When reading this article I felt that it was lacking some rhetoric. Their defiantly needed to be more information on how students and teachers opinions and I really did not see any of the ethos or pathos, but I did see logos. There was some logic,but I felt they could have done a better job writing this article. The comments I saw really did not have much to do about the topic and it was people just arguing over random topics, which on an article like this is no place to do that.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Entry # 3 Class Cut
Being a college student is a lot of effort and is very time consuming. When picking colleges, I choose Glendale Community College for two reasons. One because the tuition at four year universities is ridiculously expensive and two because the class sizes are much smaller. With Arizona State University implementing their new shortened classes, with plenty of them to go around, it is causing a lot of controversy on both spectrum of opinions. The 15 week classes will now be shortened to only 7 1/2 week classes. This means the new abundance of these shortened classes will be fast passed and will be all the information of the 15 week classes. With this comes more change. The tuition will be cut for these classes and will now be more affordable and the calendar schedule will change drastically. While this idea of shorter classes and more of them is a good idea not only to save money, but also be able to finish your degree faster, they are setting the students up for disaster. Cramming these 15 week classes into 7 1/2 is bad enough, but having them be online is just the icing on the cake. Most students need the face to face hands on contact to be able to learn. I know certainly do, and with these new changes the students are going to be struggling more in these classes than regular ones.
When reading this article I felt that it was lacking some rhetoric. Their defiantly needed to be more information on how students and teachers opinions and I really did not see any of the ethos or pathos, but I did see logos. There was some logic,but I felt they could have done a better job writing this article. The comments I saw really did not have much to do about the topic and it was people just arguing over random topics, which on an article like this is no place to do that.
When reading this article I felt that it was lacking some rhetoric. Their defiantly needed to be more information on how students and teachers opinions and I really did not see any of the ethos or pathos, but I did see logos. There was some logic,but I felt they could have done a better job writing this article. The comments I saw really did not have much to do about the topic and it was people just arguing over random topics, which on an article like this is no place to do that.
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Hi Alexandria,
ReplyDeleteI agree with the shorter classes being good and bad, depending on the person and their responsibility. I also think that it's great to have the option of finishing one's degree faster and that certainly a 15 week course is quite a bit longer than a 7.5 week class, so many could benefit from this change. I as well as you though, see myself as more of a face-to-face learner and I think that a faster pace for learning might be difficult, especially if online. I was also expecting more of the comments to be serious and on topic with the article, as it is on a topic that could be of much interest to many. It was a little disappointing to not get very much feedback, possibly to compare opinions with.