Janet Hulstrands makes rhetorical choices in her article, “Time Out: The Gap Year Abroad”, to explain why the trend of taking a gap year is beneficial to students. Hulstrand secures her argument by targeting the reader’s emotions, bringing in personal experiences from outside sources, as well as credible evidence to support her argument. Her tactic to convince the reader to look at gap years as a positive thing includes rhetorical devices that support her point.
The author begins by targeting the readers emotions, she explains that most people are in need of some self discovery after high school. She says that a gap year is a great way to build a person's maturity. This is something that students often feel they need more of out of high school,
