Students Are Already Workers Rhetorical Analysis

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Bousquet tries to persuade employers to stop taking advantage of their student workers as students feel they are being exploited in the academic labor community but they approach their employment from a stressed out student perspective. In “Students are already Workers”, Marc Bousquet effectively persuades his audience of college student employers through the use of evidence in his chapter through organization of ideas and examples with a direct tone making his points clear to his audience.
Bousquet uses evidence throughout his chapter, particularly using examples and descriptions of students and teachers to appeal to the student’s employers through pathos. The author used the strategy to give the students employers a real life example to show …show more content…
Bousquet used organization by putting a real world example from pages 134-139 and then backing up the example with cold hard facts for the rest of the chapter. This gives the audience a way to connect and draw emotions from sad and drawn out examples and then hit them with facts. Through his mastermind organization Bousquet is able to evoke both pathos and logos here and also touches into ethos. He used a real world example from 134-139 explaining the terrible work conditions and lifestyle choice students where left with from the use of personal stories and examples. Bousquet moves from pure example with a page break and a header to go into stating facts and rely on persuasive skills relating logos stating facts such as “80 percent of students work (Bousquet 140)” and including drop out rates and what happens to students due to the poor jobs and wages. By putting the example of the student and the teacher at the front part of the chapter he automatically engages the audience through a interesting personal story of a teacher loving a day of her life and showing her perspective on how the system works, while at the same time evoking pathos. Bousquet then uses a header to break up the text and starts stating factual evidence to support the example. This allows for the reader who is hooked into this chapter from the stat from evoking of pathos from the …show more content…
Bousquet does this by using great organizational skills and a word choice that shows a directed side to think while keeping it interesting and light to read while displaying crucial points. In order to do this, Bousquet uses re-securing words such as “security”, “escape” and “misleading” to set the direct tone while using simplistic word choice for a wide range of people to understand his points. While using word choice to show the direct tone he also shows it in the examples as that what is going on is wrong and need to be rethought or even possible change. Along with organization it only helps reinforce the tone directed to the employers’. The use of simplistic words with still the context behind them allows to him to write in a way many people will directly understand his thoughts and points. This allows for all kinds of employers to read and understand the points from technical skilled jobs to upper class student jobs such as mailroom or assistants. By keeping a simple word choice it also allows for a relatively easy read. With not that big or challenging words with in the text, the text can be easily read by almost anyone with basic proficiency in reading English. This also allows for all kinds of employers to fully understand what Bousquet is laying out for his argument by clearly showing and stating the
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