Sponsorship Appeal

Sponsorship Appeal

rompt: Lamar’s Financial Aid Department has declined your application for scholarship for next year, citing a drop in your course grades, your carrying less than the required number of college credits, and receipt of unacceptable attendance and quality of work reports from two of your instructors. Write a letter to the Director of Lamar Financial Aid arguing for the renewal of your scholarship. You will need an introductory paragraph, a paragraph or more acknowledging your poor performance, two or more body paragraphs stating valid arguments for reinstatement, and a concluding paragraph.

This letter must exemplify the major points of argumentation found in chapter 9, LBH: one of the forms of reasoning, stating a claim, using evidence, creating ethos, disputing any opposing views.

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Success in education largely hinges upon the effort the student puts towards attaining the required credit scores. However, attaining the scores is not always an easy task. The student often faces challenges in the course of the study, some from within the school and others from external pressure from the society. Only the students who are able to conquer such challenges manage to make it out of college a happy lot. Students dependent on financial aid often have a larger challenge than those that are able to sponsor themselves through college education. The students have to, not only provide impressive grades for their parents, but also work towards ensuring that they sustain the high performance for purposes of maintaining the financial support. I fall into the latter group and not happy to acknowledge my poor performance in the last academic year…………

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