explanatory synthesis essay

Xiaoya Zhu, Jing Ye, Kefei Li, Lanni Yu, Hyesoo Cho

ENL 213

Outline

10/27/2017

              Topic :  Cost of College Tuition

Rough Draft

1. Introduction : Hook :How tuition related to our life as a student +

Thesis : the reasons tuition goes up: (increasing enrollment, facilities, administration, athletics, etc.)

0. Body 1

1. Body 2

2. Body 3

3. Conclusion

Article 1

Summary: In “The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much”, Campos states that the reason why college tuition increases rapidly is not the decreasing state funding. In fact, public investment for higher education is larger. However, because of the increasing number of enrollment in college, the investment per student is lower than before. What’s more, the tuition was not spent on typical professors’ salaries. Instead, those money was spent on expanding college administration (Campos, 2015).

Critique:

· Entertainment and informing

· The author uses inflation-adjusted terms to compare the tuition and other cost n today and the past, which makes the article more reliable.

· Author’s own experience to prove his idea in order to persuade readers.

· Having good logics and offering new opinions to conclude the reasons of increasing college tuition. The increasing number of students in college causes the decreasing state funding per student. With more students, the college expended administrators, which costs much money. Those are the reasons of rapidly increasing college tuition.

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Article 2

Summary:In Ann E.K. Sobel’s ‘The Escalating Cost of College’, Sobel lists reasons the students need to pay for such a high tuition are the high salary they need to pay for the school presidents, nice facilities around the campus, and the cost of athletics. Sobel thinks the last two factors are not that important to raise the tuition, instead the study programs are what the students need to focus on.

Critique:

· Sobel did explain the purpose of going to the college and the students should really be awareness of where their money spend in the university.

· Students are overwhelmed by the physical experiences about how nice the school looks and how big the cafeteria is. Actually, they should pay more attention to academics .

· The cost of other fields except academy has become major portion of the expense of the school.

· The investments on other facilitations are important for the students’ development, but they does not worth that much price.

· School should really reduce the cost of the unnecessary cost to balance the budgets.

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Article 3

Summary: there are two thing could cause college tuition increase. One is that college spend more, and the other is college ask students to pay more to fund current spendings. Staffs including faculties, buildings, sports events and researches.

Critiques:

· Explanatory

· Objective + accurate data

· Current updated

· The author explains two big direction where the tuition goes

· The author talks about several stories along with explanations

· While the cost of a college education at all levels has risen dramatically, financial aid has not kept pace.  

· Many states are cutting cost for high education so that college are trying to make up by rising tuition.

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