TOW#13 The Lie About College Diversity

The topic of college is highly relevant in my life and the lives of my peers. There are many different factors that need to be taken into account when choosing the right school to go to, one of these factors is diversity of the staff and students. Colleges are using their diversity as a reason to convince student to attend. Frank Bruni, an author for the NY times for many years, believes this is a good thing although it is not carried out as it should be. Bruni believes that the student body being diverse is not enough, self segregation is still happening and the colleges must combat them in order for the diversity to be a good thing.

Bruni explains this opinion in his NY times article, The Lie About College Diversity. he uses devices such as rhetorical questions to achieve his purpose. Using these questions allows the audience, students looking to go to colleges and even their parents possibly helping in the process, to become more involved with the text. They stop for a moment and think of an answer before continuing to read which will make them come back to the text with a greater understanding and deeper curiosity. Bruni also uses has very interesting organization in this article. Many paragraphs are only a single sentence. This allows for emphasis on that statement. It’s broken up from the rest of the article so it stands alone to make its own point. These rhetorical devices helped me stay interested while reading. It put emphasis on how important these issues are, especially today. I believe this article achieved its purpose. I now understand that what i read about colleges is not always true. I also see that the issues of diversity are not as easily solved as it seems.