Blog Post 1

By learning how to summarize the bigger bodies of work, you’re able to reflect on what you just read.  Not only that, you are also able to add your ideas, thoughts and emotions into what you read so when you look back at it, you’ll remember what you thought and felt.   It’s important to learn to think critically as a writer because it helps you grow as a writer; whether it is learning how to analyze the text you just read or reciting what the author meant by something, it helps you become a better writer. It’s important to become a writer as an individual in society because in a world where you have so many rules about you can say or do it’s good to be able to think for yourself.  Being able to view texts in different ways makes you a better writer; you can read someones three page paper or someone's tweet in 140 characters or less, but regardless of what type of style, you learn what the authors point is that they want to get across.  When we write tweets in class, sure we can only type so much but if you read everyone’s tweet, you’re able to see everyone’s viewpoint on a certain subject.

In the article “Should College Athletes be Paid? Why, They Already Are” by Seth Davis, Davis begins this contradicting article by disagreeing with a separate article that claims student athletes bring in money to colleges therefore they should be paid.  Davis on the other hand states, “Student-athletes earn free tuition, which over the course of four years can exceed $200,000” (Davis 299). , as well as including other expenses that are being paid for to help back up his claim that no, student athletes should not be paid.  Throughout Davis’ article he continues to mention all the cons that would go with paying students to participate in college sports such as how professional sports such as the NFL or NBA players have to be at least three years older than they are their senior year of highschool and saying “the fair market value for a freshman or sophomore in college is actually zero” (Davis 300) so why should they be paid? Davis then begins to say that not only should colleges not pay their athletes, but a good amount of colleges don’t even make very much money in the athletic programs to begin with so why would colleges pay students when most aren’t even bringing in money? He begins to wrap up his article by responding to a claim that stated “select young men are being exploited” by saying, “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday by giving them tuition, room and board at one of America’s finest universities” (Davis 302).  Throughout this article Davis brought up many points to why college athletes don’t need to be paid when they already are getting so much paid for them as well as he argues against those that feel colleges don't appreciate their athletes enough.



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