Your So-Called Education Summary

Are the kids of this century beginning to become content with not making progress? In the articles “Your So Called Education” by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa along with “In Praise of the ‘F’ Word” by Mary Sherry the authors try to convey information on how to improve students overall.. Arum/Roksa use imagery as one of their techniques to draw the reader in. Along with imagery Arum/Roksa use statistics to add to their article making the article have a superior tone. The question is which author conveyed their information in a more concise and persuasive manner. In my opinion Arum/Roksa project their using better technique than Sherry did in her article.

Firstly in the article “Your So-Called Education” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa adds substance to the point they are trying to prove by inserting statistics into their article. For example the first point being communicated is that students aren’t making the progress they are supposed to make. The reason the authors give is that institutions rely primarily on student evaluations of courses instead of academic departments and professors remaining rigorous. Due to this institutions are becoming less strict and students are just getting without putting in the hours of studying. Arum and Roska state that 36 percent of students studied
Authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa use imagery and statistics very clearly and convenient manner. An example of the authors doing this throughout the article is when they stated “The average spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying - about half the time a full time college student in 1960 spent studying…”(Arum/Roksa 2), this is a good example of how the authors tied imagery and stats to convey their point. Mary Sherry on the other hand relies on strictly imagery to communicate to the reader which isn’t as strongly