Comparative Rhetorical Analysis: Economic Inequality

Comparative Rhetorical Analysis Economic inequality is more relevant than ever. Smart kids are not able to get the education they deserve simply because of their parents income. High school students that live in a poor area don’t have quality public schools to go to, while the kids in a wealthy area have better schools. This inequality is seen in college as a huge problem because kids who are geniuses cant go to college due to them not being able to afford it. Two authors of two different articles discuss these issues, which are “Why Education Is Not an Economic Panacea” by John Marsh and “For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall” by Jason DeParle. Both Authors attempt to persuade his audience, but one is more successful than the other. Jason DeParle is more effective in accomplishing his persuasive purpose of making the reader believe economic gap is growing due to him using more evidence to support his point, discussing where the beginning of economic inequality starts, and having a heart breaking college story that people can relate to more. John Marsh does not use much evidence to support his purpose. He uses his Odyssey Project to go off of most of the article. While this evidence is useful, evidence besides this
DeParle describes the experience of a college drop out due to money and two lives of other struggling college kids because of their economic status. Also multiple facts such as “Professor Reardon, the Stanford sociologist, examined a dozen reading and math tests dating back 25 years and found that the gap in scores of high- and low-income students has grown by 40 percent, even as the difference between blacks and whites has narrowed.” (DeParle) This fact supports DeParle’s argument towards the growing gap. Therefore with more examples and facts, the evidence provided by DeParle support his point more than Marsh supports his with his