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NOW, Rhetorical Précis

In the article, “NOW Opposes Single-Sex Public Education as Separate and Unequal,” the National Organization of Women (NOW) argues that the new regulations allowing public schools to offer single-sex education to be another form of segregation been extended in public institutions funded by federal taxes. The National Organization of Women supports its claim by arguing the action will advance separation of sexes of the young people in their formative years due enhanced opportunity of allowing sex stereotypes to be spread easily with the limited interaction of boys and girls in their young age. The purpose of the National Organization of Women is to persuade the policy makers and the general public on the dangers of promoting single-sex in public schools in order to convince them to backtrack the decision to introduce a single-sex education system in American society. The National Organization of Women employs a rhetoric tone for the policy makers and the general public interested on the equality and the social justice in America.

Lukas, Rhetorical Précis

In the article, “Single Sex Doesn’t Mean Segregation,” Lukas argues that the introduction of the single sex education in American public schools does not amount to segregation as is been claimed by the National Organization of Women. Lukas supports his line of argument by observing some boys or girls may be distracted from their academic work under a mixed education system and the prestigious schools in America offer single sex education compared to the public schools, which needs the choice of the parents to decide the best education system for their parents. Lukas purpose in his argument is to dispel the notion by the National Organization of Women in rejecting the single sex education in public schools in order to win the support for the single sex education in public schools. Lukas targets the general public interested in the education reforms in American society through the use of convincing tone.