毕业论文代写：TextualRhetorical Analysis of “The Educated Giant”

Education is astrong support for economic in long term. In the short article “The EducatedGiant” written by Nicholas D. Kristof in New York Times in 2007, the authorexpounded the economic situation between China and America. Since China’s tradesurplus with the United States soaring, the author gave his viewpoint aboutimproving America's economic power by boosting education instead of justreacting with tariffs and other barriers. As his family was made up of Chineseand American, he had the most actual experience about the different oneducation between those two cultures. In his article, he used ethos, examples,appropriate dictions, personal experience, comparisons between both cultures’education and historical data to build his argument and heighten hiscredibility on the idea that America should boosting education to help itseconomic progress.

Part of thespeaker’s appeal to reasoning comes from a more specific rhetoricalstrategy,like ethos.From the beginning of the text, the author tells us the economicand education in this era. Introducing the background of the times can makereaders understand the author's current background and circumstances, and helpto better grasp the author's creative thinking. With the limitations of thetimes, to narrow the scope of consideration of the problem. It is easier tohighlight the focus of their articles. In the current pattern of theintroduction of education, more contemporary, letting the reader empathy.Suchas the story about his daughter,the strong convinced examples to tell us whathappened in his real life. “Soon I was astonished to see an excited posting onmy blog from a woman who used to live in that village.”

The mostsignificant and most effective rhetorical strategies that the authorforth-putting in the article is the use of ethos or ethos principles, for thepurpose of appealing to the reader's· sense. Life likes white paper to depicttheir own. And everyone has their own experience to fill in the value of lifefiles. If you want to capture the attention of others, you may wish to talkabout their own personal experience. Tell your own experience is out of thereal emotions, it is also easy to cause the listener's sympathy, such as themost embarrassing things, the best memories, first met their partner scene. Andin this article, the author tell us the real story about his wife. “This areain southern Guangdong Province is my wife’s ancestral hometown. Sheryl’sgrandparents left villages here because they thought they could find betteropportunities for their children in “Meiguo” — “Beautiful country,” as the U.S.is called in Chinese. And they did. At Sheryl’s family reunions, you feelinadequate without a doctorate.” (2) Through these words, I learned that theauthor has the ability to talk about education between China and the UnitedStates, and it is extremely convincing. He is from the United States and hiswife is Chinese, in a family can be an in-depth discussion of education.Besides, these are topics that people are interested in cause these are notinteresting, enriched but real stories. And when talking about these topics,people can have fun. Their own special experience, after a period ofaccumulation, will form a unique thing. This unique general can attract theears of the audience, to meet people's psychological needs, and then to achievethe purpose of persuading each other.

The author alsouses “hungry”, “enormous”, “innately” as a powerful rhetorical tool in thearticle.By using the appropriate dictions,such as“First, Chinese students arehungry for education and advancement and work harder.” and“In contrast,Americans say in polls that the best students are the ones who are innately thesmartest.”,disticting a vividly scene or event.

The other exampleis about his daughter.The article is filled with the personal experiences, theauthor uses the rhetorical strategy of personal experience. “My kids’ schoolsystem doesn’t offer foreign languages until the seventh grade. These Chinesepeasants begin English studies in either first grade or third grade, dependingon the school.” The comparison is the comparison of the two categories of thesame or different things, to illustrate the method of describing thecharacteristics of Chinese students and the author’s daughter. In comparison,can be compared to similar, it can be compared to heterogeneous. Some abstractsare more familiar with things, you can use specific or something we familiarcompare with it, in order to help the reader through the comparison to get aspecific and distinctive impression of the characteristics of things, tendingto show up in the comparison. For comparison of this description method, it canbe better highlight the characteristics of the object being described. Andadding that “Frankly, my daughter got tired of being dragged around schools andhaving teachers look patronizingly at her schoolbooks and say, ‘Oh, we do thattwo grades younger.’” (3) making the article more credible.

In a lot ofdifferent places in the article, the author uses the rhetorical strategy of contrast.Kristof argues that “Chinese students are hungry for education…In contrast, U.Schildren average 900 hours a year in class and 1,023 in front of atelevision.”(4)This example vividly describes the situation of Chinese studentslove learning. And use the data comparison let me absolutely agree with hispoint of view and all of the other views the author makes.  UnlikeAmerica, Chinese students longing to study more to change the fatal, believingChinese students attach great importance on their career through the educationthey approach. And we clear that young students in China spending more timesitting in their classroom and do their homework even in summer or winterholiday. The attempt to compare two nations’ students about study time and the underlyingweakness that Americans’ students devoting less time in education. All of thesewere brought out by the controversial.

From thehistorical aspect,he also uses some traditional culture as a rhetoricalstrategy.Writing the article step by step, the author gives the second reasonis about the culture. China has a great cultural respect for education, is thepart of its Confucian heritage. What’s more the government and the family willbe resources into education. Thus, teachers are respected and compensated farmore than the United States in China, both economically and emotionally. “Thesecond reason is that China has an enormous cultural respect for education,part of its Confucian legacy, so governments and families alike pour resourcesinto education. Teachers are respected and compensated far better, financiallyand emotionally, in China than in America.”(5) From the history of China,people respect for knowledge, the hat is the internal cause of why Chinese hasa high-speed development in education. Furthermore, they prove that the Chinesebelieve that the best performers are the most diligent workers. In contrast,Americans say that in polls, the best students are those who are born thesmartest. The result is that Chinese children will not be willing to mediocreexcuse.

The author alsouses another experiences and reflections as a rhetorical strategy“After Ivisited Sheryl’s ancestral village, I posted a video of it on the Times Website. Soon I was astonished to see an excited posting on my blog from a womanwho used to live in that village.” And then a very interesting point is thatthe author of the following blog, a girl’s replying to the article doing a goodending. A girl through their own efforts changing herself from a small ordinarygirl from the countryside into a successful investor in Wall Street. Toemphasize the reader knowing the new face of Chinese education achievement andmightiness once again, enhanced the article readability. In the final littleups and downs, it is really true without losing the magic.

One of thesignificant rhetorical elements of this article that must be highlighted is hisexperience. This appeal to readers by using the brains, thinking the differentwith two nations. Knowing how the inner reason it is!

Every things havetwo sides.Of course, the education of Chinese still has some problems.” Chineseeducation has its own problems, including bribes and fees to get into goodschools, huge classes of 50 or 60 students, second-rate equipment, and lousyuniversities. But the progress in the last quarter-century is breathtaking.”(6)The author analyzes the problems from many angles and realizes thedisadvantages of Chinese education.

At the end of text“So let’s not respond to China’s surpluses by putting up trade barriers.Rather, let’s do as we did after the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik in 1957:raise our own education standards to meet the competition.”(7) Each new day forAmerica will bring wondrous enlightening experiences and no more will you haveto cower at the assaults. The theme of the author's sublimation is to solve theproblem. The author starts from the side, the fact example cited. With theChina and American cultural background, the origin of this problem, the use ofa variety of forms of expression, to complete such an article. In the analysisof the problem, alert Americans to pay attention to education, to occupy theworld.

To sum it, when wego through the article as a whole, we see that the author has effectivelycombined the use of emotional appeals with a logical argument. He establishesand uses his personal experience as a person who mixes Chinese and Americans’culture, especially his wife is a Guangdong woman in China. He has theauthority to discuss these issues. Intellectually learned from the relationshipand the root reason to build on positive aspects of the Chinese education.Meanwhile, the author is considering about future of education in the UnitedStates. He challenges those who were trying to intensify the controversy bycontrasting between the good and bad sides of even the controversial peoplelike the pastor. Together, these rhetorical strategies have made the article soeffective and convincing.

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NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, “The Educated Giant”,2007, pp. 1-7