think that for some people, I really can be more important than academics like you said because mental health is just as important as physical health. However, while the idea of SEL itself sounds fantastic, the way it is currently implemented now I feel is simply wrong. Students in our age group need real interactions and someone that will listen to them to talk to. Instead, all we get are slideshows, and silly little online seminars telling us how to respond to situations having to do with our mental health. Students SEL to connect with others, being free to do what they want. So like I said, I really love your advocation of SEL, but from a personal standpoint, I believe that the block is being underutilized and misused at Butler, and probably in other schools in CMS.
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Silas Leonard
10/26/2022 05:16:25 am
1. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1129786060/student-school-mural-angers-parents-hidden-messages-michigan-lgbtq-satan
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10/26/2022 07:06:47 am
I found this article to be pretty interesting. It's ridiculous how these people are treating the artwork like it's satanic when I can look at it and see iconic characters in pop culture like Sprig from Amphibia or Technoblade.
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Jackson Konzelmann
10/28/2022 04:28:31 am
I like your article and i thought it was intersting. I really like the way that you structed well. I like the part with the comparison between commets.
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10/28/2022 04:47:41 am
Hey Silas, i found the article to be pretty funny to be honest. The fact that parents are getting so enraged over a mural of children in bright colors and claiming there is "witchcraft" and that the mural itself is "satanic", is beyond me. I really liked your analysis though, I think it was very consistent and clear. Just out of curiosity though, do you agree or disagree that the parents were right to make such a fuss over an innocent mural?
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Silas Leonard
10/28/2022 05:46:58 am
It definitely is ridiculous, but it's also scary that there are people who genuinely believe the things the parents said in the article, it sounds like satire but it isn't
Vanetta July
10/29/2022 05:14:41 am
Your topic sentences do not create the line of reasoning which is WHAT is the author doing and WHY.
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10/26/2022 06:43:52 am
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-cellphones-and-halloween-candy-how-to-help-students-resist-temptations/2022/10
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Jackson Konzelmann
10/26/2022 11:21:27 am
David Banks, CEO of Eagle Academy Foundation for Young men, writes an op-ed about the damage that middle school causes and his stance on middle school. His belief is that it will be more beneficial to remove middle school and just have elementary and high school.
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Nivedha Prathap Chandran
10/26/2022 07:37:38 pm
Hi Jackson! Banks' message is really interesting... I totally agree with you in how you said his argument is wrong. Although his line of reasoning is there, he does make it seem that middle school is the core reason teens make the decisions they do. I feel like his argument is kind of ignorant because he is not looking at the broader picture. He believes middle school is the only reason why teens act the way they do. He is not looking around and seeing all the positives middle school does for students, such as preparing us for high school and teaching us the difference from rights and wrongs. Great analysis!
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Kennedy Draper
10/27/2022 04:20:41 am
Jackson! Banks' message is really eye-catching. I agree with you on how his argument is wrong, but his reasoning is arguable. I personally think his argument is kind of ignorant as he is not looking at the overall cause and/or effects. He believes middle school is the only reason why teens act the way they do. He is not looking around and seeing all the positives middle school does for students, such as preparing them for high school, etc.
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Eva Qasim
10/28/2022 05:25:29 am
Hi Jackson! I found your article relatively interested and like how you worded your analysis. I agree with the fact that he is being a bit too extreme, and that he isn't looking at the big picture. Great job this is excellent :)
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10/26/2022 03:38:35 pm
1. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-why-i-tell-students-to-imitate-other-people/2022/10
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Arnav Srivastava
10/26/2022 03:39:07 pm
onvincing the students that imitation isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Utilizing multiple sources, including herself, of good examples where imitation was used professionally successfully provided the students of applicable instances where the art of imitation was used for inspiration. She hammered this idea home with a clear and direct contrasting description of what and what not to do, leaving the students with the main knowledge she wished to get across.
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Dhruv Dudhat
10/26/2022 10:01:24 pm
Great analysis! Angela definitely tries to bolster her crediblity by citing situations where she has mimicked others. Moving onto the line of reasoning, good job on looking at if the argument was effective, not right or wrong. I definitely agree that her usage of credibility and examples work together to form a sound argument for teaching students a new outlook on imitation. The question that I had was, where is the contrast you stated in the strategies used for #4?
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Arnav Srivastava
10/27/2022 04:31:45 am
I am referring to the do's and don't's, which are opposites so therefore contrast one another.
Samuel Koul Biar
10/27/2022 05:21:57 am
I agree with your comment on that I should use more exmaples which I ended up including more of but I disagree with your statement of my elementary vocablury. I prefer to not bite off more than I can chew and confuse the audience with what I'm trying to say.
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Jeremy Liu
10/27/2022 05:22:36 am
This was a really good analysis. I couldn't agree more about cheating being an important part of life. I liked how you included her experience and other experts usage of imitation, as well as your choice of using contrasting with the do's and don'ts in the last paragraph. One question I do have is paragraph two and three of question 3 supposed to be together? and would her use of credibility be lessened or stayed the same if she only included an experts POV on the topic?
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 05:23:57 am
One crucial thing you missed was the fact that "cheating" is in quotation marks. I don't think she is saying "cheating" the way we see cheating. I think she is advocating for imitating and that should not be called cheating.
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Jack Vuong
10/26/2022 06:38:04 pm
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/15/opinion/hispanic-heritage-latinx-studies.html
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Jack Vuong
10/26/2022 06:45:48 pm
ressing the proper representation of Latin-American history in America.
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Taylor Martin
10/27/2022 05:30:55 am
Your analysis is very in-depth and easy to understand. You did a good job of not being vague and I like how at the end you point out that an opposing story would also be valid, as Dávila's argument is based on personal experiences.
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Dhruv Dudhat
10/26/2022 09:48:47 pm
1. https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-our-education-system-is-not-setting-up-students-for-success/
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Dhruv Dudhat
10/26/2022 09:49:31 pm
e heavy emphasis on logical reasoning with the inclusion of statistics and examples help create a large appeal to logic which is very effective. Ramos and Abrams compare the implications of a poor civics education and the positive impacts of a good civics education to illustrate the importance of improving civics education for young US citizens.
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Dhruv Dudhat
10/26/2022 09:51:50 pm
(this is the continuation for #4, not the previous response)
Dhruv Dudhat
10/27/2022 04:51:35 am
In the last sentence of the first paragraph for #3, there was a typo, here is the actual sentence:
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Jack Vuong
10/28/2022 04:42:25 am
In your last paragraph, you said that the consequences mentioned by Ramos and Abrams makes educators and school systems rethink their stances on the importance of civic education. I agree with this, but I also think that the presentation of these consequences such as the "degredation of our civic culture and global standing" and to "remain a world leader" also create urgency in the audience by striking the the educators' feelings of patriotism. Ramos and Abrams illustrate how the United States lack maintenance of their high standing as a world leader is dangerous. As Ramos and Abrams are adressing an American audience, in which American exceptionalism is spread throughout, educators are struck by patriotic feelings to "make America the best." These feelings of patriotism create urgency to adress Ramos and Abrams; desire to increase integration of civic education.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 05:39:48 am
it is detrimental to the country as the younger generations are subject to a lack of civics knowledge. ----Why is this a problem? Why should students have civics knowledge?
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Emma Collard
10/27/2022 04:47:59 am
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/opinion/school-book-bans-students.html
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Emma Collard
10/27/2022 04:50:28 am
It didn't post everything, here's the rest:
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Elshaday Ftsum Tekeste
10/27/2022 05:04:50 pm
Hi Emma,
Jackson Konzelmann
10/28/2022 04:35:24 am
You really looked at very differnt type of analysis and choices, some ireally didnt notice until you said them. I also really like how you talked about both the negitave and the postive.
Lilah Childers
10/28/2022 01:02:47 pm
Hi Emma! I just realized we did the same article, and I really like your analysis! we picked almost completely different things to write about so it was really interesting to see someone else's point of view. I really like how you explained the effect of the anecdotes, i wasn't super sure how to do that. We also got similar things out of the facts and statistics bit of the article, so that was good to see!
Ethan Noel
10/27/2022 05:00:12 am
https://nul.org/news/op-ed-whos-pay-detrimental-cost-higher-education
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Emma Collard
10/27/2022 05:19:57 am
Hi Ethan,
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Emerson Humphrey
10/27/2022 06:16:03 pm
Hey Ethan! We actually picked the same article so I was interested to see if we had some of the same thoughts. I liked how you picked out the government officials as the audience. I didn't really get that when I read the article but after reading your response I have a little bit of a new perspective. We used a lot of the same quotes and strategies and I think you did a really nice job!
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 05:56:50 am
You needed to explain the so what? What is the big deal if higher education is not available to lower income students. That is part of the purpose of why the article is written. I read the article and it does state this.
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Jeremy Liu
10/27/2022 05:05:46 am
https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-floridas-don-t-say-gay-bill-banning-school-discussion-of-sexual-identity-is-pure/article_23755439-63ff-5126-8af3-38380904f048.html
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Addison Carnow
10/27/2022 05:17:48 am
hey jeremy, I love the strategies you used! Oxymoron is a great example to include and the evidence you use with it is perfect. Only thing I would work on is being more detailed in your response, like when you said "Santiago wants parents to know that strpping away someones freedom...", you could explain why to fully inform the reader why the author is trying to acheive this purpose.
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Bella Norton
10/27/2022 08:23:41 pm
I like how you focused your blog on the emotion her article gives off. I agree with how you said when she highlights the words like suicide and suffer it appeals to the audiences sympathy because when using such negative words like those it does something to the reader.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 07:02:08 am
Your line of reasoning is faulty. You never present the What? What are they doing? You only do this in your second paragrah.
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Nivedha Prathap Chandran
10/27/2022 05:06:21 am
https://huntnewsnu.com/64775/editorial/op-ed-why-the-american-education-system-is-failing-us/
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Ethan Noel
10/27/2022 05:29:12 am
I really like the way you are making sure that you connect your reasoning back to the audience and how it specifically affects them. I totally agree with your claim but one change I would suggest is rephrasing your claim as I feel like you repeated the claim many times throughout your essay without rephrasing it in different ways so it became very repetitive but overall it was a very good essay.
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Jackson Konzelmann
10/28/2022 04:39:40 am
I like hoe you always went back to the audience, I also really like how you taked about indepence and depence casues. I also found it intersing that the author always went back to the future and furture generations.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 07:08:21 am
This directly means that even though students are taught how to be successful within the perimeter of a classroom with testing abilities and useless memorization of irreverent facts, they are not taught how to succeed in the outside world in the future.--This is a summary of the quote. What is the quote actually saying?
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Lauren Cheedle
10/27/2022 05:10:45 am
1. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/09/28/colleges-must-invest-more-mental-health-opinion
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Emma Collard
10/27/2022 05:11:59 am
Hi Lauren!
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 07:13:46 am
Your body paragraphs needed to begin with a line of reasoning (use a sentence frame).
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Addison Carnow
10/27/2022 05:12:29 am
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-03-23/post-pandemic-educational-mess Morgan Polikoff
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andreea
10/27/2022 05:30:58 am
The use of percentages is commonly used as an appeal to the human mind which can be used to both further logical and emotional appeals, due to the fact that to humans, percentages and other statistics coupled with words such as "nearly" "at least" "merely" "almost" etcetera, can be used to exaggerate and hyperbolize pieces of information, which can convince the audience that a situation is dire or that a certain statistic prevalent is unacceptable. Perhaps you could've explained your author's use of percentage statistics a bit better by explaining the purpose they are accomplishing.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 07:19:29 am
The bolstered credibility forces the education community to agree on the facts proving that the pandemic has drastically changed education, primarily for the worse.---Towards what purpose? Go back to your summary paragraph.
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Samuel Koul Biar
10/27/2022 05:13:27 am
https://huntnewsnu.com/64775/editorial/op-ed-why-the-american-education-system-is-failing-us/
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Samuel Koul Biar
10/27/2022 05:19:56 am
I forgot to my adress my audience, My audience is parents that are concerned about education in America.
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Dyuman
10/27/2022 05:25:16 am
I like how you address the authors blunt and straightforward statement on the american education. I also like how you included how bad the american education is in todays time.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 07:32:47 am
Even though this is a blog, I am still looking for certain skills. You keep repeating "goes on to list" over and over in your opening paragraph but then you specifically name strategies in your topic sentences. Those strategies should have been incorporated in that first paragraph.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 07:35:02 am
You also forget to talk about the effectivness of the article.
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andreea
10/27/2022 05:13:35 am
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/10/22/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-wont-stopped-republicans-lawsuits/10545586002/
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andreea forgot to do a summary and analysis whether stuff was effective
10/27/2022 05:24:43 am
Cardona begins his article by listing several things that Biden signed in order to lower costs for American families. He then says that Republican officials in 7 states are attempting to sue to block the Student Loan relief act. He then states exactly to whom these benefits are going to be going to, teachers, nurses, hair stylists, veterans, and home healthcare workers across both red and blue states. He brings up a point about these people being the same people Republicans promised to fight for when they were elected, and then he proceeds to list the bills that Republicans *didn't* file lawsuits against, that all expressly benefitted the wealthy and powerful. He then states that Republicans will not stop relief and that the Biden administration is going to continue to push the Relief bill. He then lists some more about the bill, who can get relief, how, etc.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:00:44 am
And, get this: these are the people Republicans “promised to fight for when they were elected.” ---Affect on audience. You could have mentioned that it causes the audience to reflect on who they voted for and why and wether they are living up to their promise.
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Dyuman
10/27/2022 05:17:13 am
https://observer-reporter.com/opinion/op-eds/op-ed-some-thoughts-on-forgiving-student-loans/article_ac89cf14-2eb4-11ed-b276-af1c8fbe08f4.html
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Gregory Park
10/27/2022 05:22:34 am
Ultimately your analysis is very good. However, a question that I have is, would the third paragraph of your analysis also appealing to logic as well as giving a sense of credibility?
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Dyuman
10/27/2022 05:29:33 am
In the article “some thoughts on forgiving student loans”, Gary Stout talks about Biden releasing student debts based on certain income requirements, giving republicans objections on it and giving stats to contradict those objections.
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Lauren Cheedle
10/27/2022 05:33:08 am
Hello! I like how clearly your analysis gives quotes and rhetorical strategies the author uses. However, it may benefit you by referring to who the audience is, and how the logic affects them. An example may be how the author uses a straightforward tone that may express his sincerity, drawing in the audience.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:05:19 am
This gives a basis on what the article will inform the audience about which is the cancellation of student loan debt. The audience is persuaded to listen to Gary Stout because a well known person is being based off of Stout's opinionated article.---This commentary and analysis is vague and repetative.
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Gregory Park
10/27/2022 05:17:15 am
https://sites.psu.edu/stephenjzimmerer/alternative-mediums-of-presentation/op-ed-sexual-education-in-the-k-12-curriculum
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Hanna Laabid
10/27/2022 09:52:43 am
Hey, Gregory! I found your op-ed topic very interesting but I think you could’ve elaborated more with your commentary, specifically why is it important to teach sexual education to teens.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:12:33 am
You never fully explain why the evidence bolsters their credibility or why they even need to bolster their credibility.
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10/27/2022 05:18:44 am
https://www.edweek.org/education/opinion-is-book-banning-a-21st-century-skill/2012/01
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:19:30 am
If the second paragraph is supposed to be your intro paragrah, you have no thesis.
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Daniel Rodriguez
10/27/2022 05:22:23 am
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:24:12 am
Much of what you wrote were simple summaries without meaningful commentary. Choose two strategies and go into depth with commentary.
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Reece Jeong-Hoon Donahue
10/27/2022 05:37:41 am
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-middle-school-should-be-abolished?amp%3Butm_campaign=Feed%3A%20thedailybeast%2Farticles%20(The%20Daily%20Beast%20-%20Latest%20Articles)&%3Butm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:39:03 am
uses words with strong connotations ---such as?
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Amy Zeledon
10/27/2022 05:47:20 am
Blog post 2
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Vanessa Muniz
10/28/2022 04:53:03 am
I like at the end how you tied everything together perfectly by going back to the reason of the college in prison. The story was very interesting because I have read it before in AP psych, so what you have gives the story a better understanding of what went down.
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Ava
10/28/2022 06:00:13 am
Hey Amy! I appreciate how detailed your writing is however I think that being very detailed in your summary contradicts the whole point of a summary, however it also give your body paragraphs very informative!
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Ava
10/28/2022 06:04:35 am
Makes*
Vanetta July
10/29/2022 08:51:26 am
This is supposed to cause fellow professors and those who are involved in the education of prison institutions to realize that the education in prison changes the ways of life of professors.----Why did it make him change his view?
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Emma
10/27/2022 08:47:29 am
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-03-23/post-pandemic-educational-mess
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 09:05:44 am
Morgan conveys the student performance data compared to state tests to help the audience better understand what the effect of the pandemic was on student education.--Which was?
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10/27/2022 09:33:10 am
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-12/sex-education-abortion-bans
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Lauren Ramos
10/27/2022 06:09:11 pm
Hi! I think you did a well job on referring back to Keli Goffs purpose in writing her op-ed! In my own interpretation Goff mentions the inconsistency of the states and their less drive of teaching sex-education even with high rates of teen-pregnancy, hurting young people who are in distressed in poverty, which can appeal to compassion to the audience of young people in poverty and anger to the states education system.
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Amy Zeledon
10/28/2022 07:20:01 am
I really enjoyed reading the Op-Ed, I think the topic is very interesting and opened a new perspective for me. I liked how the Op-Ed placed the idea of taking the time for driver ed for preparation and guide lines for students who cannot drive for their safety and the others, and the other idea that shouldn´t ¨ the same care and concern be applied to sexual education since it is also a matter of life and death?¨ to showcase the importance that sex education helps young people but also to those that have been affected by the abortion bands in states.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 09:16:28 am
You start off by talking about bolstering credibility but you never explain why? You give evidence on how she is bolstering her credibility but you do not explain how the evidence does that.
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Hanna Laabid
10/27/2022 09:38:10 am
https://observer-reporter.com/op-ed-fact-school-shootings-are-rare/article_e30348c0-11a1-11ed-aee5-572b960341c8.html
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 09:34:42 am
Why is she trying to bolster her credibility? Not explained.
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Grayson
10/27/2022 01:38:24 pm
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/sharonville/2014/11/12/column-want-top-teachers-need-pay/18543261/
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 09:38:21 am
This quote furthers Talyor’s message by appealing to our sympathy toward teachers because we can now realize the underpayment of teachers.--You offer a lot of evidence in this paragraph, but this is your commentary. It is limited.
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Sajni Patel
10/27/2022 02:21:59 pm
1. Copy and paste the URL of the article
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 09:42:51 am
Dr. Williams does this in order to have the readers of the article to reflect on how crucial the issue of student loan debt is.---How does your evidence support this claim? Spell it out!
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Elshaday Ftsum Tekeste
10/27/2022 04:41:54 pm
1) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/opinion/student-loan-debt-relief-biden.html
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Elshaday Ftsum Tekeste1
10/27/2022 04:49:21 pm
*continuation of the third question*
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Lauren Ramos
10/27/2022 05:52:58 pm
LINK:
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Lauren Ramos
10/27/2022 05:55:34 pm
.... approved and put into the states education systems which are evidently harming students.
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Vanetta July
10/29/2022 10:03:27 am
Your commentary is vague! You start talking about one thing in the last paragraph but then start talking about another thing? You do not consistently connect to the rhetorical situation.
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Emerson Humphrey
10/27/2022 06:08:20 pm
https://nul.org/news/op-ed-whos-pay-detrimental-cost-higher-education
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Ella Case
10/28/2022 04:30:23 am
I really enjoyed reading your Op-Ed. I think the topic is very interesting and you did a really good job on writing your topic! The way you worded you Op-Ed made it really easy to read and grasp the concept.
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Max
10/28/2022 05:18:01 am
In the third paragraph, I think the evidence you chose to use was strong and supported your analysis of the authors juxtaposition well.
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Koome!!
10/28/2022 05:47:35 am
You really took your time on this and made sure to analyze the text. You communicated your points very well and kept going back to your purpose and audience. I also admire your use of the author's name which adds detail to your analysis!
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 05:01:28 am
Hussain’s appeals to logic provide a shock factor,---How or Why would this be shocking to the readers?
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Jason Nguyen
10/30/2022 10:47:24 am
I really liked how you explained all your evidence! It easily helped me understand the importance of the evidence and the effects it has on the audience.
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In order to convey his message that school is a waste of time and money Bryan Caplan bolsters his credibility through juxtaposing and quoting relevant evidence in order to change adults and teacher's mind about school. Bryan Caplan starts his essay by saying, "I am a a professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of "The Case against Education. I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social values of schooling." He juxtaposes the two sentences by saying that he is a teacher who disagrees with school. He presents himself as a highly educated professor and then takes a jab at the idea of schooling. By doing so he prompts the audience to wonder why a teacher would have this view, and what changed in the teacher's life to cause this view. He then goes on to write, "My work focuses on tests of adult knowledge-what adults retain after high school." He boosts his credibility by diving deeper into what he actually does and because we already know he is a college professor he seems more qualified to write this article. He has conveyed himself as a smart and dignified professor so the audience is more likely to listen and agree with his views. The more people that agree the more likely that the change he wants to see will happen.
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Bella
10/27/2022 07:15:21 pm
Forgot to write a summary.
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Bella Norton
10/27/2022 08:06:23 pm
Bella Norton*
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Bella Norton
10/27/2022 08:12:18 pm
I replied to the wrong Bella, ignore that comment
Vanetta July
10/30/2022 05:50:28 am
The more people that agree the more likely that the change he wants to see will happen.---Which is?
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10/27/2022 07:22:12 pm
OP-ED
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Mallory Karrenstein
10/28/2022 06:06:46 am
I really liked your analysis. I thought it was really strongly written. You explained all your evidence and made your points easy to grasp.
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 05:58:30 am
Dávila bolsters her credibility be mentioning to us the case in 1946 which was The Mendez Family fighting segregation way before Brown v.s Education. Her student was shocked which proves Dávila´ a point even more that schools are failing to inform their students about their Latinx history. They teach only European history but never ours. Speaking about this informs the audience which are students,parents, and even the school board. This is something that is meant for everyone to read and reflect just how much we lack in our school systems curriculums. ---First, do not write in the first person. Second, why is she trying to boost her credibility? How does your evidence do that?
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Bella Norton
10/27/2022 08:04:46 pm
1. https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2022/01/05/op-ed-social-emotional-learning-not-critical-race-theory/6486957001/
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Morgan Furr
10/28/2022 06:06:21 am
I like the way that you expanded on the rhetorical strategies that the author used.
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 06:04:46 am
statement ---This is where you put the audience.
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Ella Case
10/28/2022 04:22:15 am
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/school-anxiety-dreams.html\
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 06:28:00 am
In order to convey her message that these anxiety dreams about school have a deeper meaning,---You talk about all the experts but what is the connection to this deeper meaning?
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10/28/2022 04:36:46 am
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 06:36:09 am
Now that they have established their position ---Which is?
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Vanessa Muniz
10/28/2022 04:40:27 am
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-14/public-school-enrollment-lausd-desegregation
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 06:58:28 am
In the first body paragraph, a lot of your commentary misinterprets the evidence or is vague.
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Max
10/28/2022 05:07:16 am
In order to convey his message that student debt should be forgiven, Williams appeals to the audience's sense of justice by addressing how student debt disproportionately affects minority students. He states that student debt has “the greatest negative impact on African-American students” meaning that student debt is unreasonably affecting black students. This is supposed to cause lawmakers and people against student debt relief to realize that student debt is unequal and borderline racist. Williams then mentions that “the Net Worth of African-American families is projected to hit $0” meaning that the net worth of African Americans is depleting because of debt. Williams wrote this in order to show the lawmakers and nonsupporters of debt relief, that student debt really is a crisis and that if not addressed, the Net Worth of black people will plummet.
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Max Allen
10/28/2022 05:08:45 am
Forgot to include:
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Max Allen
10/28/2022 05:15:37 am
The line of reasoning the author used was an effective way of supporting better financial aid. By demonstrating inequalities in student debt, it was made apparent that student debt is unequal and unjust. By using logical appeals to statistics, it demonstrates evidence that is not easily countable. By demonstrating that this is an issue that affects both democrats and republicans it unites the audience no matter what their political affliction is. All this comes together to support the authors stance that student debt is essential and should be expanded.
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 07:25:07 am
the Net Worth of black people will plummet.---Why should they care?
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Corrie McArthur
10/28/2022 05:34:04 am
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/midterms-schools-parents.html
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 07:31:46 am
The first paragraph lists a lot of things but needs more commentary in between to connect things in the lists to the line of reasoning.
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 07:34:13 am
In the second body, you mention a call to action but you never say what she wants the audience to do.
Koome!!
10/28/2022 05:43:17 am
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/21/universities-must-stop-cheating-students-and-it-starts-with-investing-in-them
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Koome again!
10/28/2022 05:45:48 am
It was too long ;(
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Ava Williams
10/28/2022 05:46:15 am
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-25/prevent-school-shootings-guns-texas-uvalde
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Ava Williams (Part 2)
10/28/2022 06:02:46 am
der 21, enforces the effectiveness of an age restriction on certain guns and how it could reduce mass shootings. This not only provides the audience with real examples of preventative gun laws and restrictions that could act as solutions to decreasing mass shootings, but it also provides real life anecdotes of how these laws have either worked in the past or of how, if said law was in effect, these laws could have helped to prevent a specific shooting. This makes the author’s solutions seem more credible to the readers, which in turn, further gains the support of the readers on enacting stricter gun laws and restrictions in order to reduce school shootings. By doing this, the author effectively conveys that there are several ways to prevent school shootings and that we don’t necessarily need to rely on stopping a shooting after it's already begun.
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Mallory Karrenstein
10/28/2022 05:48:17 am
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-good-the-bad-the-everything/2021/06/04/d1680230-c4cd-11eb-9a8d-f95d7724967c_story.html
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Mallory Karrenstein
10/28/2022 05:56:28 am
Mine was too long so I shared it with you.
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10/28/2022 06:05:06 am
1. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/09/28/colleges-must-invest-more-mental-health-opinion
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Lilah Childers
10/28/2022 12:56:11 pm
I'm a High School Junior. Let's Talk About 'Huckleberry Finn' and 'Mockingbird.'
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Kailin Marciniak
10/28/2022 01:55:46 pm
https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/workplace-talent/op-ed-how-fashion-education-prevents-inclusivity/
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 07:47:11 am
of the issue at hand. ---Which is?
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Wil McKean
10/30/2022 09:42:25 am
Hey Kailin!
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Reyna Lee
10/30/2022 01:58:12 pm
Hi Kailin!
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Ahtziri Prestegui Loeza
10/28/2022 08:33:21 pm
1. https://huntnewsnu.com/64775/editorial/op-ed-why-the-american-education-system-is-failing-us/
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 07:51:45 am
Trapp provokes a sense of consideration---What strategy is this?
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Daniela Betancourt Santibanez
10/29/2022 07:48:31 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/15/opinion/hispanic-heritage-latinx-studies.html
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Daniela Betancourt Santibanez
10/29/2022 07:52:18 pm
Latino students because of the fact that they don’t know much about their history because it isn't mentioned in other subjects. Dávilla wants the school board to add more Latinx programs so that the Latino students can feel included and represented. In order to further her claim that there should be more Latinx programs in school’s so that Latinos can feel represented, she further establishes her credibility by stating how she was once like her students, not knowing about Latino history, she says, “ Seeing my students’ reactions takes me back to when I was a student, decades ago. Most of the classes I took focused on Europeans, but there was little to no mention of Latino or African American history in the United States.I learned about Latinx art, culture and history on my own, and mostly during graduate school.” This quote emphasizes that Dávilla had to learn about Latino culture on her own because her classes only focused on Europeans. Cognizant of the fact that she had to do her own research on Latino history, this is important because it emphasizes how Dávilla is credible because she experienced not having Latinx programs when she was a student. It highlights how Dávilla knows how Latino students feel when they aren’t being represented, they feel underappreciated or even forgotten. It also highlights that Dávila is credible enough to argue about there not being enough Latino representation because she was a studen with no Latino studies, and now she is a teacher that teaches students who don’t know much about Latino history because of the lack of Latino studies. By Dávilla sharing her own experience she hopes that the school board or the people in charge of adding programs in school’s will feel motivated to want to change the programs, by adding more so that there is more representation for everyone.
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 07:57:44 am
A lot of your commentary is repetative. Others really do not address what the evidence is really about.
Finna Young
10/30/2022 06:27:23 am
1. Copy and Paste the URL of your article.
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Vanetta July
10/30/2022 08:12:49 am
Forgot to analyze the effectiveness of her arguement.
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Will T McKean
10/30/2022 09:35:33 am
https://www.essence.com/op-ed/why-school-dress-codes-need-a-makeover/
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10/30/2022 10:39:07 am
2. The Op-Ed article written by Arlene Dávila demonstrates the underrepresentation of Latinx programs/classes and communities in the education system. Dávila explores the identities of Latinx students in higher education which have been lost due to underfunding of Latinx study programs and the marginalization of Latinx peoples in faculty and states that we must challenge these issues.
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Jason Nguyen
10/30/2022 10:48:35 am
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/15/opinion/hispanic-heritage-latinx-studies.html
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Ethan Blackmon
10/30/2022 11:45:35 am
In his 1987 Op-Ed piece written for the New York Times, James Reston condemns President Reagan and his criticisms of the education system which implied that schools should face the brunt of the blame for the national decline in morals and ethics.
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Ethan Blackmon
10/30/2022 11:46:34 am
This is the URL: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/12/opinion/washington-reagan-on-education.html
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Ethan Blackmon
10/30/2022 12:04:22 pm
Not enough room for my whole analysis. I have shared it with you.
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Reyna Lee
10/30/2022 01:51:07 pm
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-03-23/post-pandemic-educational-mess
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Ethan Blackmon
10/30/2022 03:01:41 pm
Hey Reyna! I thoroughly enjoyed your analysis of Polikoff's Op-Ed and it presented a very thoughtprovoking set of ideas. I do however think that in your opening paragraph you could've been more specific when you wrote about Polikoff's proposal that the government "do something about it." Maybe something about what she is proposing specifically? This persists in the next paragraph when you claim that she is encouraging the government to simply "make proper decisions."
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Nicole Vastis
10/30/2022 06:10:49 pm
Pandemic Learning Loss Is Not an Emergency was written by David Wallace-Wells on why he believes that learning loss during the pandemic isn’t as catastrophic as it seems.
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Nicole Vastis
10/30/2022 06:11:38 pm
the link didn't work but here it is:
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Megan Love
10/31/2022 01:07:24 pm
Hey Nicole! Wallace-Wells presents a very interesting take. You did a really great job in explaining your evidence and keeping your essay sophisticated however, I will say it would’ve strengthen your essay have you talked about wether or not you believe the rhetorical choices and line of reasoning was effective in Wallace-Wells article.
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Rithik Ramkumar
10/31/2022 03:39:24 am
1.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/sunday/sleep-school-start-time-screens-teenagers.html
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Rithik Ramkumar
10/31/2022 03:48:53 am
I Shared my google doc with you, as the entire analysis was so long, that it could not fit on the page
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10/31/2022 07:54:49 am
https://www.senatorscottmartinpa.com/2022/09/01/op-ed-bipartisan-education-reforms-set-up-students-for-success/
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Vanetta July
10/31/2022 08:07:50 am
In order for Scott Martin, Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, conveys his message using emotion and logic to brief and inform parents and families on the Bipartisan Education reform. ---Sounds awkward.
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NoahM
10/31/2022 10:22:46 am
1. Opinion: The forgotten power of character education in today's America (mercurynews.com)
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Vanetta July
10/31/2022 10:28:07 am
You talk about credibility, but you do not explain how the example boosts her credibility.
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Megan Love
10/31/2022 12:57:35 pm
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-26/pandemic-learning-loss-test-scores-nations-report-card
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Megan Love
10/31/2022 01:10:18 pm
)Rhetorical analysis contd.) her claim.
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Vanetta July
11/2/2022 06:44:56 am
You mention that part of her title is "do not make a big deal" but you never really talked about that in the analysis.
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