Desperate Need Of A Liberal Arts Education Yoni Appelbaum Analysis

Jack Fisher
Professor David M. Hart
ENGL1010
26 March 2018
Persuasive Analysis
Lots of writers usually use different ways to persuade their audience. There are numerous factors that a writer would use to make the argument persuasive. In the article "Why America's Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education" by “Yoni Appelbaum”, gives reasons why business majors might have trouble understanding skills having to do with what comes out of a Liberal Arts degree. More business in the future will be looking for somebody with a liberal arts degree to run a company, and some graduates won't have the right skills to make a difference. The author concludes in the thesis "College students are wanting degrees that will help them secure

Appelbaum starts with a brief explanation said from an “executive director from a college (Samuelson), which she talks about businesses looking for someone who has earned a liberal arts degree to be eligible to manage as a CEO or head of business operations. Appelbaum gives different evidence from about four different people with facts on liberal arts becoming a big problem which is what the writer is concerned with. All the common facts explain why there should be more liberal arts study for anybody wanting a business degree. Appelbaum uses mostly other people's words with most of the facts concerning the problem/main idea making it source after source. He gives an example saying that “almost one in five bachelor’s degrees earned in the united states is a business degree

The facts in the article referring to “ethos” includes all the facts from the different people explaining the problem. The writer does not give much of his own view, but he includes views from these other writers. Erika Walker is part of the evidence that Appelbaum gives. “We’re trying to help them understand there may be so much more to a business education(Walker). This would be an example of ethos because the writer is using words from somebody else, but the person he’s using it from is giving her own thought to the