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1 5-4 Milestone One: First Draft of Critical Analysis Essay Daniel Price Southern New Hampshire University ENG-122-Q2074 English Composition I 20EW2 Catie Jarvis 11/25/20

2 5-4 Milestone One: First Draft of Critical Analysis Essay The article “Some Lessons From The Assembly Line” written by Andrew Braaskma documents the author’s experience of working 12 hour shifts in a factory and how he comes to realize the importance of a college education. He compares the working environment of a bluecollar factory worker to that of the luxury setting that college students are afforded at a college campus. Andrew Braaksma talks about the advantages of earning a college degree and the opportunities it affords, while simultaneously appreciating his own college experience through the eye-opening and labor-intensive factory assembly line he worked during his summer breaks and holidays from college. The author details what his future may look like without the education he is lucky to receive and also that a college degree will ensure better career opportunities for him to earn a better living as oppose to the small paycheck he received from factory work. While the advantages of a college education are highly implied, Andrew Braaksma’s purpose and claim to his article is about his own life lessons of his everyday bluecollar working experience that have taught him about hard labor, but most importantly have taught him to change his approach to his college education to ensure he has a better future. Andrew Braaksma stated in this article, “After working 12-hour shifts in a factory, the other options have become brutally clear. When I’m back at university, skipping classes and turning in lazy re-writes seems like a cop out after seeing what I would be doing without school. All the public-service announcements about the value of an education that used to sound so trite now ring true” (Braaksma, 2005). The author is describing his previous approach to his education prior to experiencing the hard work of factory life and how, in comparison to it, an education is important to a brighter future. He is trying to reach his college peers in a way that

3 helps paint a vivid picture that an education is important and to put in the effort to receive your degree because the options in the workforce without it are very different. According to Braaksma, blue-collar work has ultimately given him a glimpse into what real-world work would look like due to experiencing those long 12-hour days. The path to college had always been very clear with options available to him to further his education (Braaksma, 2005, para. 7). The authors main point of the article is the importance of education and how he came to that realization based on his factory work experience. Braaksma writes “The things that factory work has taught me--how lucky I am to get an education, how to work hard, how easy it is to lose that work once you have it—are by no means earth-shattering. Everyone has to come to grips with them at some point. How and when I learned these lessons, however, has inspired me to make the most of my college years before I enter the real world for good. Until then, the summer months I spend in the factories will be long, tiring, and every bit as educational as a French lit class” (Braaksma, 2005). Only one’s self can truly decide how important an education will be to them. They must decide what to do next with that choice and Andrew Braaksma realized the importance of his education based on his personal experiences. Braaksma through the lessons he learned displays maturity with his decision to focus on his education while continuing to gain valuable experience working in the factory in the summer (Braaksma, 2005, para. 9). In conclusion, the authors claim is to help his readers understand the experiences he went through working in a factory 12 hours a day and how those valuable lessons learned helped shape his new approach that his education is important and that he will be making the most of it before heading back into real world work. He wants his readers to see the eye-opening experiences and hardships of a blue-collar working life and how he intends to use those

4 experiences to motivate him to focus on his education for the remainder of his college life. He ultimately appeals to his audience to appreciate the opportunity to receive a college education because working life without one is a very different prospect. At times we can take text at face value, but critical thinking has allowed me to digest each component of my selected article and identify its strengths, weaknesses, and break down the text to improve my ability to comprehend the authors claim and use those skills to find key points and ask questions. I have received some great feedback and revision and editing my work is something I am going to be more focused on throughout the remainder of my college education and beyond. References: Braaksma, A. (2005). Some Lessons From The Assembly Line. Newsweek, 11....