Lowering Itself To Discrimination By Linda Chavez

Linda Chavez is a prominent Hispanic-American conservative Political Columnist. She has written many political columns over the years, using her personal experiences and political expertise to develop a rapport with her readers. Ms. Chavez utilizes several sound writing techniques to engage the reader. She employs factual evidence, appeals to logic and appeals to emotion. In many of Ms. Chavez's columns, she exploits useful evidence to help us understand the point she is trying to get across. In the article entitled Higher Education is Lowering Itself to Discrimination, she uses statistics to provide the reader with tangible evidence. For example she states, "The odds favoring black undergraduate admittees over whites with the same