Hess, Abigail. “How Student Debt Became a $1.6 Trillion Crisis.” CNBC, CNBC, 12 June 2020, www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/how-student-debt-became-a-1point6-trillion-crisis.html.
The main point of the article, “How Student Debt Became a $1.6 Trillion Crisis by Abigail Hess, is to inform how severe student debt is and how it is affecting over 44 million Americans to this day. The author brings up the 2008 economic recession, a period that increased four-year college degrees, and the economy dropped drastically. Additionally, the author includes the history of higher education from between 1890 to 1940 and how the cost of education for students increased throughout the years. Also included are data of people affected by this crisis, the intersectional impact, students who are affected, how COVID-19 was an impact of the crisis, and who to blame.
Best, Joel, and Eric Best. The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem. University of California Press, 2015.
Nuckols, William L, et al. “Was It Worth It? Using Student Loans to Finance a College Degree.” Higher Education Politics & Economics, vol. 6, no. 1, ser. 1-19, 2020. 1-19, www.ojed.org/index.php/hepe/article/view/1358.
A couple of things to think about as you revise and finish this annotation for your annotated bibliography:
1. This is not yet complete. See the Unit 2 guidelines for the all the sections you must include as part of your annotation. You need an evaluation, a rhetorical analysis, and quotations. If you look at the guidelines you will see exactly what is required and the template shows you how to format it.
2. You list information and data mentioned in the article –but what is the point the author makes with this information and data? And how does it all relate to you research question?
3. Are the other two citations? If so, are they all articles? Again, you’ll see in the guidelines that each source needs to be a different genre.