Un Believeable
In "Confessions of a Recovering Admissions Officer", Rachel Tools is trying to convince the readers that honestly means more then lying to impress someone. Tool’s very persuasive in the article because she has been around applications that are fraud. She gives a first hand experience of having a fraud application sent to her. She discusses how she felt emotionally about the fraud application. This helps the audience realize what her job is like and what she deals with when students are dishonest. The moral of this article is to convince people that lying not only hurts the person but can hurt others as well.
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I agree with the statement you made stating that "the moral of this article is to convice people that lying not only hurts the person but can hurt others as well." The reason I agree is because I can relate that statement to my friendships and relationship. If I am told something by someone I have a relation or friendship with and I beleive it, only to find out later that it was a lie I am going to be skeptic of everything else that person tells me. I will also be skeptic about anything I was told in the past, pertaining to all my freindships and relationships new and old.
i believe that lying to get into college is different than lying to a friend or someone you date. If you really put down what your life is really like some colleges might not accept you. But lying to your friend is a more serious case
I disagree with the statement that you made about Tool’s purpose for writing the article. After determining the audience in which she had in mind, I concluded that she was trying to convince the admissions officers that they should change the essay topics on admission applications because applying students are being deprived of a chance to express themselves truthfully. The majority of colleges present their application-essays in a traditional-question format; this prepares applicants for these essay types and therefore, knowing what admissions officers want to hear, the applicants lie their way into college while others applicants are rejected, despite their efforts and honesty. The methods in which Tool used to convince her audience were terrible. Instead of appealing to ethos, Tool should have tried to appeal to the audience’s emotions, opinions, feelings, or at least something of the audiences. By only revealing her experiences and opinions, Tool seems not to have a specific audience.
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