A) Discuss Any Instances of Nonargumentative Persuasion or Pseudoreasoning and Explain

question 56

Essay

A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
"[S]o frantic is the education industry for raw material (students), institutions are not only lowering standards (requiring only 'a pulse in one hand, a check in the other'), they are discounting tuitions and advertising sushi and waffle bars in the students unions and prime cable service in the dorms where, [author Anne] Matthews says, some students hibernate for days 'eating red licorice and channel surfing.' Some institutions send bounty hunters abroad in search of wealthy foreigners."
-George Will

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