Harrell - Redo of $20,000

Summary Response Outline

Summary:

• Topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, main idea “What Could You Do With $20,000”, by Blake Boles proposes that people could save the money that they would spend on college and spend it in other ways that would later benefit their future career.
• Supporting ideas and explanations to prove main ideas Boles illustrates this by creating a made-up scenario, where he has $20,000 and lists multiple ideas people could spend the money on.
• Ideas attributed back to author
• Concluding sentence: restate  title, author, strong verb, main idea“What Could You Do With $20,000”, by Blake Boles suggests that would be spent on college can be more helpful when devoted to other opportunities.

Response:

• Topic sentence: title, author,,correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays___(Main Idea)________ because ___________ . “What Could You Do With $20,000”, by Blake Boles correctly portrays that if students are going to study certain professions in college it is a waste of money because you end up being overqualified and unvalued.
• Claim 1:
• Set-ups In Bowles's video, Boles suggests that in many professions attending 4 year college ends up costing thousands of dollars but doesn’t get students anything.
• Evidence: Lead-in,  “ quotation” (Shakespeare 1.2.13-17). Boles states, ”Many end up overqualified and underemployed saddled with a bachelor's degree that you can't do anything with, and student loan debt that you have to pay off immediately.(Boles)”
• Explanation of quotation to prove claim: explain quote, connect to claim This shows that having a college degree now a days costs a lot of money and does not guarantee that students are going to have a better job than those who did not attend college. If there are no benefits from the degree than there is no point to get it.
• Counterclaim 1: However, .... Boles over looked many and almost all of the benefits of going to college.
• Set-up Many studies show that going to college gets people higher paying jobs which will in turn will get rid of student loans faster.
• Evidence: Lead-in,  “ quotation” (       ) PayScale.com that the highest paying job wth an associates degree average is $57,000 dollars while the average for the bachelors degree is $63,000 (Payscale.com).
• Explanation of quotation to prove counterclaim: explain quote, connect to claim This shows that people who go to college longer and get a higher degree get benefits from the degree like more pay and they are more likely to be employed
• What are the strengths/ flaws of this argument? (use rebuttal progression language) A common view is that if students get a bachelor's degree or higher they are guaranteed a job. This position seems reasonable because it should be that way, the longer students go to college and the more qualified they are the higher chance they have to get a good, decent paying jobs. However since so many people are getting bachelor's degrees that title/ degree is becoming devalued.  A bachelor's is what a high school diploma used to be," suggests Caryn McTighe Musil of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Because it is being devalued it does not create as many high paying job opportunities as it used to.

Concluding sentence: restate title, author,,correctly portrays/ incorrectly portrays___(Main Idea)________ because ___________ .  “What Could You Do With $20,000”, by Blake Boles correctly portrays that college is not for everybody and in some cases there are better ways to spend your money.