Your school has decided to devote a sum of money to increasing student retention. Two proposals have been made: One is to create student jobs in which any student who wants an on-campus job will be hired and trained. The other is to increase the number of hybrid courses in which the student has to physically attend class only one day per week and completes the second day’s work in on-line assignments and discussion groups. Write a letter to the president of the school in which you urge him to support one of these two proposals.
Note: A hybrid class is a combination between a traditional face-to-face class and an on-line distance education class. You come to class once a week; you do your work on-line once a week. The face-to-face classes can be smaller because half the students are working at home.
Follow the two suggestions below to take it to the next level.
Taking it to the next level:
1. There is research that suggests that a key factor in student retention is students’ feeling of connection to the campus, both to faculty and to other students. Find a way to use that information to support your argument.
2. Find a way to use the counterargument structure. Here are some starters.
The proposal to ______________ might seem like a good way to ______________. However,
Although the proposal to ________________ would (do something good), it would actually ______________.
Despite the benefits of the proposal to ___________, it would benefit a smaller number of students than the proposal to ____________,
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