Immigrant children education choices
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Outlineessay31.docxZahraa Alquraini
Dr. Rhee
English 812
April 10, 2019
Essay 3 (Outline)
The Effect of Immigrant Parents on their Children Choices of Education
Thesis:
Parent immigrants can influence their children education choices as they go to college. Immigrants children tend to choose their college majors based on their parent career, expectation and financial status.
Point 1: Parent Inspiration
Topic sentence: Most of college immigrant students follow their parent career when they choose their majors in college.
Counterclaim: immigrant student choose their major based on their interest and they mostly choose different majors than their parent
Support point: Students are often inspired by their parent because they value and honor them since their childhood.
Evidence 1:
Parent dedication to their work can make a huge impact on their children career choices (Hohn & Mohammed 4)
Evidence 2: Provide outside scholar source
Point 2: Parent Expectation
Topic sentence:
Parent sometimes pushes their children to choose certain majors that they think that are better choices.
Counterclaim: immigrant parent support and respect their children choices.
Support point: Some students admit that they chose their majors based on their parent expectation.
Evidence 1:
Immigrant parents want to reach their American dream through their children, which affect the children education choices just to please their parent. (Hohn & Mohammad 3)
Evidence 2: Poon Article have good examples
Evidence 3: Provide outside scholar source
Point 3: Parent Financial Status
Topic sentence:
The tuition for college in the U.S. is very expensive in general, which make the financial status of the students’ parents an important factor that affect their education choices.
Counterclaim:
Some parent children have a strong degree and salary or have a good business that help them support their children education.
Support point:
Immigrants students who came from a low-income family are more likely to struggle if they want to pursue a higher education.
Evidence 1:
Asian immigrants are more likely to hold a high skill position like engineering or medical profession, where on the other hand, the Latino immigrants are mostly holding positions like unskilled labor or manual workers due to their low financial status. (Baum 173)
Evidence 2: Provide outside scholar source
Work Cited
Hond Marcia & Mohammed Denzil. “New Kind of Ellis Island as Second-Generation Immigrants Land on College Campuses” EBSCO Host. Web. April 10, 2019
