Homework but don't really know what number it is! :)

I chose to talk about the essay proposed to Michael Crow about electronic textbooks. I agree to the first proposal of this paper saying that ASU should offer an electronic option for books. But I disagree with the giving every student an iPad or tablet at the cost of raising tuition or charging the student. Seeing that this article was written in March of 2012 you can tell a lot can happen in a summer.  As of August 2012 ASU offered an electronic version of textbook. I am not sure if this is true for everyone but it was true for all 5 of my classes.  For his first argument there was enough support and evidence but for his second I don’t think I could offer any help on the account of I was not a student when this was written. But for his second proposal I would suggest researching why Arizona Christian University can offer free iPad.  I can think of one good reason; they are a private school and ASU is public and private schools receive more money to offset some of their cost to running an institution.  He does appeal to the audience which is the president of ASU. I think he was trying to use sympathy to appeal to Dr. Crow and how he should want every student to succeed.  I would rate this author’s ethos pretty poorly on the mere fact that the essay seemed to lack emotion and appeal it was basically words flowing out of his mouth.  I think he started strong but then went off into a tangent on how to get iPads for everyone. This leads me to say this essay is not a good model for a proposal essay. A proposal is supposed to fix a problem. In his paper the problem is cost. He offered two solutions; one offer electronic textbooks and two give everybody iPads or tablet.  But with that second solution because it is not possibly attainable he state to either raise tuition or to charge student’s accounts. This is defeating the purpose of his first solution to lower cost but now he want to charge for something ASU should be giving. A gift is a gift and it should impose no fee to the receiver but in this case it does.  This essay uses some research but not much I think most of the examples are from opinion and do not offer much evidence. I think since this proposal has to do with cost he could use more statistical examples to help the reader understand where he is coming from.