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Edgar Aguilar-Lara

Professor Granillo

English 101

26 September 2018

How Do You Connect?

Every audience is intrigued differently either emotionally, factual, or logical and

whatever that reason would be, everyone has a breaking point and give into the author's

reasoning. Gabriela Moro uses various rhetorical devices such as ethos, logos, and pathos

throughout her article and connects her past experiences to make the reader capture her argument

of minority groups being the cause of segregation. Not only was she a minority student but she

was a minority at Notre Dame University, a predominantly “white” Campus. Despite being a

minority student part of her inspiration, her pursue towards a Neuroscience major… brought her

to become curious about the social ideals of minority groups at college campuses. With a mixture

of rhetorical devices, Moro is able to describe not only why these groups may be modern

segregation but, also show how they are necessary for minorities around campus.

Moros article is heavily in rhetorical devices and very clear in her ideals. To summarize,

Moros article describes how minority groups have a huge impact not only with minority students

but with all round students that become segregated into miniature groups. These groups have

been identified because everyone in these groups belong to a different culture. Moro response

about these groups by stating that they do in a way segregate each other by grouping them in the

first place which eventually leads to grouping minorities with minorities instead of creating

diversity groups and making colleges more broad with different cultures. On the other hand, she
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also states how minority are the ones who do the grouping in the first place and they do it

without knowingly doing so. Any person seeks to find those who they have in common

especially when introduced to a whole kewn environment such as a new college, well minorities

students naturally expand socially by seeking those who have the common attributes which in

college one's culture is the most common. Moro is able to introduce her article and make the

reader understand both sides of the coin by using a mixture of rhetorical devices, she uses a

mixture to gain as much audience as possible such as how she speaks in her article, everyone

looks for common ground and to some that common ground may vary. Moro uses ethos, logos,

and pathos since these three rhetorical devices gather a much broader audience making the

number of readers increase overall.

Although the author focuses different rhetorical devices for certain audiences, she bring a

strong set of logos, her advance research with different campuses. Logos is what mst audience

members fall under and in this article, the author works heavily with logos, a mixture of statistics

and facts to improve the authors ideas and reasoning.In Moro’s article, she uses logos, a form of

statistics and logical thought, to appeal to readers who need concrete evidence and so she

thought, what better than a primary source which in this case is the student minorities in college.

“I will use an article from the College Student Journal that distinguishes between two types of

students:one who believes minority clubs are essential for helping students stay connected…

others who think these groups segregate minorities” (Moro 270). From all studies she has

provided, I find this the one of the strongest for the reason being that it is straight from a college

source from the students by the students which is the best kind of studie you can recieve. The

quote also shows how Moro intentions were not just argue but to show the importance of
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listening to both sides of the argument both pros and cons. Moro also had her own experience

with these minority groups, being part of

Notre Dame and a minority. Listening to both sides of the arguments keep her point from being

biased and keeping things clear with the audience with informing them with the problem. With

the mixture of statistics and facts and other views from Logos affect a very common audience,

this makes keeping both sides of the story important because it explains the numbers and

numbers never lie

In addition, what Moro wants it to get as much audience and she can get, she relies on

ethos as well. Moro wants to help minorities students, she values the fact that students need to

interact and become more diverse, at Notre Dame she was a minorite and had first hand

experience and there was probably much like her who wanted to expand social outside her

culture but couldn't. Moro and researcher want the same thing and shows how valuable this is to

her by having the fact that there are researchers trying to figure out how to balance the two

ideals.“By examining multicultural organizations… researchers can suggest an ideal program to

optimal student experience”(Moro 276). The author values everyone’s ideals towards these

groups but wants everyone to be connected in a way to make minorities grow together.

She was a minority and knows how it feels to be confused and have a lonely feeling in college.

Her own experience lets her know how being with one's culture make you feel safe and able to

grow into one’s real self. Moro was a minority as well Throughout her article she shows

numerous forms of values as well but she also wants to connect to the readers emotionally where

everyone has had that experience. You expect to have most of the audience connected with these
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forms of rhetorical device but she still wants to branch out and gain more readers and the way

she does is is by taking one's emotion and using it to make you connect with her experience.

To add on, Moro use of pathos connects with the audience that is really difficult to reach,

as she wants a larger audience, she needed to appeal to every readers form of views. This is a

risky move moro does. She makes readers feel emotional about what the colleges want for their

students how institutions care more about the well being of their reputation educational wise

instead of their students emotional health and in fact she states in her article what colleges really

want. “Institutions… need to focus more on academic issues than diversity” (Moro 278). This

shows emotion to me because how would the colleges getting us ready care more about dumping

knowledge on their students instead of creating a new generation to become more diverse in this

growing country. There is some point though, college is not about making friends to an extent

because we are here as students to learn and better ourselves and only then can we better those

around us. Moro’s motivation was that yes diversity is a growing part for everyone but how

much is enough or minimum? What are the steps needed to have a perfect balance between

friendships and growing knowledge? Moro makes the reader think questions like such for the

reason being of how she finds a way to appeal to every reader.

To conclude, every reader has their own personal views of different ideals with logos,

pathos, and ethos and Moro is able to use all three to gain access with all kinds of reader to

increase her audience. Her ideals of having a balanced between minority groups and diversity is

made clear to either reader falling under emotional, logical, or ethical form. Not only does she
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use these devices but she also gives first hand experience as she herself was a minority student in

a “white” prejudice school. In the end her use of rhetorical devices makes her ideals be expressed

in ways everyone could connect to and in a form raise awareness of balancing these two out.

Works Cited

Gabriela Moro. Minority Student Clubs: Segregation or Integration. They Say I Say, 4E,

Norton, 2018, pp 270-278.