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“Nature of Parties” Expository Process Essay In the essay “The Nature of Parties” author James J. Farrell thoroughly explains the average college student’s partying habits. He explores the leading factors to student partying, while explaining what he has learned from his college students who are presently familiar with the lifestyle. In the essay, Farrell is trying to understand the reasoning for why college is a time in every person’s life that partying is so vital. He states, “College as the student’s saw it was also about coming of age” it is where students begin to grow up and learn to make decisions on there own, and partying in turn helps them do that (Farrell 158). Farrell defines a party as a “social gathering for pleasure and amusement, and the college party is one of the oldest campus traditions, practiced and perfected for nearly the whole history of higher education” (159). In Farrell’s investigation of the college student’s lifestyle, he emphasizes why they party, when they party, where they party, how they party and the results of partying. This knowledge is crucial for parents, faculty, and administration to comprehend, in order to help them connect with today’s college students. Why do college students party? This is a question that researchers, parents, faculty and administration continually try to answer and understand. Perhaps they should have consulted with Farrell. He would have told them that fun is the primary reason student’s party, as “College is a time for fun because American adulthood decidedly isn’t” (Farrell 164). Farrell is attempting to explain that the fun you have in college is an experience that will not last forever. Fun is more central in the process of deciding which college to attend than the academic qualities the college has to offer. When you go and visit a college, you are mainly informed on all of the academic assets of the college, but what the upcoming college students are focused on is what
“Nature of Parties” Expository Process Essay In the essay “The Nature of Parties” author James J. Farrell thoroughly explains the average college student’s partying habits. He explores the leading factors to student partying, while explaining what he has learned from his college students who are presently familiar with the lifestyle. In the essay, Farrell is trying to understand the reasoning for why college is a time in every person’s life that partying is so vital. He states, “College as the student’s saw it was also about coming of age” it is where students begin to grow up and learn to make decisions on there own, and partying in turn helps them do that (Farrell 158). Farrell defines a party as a “social gathering for pleasure and amusement, and the college party is one of the oldest campus traditions, practiced and perfected for nearly the whole history of higher education” (159). In Farrell’s investigation of the college student’s lifestyle, he emphasizes why they party, when they party, where they party, how they party and the results of partying. This knowledge is crucial for parents, faculty, and administration to comprehend, in order to help them connect with today’s college students. Why do college students party? This is a question that researchers, parents, faculty and administration continually try to answer and understand. Perhaps they should have consulted with Farrell. He would have told them that fun is the primary reason student’s party, as “College is a time for fun because American adulthood decidedly isn’t” (Farrell 164). Farrell is attempting to explain that the fun you have in college is an experience that will not last forever. Fun is more central in the process of deciding which college to attend than the academic qualities the college has to offer. When you go and visit a college, you are mainly informed on all of the academic assets of the college, but what the upcoming college students are focused on is what
Cited: Farrell, James J. “The Nature of Parties.” The Nature of College. Minneapolis: Milkweed editions, 2010. 157-175. Print.