I Could Graduate College Debt Free!

In this informational book "The Graduate Survival Guide," written Anthony Oneal with Rachel Cruze and foreword by Dave Ramsey, educates readers about possible chances of graduating college debt free. The Authors develop their claims by having college graduates who have first hand experience with debt from college. The purpose this guide is to educate future college students and to decrease the number of students in debt, in the future. The intended audience of the book are high school graduates and college students.

Reading this guide gave all of us a real idealistic insight on how to not have student debt. We hear many people say that students loans are to help you more than they will break you. But that's only for the stage in life that we're in now because we're college students. What about when we graduate? We believe that that's what made the book a perfect book. It discussed the ups and downs while in college and then when your done with college. Nothing was sugar coated. The stories were real and rather they had a bad outcome or good outcome, each of us has a similar future ahead of us as well.

The authors appeals to pathos by having college graduates or students, share their experiences through out college with student loans. One college student says ,"I could barely afford to pay my bills and make the minimum payments on my loans. An unfortunate series of events, including my students loans, forced me to make uncomfortable decision to move back home."(Page 22) This appeals to the reader mainly because the target audience reading this are college students and high school students. We have these big dreams of college, and not being able to pay the debt, forcing us to move back home, is a nightmare. It's something we are sensitive to because we don't want to end up like that. Leaning towards the brighter side of an emotional connection would be when the other college graduate explains they graduated college debt free. They said, "I wanted to graduate college debt-free, so with every side-gig and summer job I saved 90% of paycheck and keeping only 10% for spending money. I applied for more than fifty scholarships and was awarded a handful of those, which covered a huge chunk of my tuition."(Page 13) This graduate disciplined themselves to work hard, and was smart about the way they spent and saved their money. It appeals to the readers sense of hope that, they to can be disciplined and save money.

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