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This 3 page paper uses the Rogerian method to argue the merits of an article that says it's ridiculous for students to expect their parents to pay for college. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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shows how a compromise that is satisfactory to both sides can be reached. This paper uses the Rogerian method to argue the merits of an article that says its ridiculous
for students to expect their parents to pay for college. Discussion The first step in this process is to articulate both positions fully, which means that we have to
start by understanding the article completely. The author, Audrey Rock-Richardson, states quite clearly that, with few exceptions, parents should not be expected to pay for their childrens college education.
She uses her own experience as an example, telling readers that by working and going to school at the same time, she got her degree without having to have
her parents pay one penny for it. She suggests that if she can do it, anyone can. But she further suggests that working and going to school is
no longer the norm: most students depend on their parents for their tuition. She says that when she told others that she worked rather than having her parents pay for
her schooling, they found it hard to believe, and this was upsetting for two reasons: first, it made her parents "sound like demons"; and second, it made it seem
as though Rock-Richardson was incapable of making her own way (Rock-Richardson, 2000, p. 23). It appears that she harbors some jealousy towards those students who won scholarships or
whose parents did pay for them, since she refers to them as "peers who had new Jeeps and expensive apartments" (Rock-Richardson, 2000, p. 22). She also complains about a
classmate whose parents were paying her tuition, "and for her to live in a sorority house (complete with a cook, I later found out). She was taking roughly 13
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