Colleges Have A Guy Problem By Derek Thompson

Hailey Girsch

Rottink

ENG 106

3 February 2023

Text “Colleges Have a Guy Problem” is a digital article written by Derek Thomposon. He created this text to communicate a story through a document. He used many resources and lots of information to type a story that gave accurate information. In order to decipher this text, you must focus and read it to comprehend what he is informing you.

Author

Derek Thompson is 36 years of age. He was born on May 18th, 1989. He is currently unmarried and focused on his schooling. He attended school at Northwestern University and The Potomac School. Thompson is a blogger at TheAtlantic.com and is the staff editor for the business channel. Thompson’s writing focuses on the media industry, economic policies,

He created this to somewhat persuade people to go the other direction with certain statistics, such as the fertility rate decreasing. This article explains his point of view and others perspectives on this issue. This article allows us to understand the reasoning for both his perspective and the people who do not go to college.

Setting/Exigence

This article was created in September of 2021. This article talks a lot about the future and how this can affect things if it happens long enough. Thompson made this article for communities of students on college campuses and possible high school students.

They Say/I Say In the article “Colleges Have a Guy Problem”, there are a lot of they say/I say statements. He uses a lot of other data and information to back up what he is saying. Thompson says, “The story I prefer begins with the economy” (Thompson pg. 4). He then goes on explaining his reasons on why people should go to college. This is an I say statement. It is his original statement that is backed up by facts and statistics to make it true. A they say example from this article would deal with divorces, rising death, and job loss. He uses this statement because he agrees with what Kathryn Edin had