College majors

     The article is "The Economic Guide to Picking a College Major" by Ben Casselman. This article talks about majors and the effect they have on the career and general wealth of students. This is in response to the occasion that numerous students going to college, and that the decisions they make will influence the rest of their lives. The audience is any and all people who are going to major in something in order to make a living. The purpose of this article is to inform future students to choose a major wisely since they may be better off not going to college if they can't get properly employed. 

    This article does make rhetorical appeals. The author primarily focuses on logos and mention numerous statistics. He tells wages, employment probability, and even probability of getting full time in their field. He makes some appeals to pathos by showing how some majors are terrible economic decisions and how many degrees just end in people getting underemployed and saddled with debt. The author does not make appeals to ethos in his article. He also does not use much figurative language or other such rhetorical devices in his article.