When comparing the writing styles used in a popular magazine and a research article, similar rhetorical strategies are often used in both styles even though they may vary due to the intended audience. Rhetorical strategies are utilized in both writing styles to organize, connect and allow the reader a simpler understanding of facts a writer is trying to allow the audience to understand in their argument.
The first piece reviewed is Paul Tough's "Who Gets To Graduate?" (2014), a popular magazine article that begins with what a young college student has to overcome to be the first in her family to attend and graduate from a University. The student, Vanessa Brewer is studying at the University of Texas and despite her high grades and test scores coming into college, she soon realized in her first semester that she may not have the skill set or what it takes to keep pursuing a degree. The article then begins to explain the university…show more content… Though this is more educational produced article, it speaks on almost the same topic of Tough's in a different perspective. The article begins with the sense of belonging first generation students have at a university being surrounded mainly by peers who come from homes with two parents with some type of degree due to their family's backgrounds. It has been found that due to this sense of feeling, first generation student on average have a lesser feeling of belonging in the situation they are in as well as having lower than average mental issues and limitations. Specific types of counseling are described and recorded to help improve first generation students sense of belonging and how to feel comfortable and proud of the progress they are making in their family as well as how they are bettering their personal
