College Dropout Analysis

College dropouts is normal to have on a college campus. Most people tend to think the same thing about college dropouts –they drop out because it didn’t work for them or they are not intellectually prepared for college. Moreover, there are reasons that are not mentioned the most. Money. Money plays a huge factor with college attendance and college dropout and most of the time it is overlooked as a reason. My older sister, whom is African American, was not able to finish her 4-year degree at college because my family was not able to afford it. Now, being back home people think that she was not academically ready to be at college and therefore dropped out. I know my sister is intelligent, and if given the opportunity to have money would do fine
The intended audience is other parents that struggle to send their kids off to college, and people who are against the high price of colleges. Personal evidence is provided with this article because they use a personal narrative. Using a personal narrative is a method they use to get their point across. Because it’s a personal narrative, it is easier for the reader to understand since it plays off emotional appeal. Therefore, more people are able to connect and understand what the author is trying to explain. This is similar to Hauser because this explains how college effects people financially stable wise. They both have the same stance that the cost of higher education plays tremendously amount on African American college dropout. The major observation is that financial aid didn’t provide as much money to college students as most people think. A comment made was “the federal government must invest more, not less, in student financial aid given” (Washington and Salmon). There strategy consisted of using a personal narrative and statics to give them creditably and emotion appeal in order to get their point
Baird Shuman the author of, College Drop-Out: An Overview, believes that the drop out rates is due to attending military training, left to take employment, ill health, or transferred to another school. None of his reasoning’s had anything to deal with being financially stable to pay for college. They took there stand by stating what they think their reasons are for drop out, even though they say that it is not full reason, these are the reasons they infer it to be. The evidence that they provided was a survey that they token. There was a survey of 247 dropouts from DePauw University it was found that thirty were dropped for low scholarship, twenty-nine had a change of interest, twenty-eight withdrew for financial reasons” (Shuman, 348). Even though they touch up on financial reasons throughout Shumans papers he doesn’t talk about it as much. The intended audience for this paper would be for people who are giving evidence for how drop outs of college play an effect on colleges incomes. With this information, we could see why this paper does not look at the financial stability of African American students. There main focus is on the amount of money a college will loose because of the high drop out rate. This shows that other people don’t think that students drop out of college for financial stability, but because students tend to do other things, but attend college. The strategies that are used by this author is the survey that they intended for drop out students. The