The Claim, is to inherit sport majors for student athletes who play their sports as full time jobs and tend to spend more time than all the general studies classes they have to partake in.

The reasons, most of the time they go and play the sport intending to make into a professional career, and when they are also playing the sport they put more time and dedication to it because they want too and I think in most case scenarios so do coaches. To end corruption in NCAA sports, something to learn from.

The value has gone down because as colleges are open to debt and taking loans which result into higher tuition. Students can determine the financial payoff of their college educations by finding what is the cheapest route, quickest, and combatable.

• Claim: College debt compared to what it was years ago is now becoming a scheme because of more students getting diplomas not getting the job they want and have tons of loan money to make up for.
• Reason: Getting into college is harder and harder so only joining a “good college” or “top 25 college” was a like a guarantee but very expensive.
• Evidence: The author Dale Archer who attended at Tulane back in the 1970’s its tuition, room, and board cost $2,500 per year. Now, it is up to $60,000!
• Reason: A college education ranks along with owning your own home as the foundation of an American Dream.
• Evidence: The median household income between 2007-2011 was $52,762 as universities cashed in at $36,300.
• Reason: The higher education system as a whole is broken and with the price of the diploma climbing each semester, it is quickly becoming a race to nowhere.
• Evidence: The national student debt with reach $1 trillion this year.
• Reason: Trade schools is alternative for school for a fraction of the cost.
• Evidence: A 2011 Harvard graduate school of education reports only 56 percent of students get their Bachelor’s degree within six years, and actually encourage high school teachers to persuade their students to consider trade school.

1. The aim of argument that should have been used was arguing to inquire.
2. They violated the aim of argument by taking the issue personal like Steven Colbert did and should have looked in other people’s eyes to see why they are for or against the issue.
3. What the two speakers violated was they were not openly constructive to criticism from each other and both got really sensitive. The second thing was we did not understand the argument’s contexts because they were just shouting and being very personal of the issue. Lastly, the third was they did not consider any of the audience’s opinion on the matter and was just a personal discussion between Steve Carell and Steven Colbert.
4. By not sticking to an aim or using the criteria for responsible reasoning it had no final verdict of the argument. The issue was left still open for argument because they both did not find a higher ground or solution to what they were trying to prove towards the issue.
5. What could help by following those things towards assignment three is that it will keep me on track throughout the paper. I will be able to speak my opinion in a mature way and being able to hear what the audience around me has to say. The aims of argument and the criteria for responsible reasoning guides me throughout the assignment to get me the grade I want and to be a great writer.

1. Sally’s proposed solution is very controversial because she is taking shots at the recruiters, coaches, and the presidents of these academic programs illegally paying players to go to their respective schools. Also to the point where if these athletes are not getting paid and doing a bunch of labor. Sally says if the athletes were able to major in their specific sport there would be less corruption going on within the recruiting business. Mostly, the athletes will side with sally because they are the ones going through this and can relate the hardships of being a student athlete. Who would disagree are the presidents and the trustees of the schools because it is just another issue they have to face as a school and does not want a bad rep for it.

Claim: If schools would stop being half ashamed of college sports and using athletics as a ticket for profit they could cure all the corruptions happening within the school.

Reason: Illegal recruiting, paying athletes, for example university of Miami scandal.

• Claim: Students should be able to major in just the sport they are playing.

Reason: Varsity athletes deserve significant academic credits for their incredibility long hours of training and practice.

1. Social Media, the new propaganda for political influences. What I am trying to say is people try to convey or point out political stances to make you become apart fo that political party. Especially the president of the United States and presidential nominees.
2. Should loans be available to students that need them if the government gradually increases tuition because of it? This is a good argument because if the amount of tuition for college keeps increasing can most people really afford the loans in the long tenure because you do not know how the economy itself is stable.
3. If college athletes should be paid? I believe if they are a full time student at the college they are attending they deserve a payroll rather than not being a full time student.

1. Your brain is a mental muscle of learning. The way you learn matters and how to input it to make specific tools to open more when learning. So finding a way to experience learning can also be in video games which most people say it is a bad experience. It’s not what you are thinking but how your thinking.
2. Johnson uses algebra for example that 99 percent of those kids will never again use outside the classroom. From John Dewey’s book “Experience and Education”, you can see that the brain is only focused on the task at hand not what they just learned from their last class 20 min ago. The fundamentals of the brain and the way it learns video games can do that because it gives them more chances to develop tools. The brain is a muscle that needs to be built up.
3. The fundamentals of the brain and the way it learns catches the mental stability on how to get its learning and to make it building blocks to help you everyday in your life. Trustworthy, when an author’s argument reasons with readers experience. Reason=Logical=Makes sense given context.
4. I do find the argument convincing because it has happen to me in some cases playing video games and I have witnessed other people do the same as well. So what comes from what people label as bad is also a good thing.

• Critical readers must detect the relationship between the claim and its supporting material. They must also evaluate the relevance and validity of the support, and also “read between the lines”.
• Critical reading means engaging through questioning the text.
• Strategies for critical reading: Once through is not enough.
• First encounters: Skimming for context, reading the content.
• Second encounters: Reading to detect the case.
• Third encounters: Responding to an argument.
• Strategy: Before reading, skim (and surf) for context.
• Strategy: Skim to preview the whole argument.
• Strategy: Annotate as you read.
• Strategy: Outlining the case
• Strategy: Paraphrasing
• Strategy: Summarizing
• Strategy: Joining the Conversation
• Rhetorical context means the background for the text, such as who it.
• Questions for determining rhetorical context: WHO wrote this argument? What are the writer’s occupation, personal background, and political learnings? TO WHOM is the author writing? Arguments are usually aimed at a specific audience, such as entertainment industry moguls, undecided voters, or parents of teenagers. WHERE does the argument appear? If it is reprinted or inserted into a website, where did it originally appear? Is the source reliable? WHEN was the argument written? If not recently, what do you know about the circumstances in which it was written. WHY was the argument written? What is the Authors Purpose?
• Analogy two things are compared in the hope that if the audience accepts something as true for one half of the comparison, then they will accept it as true for the other half.
• Paraphrase requires very close reading and the ability to translate an entire idea into your own words.
• Paraphrasing is not easy, but it helps you absorb the ideas and makes you think harder about them.
• guidelines for paraphrasing:
• 1. Read the whole argument.
• 2. Look up any unfamiliar words or allusions.
• 3. Read through the passage slowly, try to explain it to somebody who has not read it.
• 4. Set the original passage aside.
• 5. Write your own version of the passage.
• 6. Use your own words, but do not strain to change every single word.
• 7. If you take a phrase or a loaded word from the passage enclose it with quotation marks.
• A summary includes just the main points of the original argument.
• Chunking the Argument: Set up the topic or issue in a way that gets the readers’ attention. State the claim. Qualify the claim, explaining any exceptions. Define a key term or terms. Give background information on the topic. Give a reason and support it with evidence. Give an opposing view and refute it. Make a concession by agreeing with an opposing point. Conclude by driving home the point.

• The Aims of Argument is based on two related concepts: argument and rhetoric.
• Argument is defined as reasoned thinking.
• Essence of an argument is a claim also defined as a thesis because it is what an argument attempts to prove, and a reason that supports the claim.
• A reason is a sentence telling why the claim should be accepted as true.
• Claim: Video games are intellectually stimulating.
• Reason: Video games force players to weigh evidence, analyze situations, and quickly make correct decisions.
• Reasons need to be supported with evidence, facts, examples, expert testimony, and so on.
• Rhetoric is defined as the art of effective persuasion.
• Ancient Greece was when rhetoric was invented about 2,500 years ago.
• Rhetoric is used in many ways besides speech, any kind of communication, or symbol that has the potential to influence people.
• Responsible Argument is used to distinguish those that show responsible reasoning from those that show poor, or carless, reasoning.
• The four criteria of responsible reasoning is: 1.Responsible reasoners are well-informed. 2. Responsible reasoners are self-critical and open to constructive criticism from others. 3. Responsible reasoners argue with their audiences or readers in mind. 4. Responsible reasoners know their arguments contexts.
• Responsible reasoners instead of just trying to argue they try to inquire into a question, problem, or issue to convince their readers to assent to an opinion or claim, to persuade readers to take action, and to mediate conflict.
• Conviction is defined as an earned opinion achieved through careful thought research and discussion.
• Persuasion attempts to influence not just thinking but also behavior.
• Inquiry: Purpose is to seek truth. Audience is towards oneself, friends, and colleagues. Situation is informal; a dialogue. Method is used for questions.
• Convincing: Purpose is to seek assent to a thesis. Audience is towards less intimate; wants careful reasoning. Situation is more formal; a monologue. Method is to make or develop a case.
• Persuading: Purpose is to seek action. Audience is for more broadly public, less academic. Situation is pressing need for a decision. The method used to appeal to reasoning and emotions.
• Mediating: Purpose is to seek consensus. Audience is polarized by differences. ituation is the need to cooperate, preserve relations. Method is “Give-and-take.”

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