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Mengqi Ma
Ryan Myers
ESL 1080-005
February 4, 2020
Since the competition of employment is increasing in recent years, many people want to
get their master or doctoral degrees to get a better job. However, entering graduate school means
that there will be more and more tasks for study and research, so people must choose between
academic and relationships. As a result, many graduate students have to sacrifice their marriage
for academic reasons. According to the Why Does Graduate School Kill So Many Marriages,
Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel believes that seeking knowledge does not mean sacrificing
their relationship. She analyzed that those graduate students spent a lot of time in the laboratory
and ignored their own and family emotions. People should carefully consider this issue before
planning to enter graduate school, and graduate schools need to give students the necessary
reminders of what going to be happen about their relationships after their students get to graduate
program. In the original article, Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel discusses the fact of graduate
students lost their marriage at the beginning. She tries to figure out why this fact happened next.
Finally, she proposed solutions through his own experience and the opinions of others.
Wedemeyers-Strombel used genre, purpose, exigence, audience, visual design, and constraints to
provide a serious problem about relationships of graduate students. Therefore, the author used
the rhetorical tools well to make this article well-constructed and very convincing.
This article is an argumentative essay. As an argumentative, you need to find a topic and
discuss this topic, then give your own opinion. For that, Wedemeyers-Strombel firstly talks about
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she finds that more and more graduate student lost their marriage based on her own and her
colleagues’ experiences, which is one of the popular topics. Then she explains why this problem
happened. She believes that because graduate students spend a lot of energy when they are doing
graduate research, they easily ignore their relationship. In addition, pressure as a graduate student
and pressure from professors and graduate schools have also “depleted your emotional
reservoir”. At last, he provides some solutions to solve the issue. For example, you should
consider what suits you and your partner when choosing whether to enter graduate school. She
addressed the issues and steps clearly and perform them in the most understandable way to the
readers.
Wedemeyers-Strombel tries to remind those who want to enter the graduate school to
maintain their relationship; and the school needs to remind the students the consequences. For
those who have become graduate students, the author hopes that they could balance their
academic and relationships. The topic of this article is serious and sad. Many families are broken
because of graduate program. Therefore, it is very urgent for the author to write this article. She
believes that this article is important for those who are graduate students or doctoral students.
She hopes that those who read this article will have some insight or remind them to pay attention
to their relationship.
The intended audience of this article is graduate students who have relationship with
someone, graduate school, and some people who want to study in graduate school. As I
mentioned in the previous paragraphs, the purpose of this article is the author want to remind
graduate and doctoral students that their relationship could be in danger. Additionally, she
suggests graduate school should have a class, which can notice students what will be happening
after they entering the graduate school, like “welcome to grad school” orientation.
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She adds a photo at the beginning to attract readers. The author uses bullets when she
tries to give readers some solutions about how graduate students to notice their relationship
Those bullets make the article clear and understandable. There is also a capitalized T at the
beginning of the article, it reminds her readers the start of this article.
As the author said, her own marriage was also near collapse, so I don't think she could
maintain absolute objectivity when writing this article and may have some bias against graduate
school. A support quote will be, “When my own marriage nearly collapsed, graduate school was
a main factor.” No matter what, as long as it involves themselves, everyone will have some bias.
In a world, it is an argumentative essay. The author wants to remind people that they need
to be prepared with their partner when they want to study in graduate school. Her article’s main
audience are graduate students. She adds a photo and bullets to attract readers. However, she
may not be able to claim his points objectively. The article “Why Does Graduate School Kill So
Many Marriages?” is perfectly structured, and tall the support idea that Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-