“Benefits of On-Campus Housing for Students.” West Texas A&M University: Residential Living. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. <http://www.wtamu.edu/student-life/benefits-of-on-campus-housing.aspx>.

The source Above is about Students living on campus and the things they can benefit from that most campuses offer. In the Article they are showing how staying on campus can improve grades, encourage students to participate in campus events, give students better opportunities at pursuing their careers, and provide them with a better chance of going to Grad School.  Also, the article explains how students interact with a more diverse population. Therefore, they become more open minded to different people, and that helps the individual grow.  I chose this source because it gave a different perspective on living on campus than I am used to seeing. The viewpoint of the author is shown because The whole article states that living on campus is beneficial and it doesn’t have anything to say about the drugs, violence, and bad influences that the student is going to encounter. This biased viewpoint is most likely trying to Help market Student housing for a particular college/ university; however, this position is important to my research because it shows how others may be affected by living on campus. The relationship that this source has with the other sources is that they all have an author with a different viewpoint on living on campus; However, isn’t a scholarly source, but it did come from a legitimate website.

Frost, Shelley. “The Disadvantages to Staying in Dorms.” The Disadvantages to Staying in Dorms. Demand Media. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. <http://education.seattlepi.com/disadvantages-staying-dorms-2614.html>.

Shelley Frost Entails the disadvantages to staying in Dorms In the Article “The disadvantages to staying in Dorms.” In the article, she gives specific details about how College dorms can distract the student and defeat the whole purpose of being on campus. She also states how the student doesn’t have enough privacy in as college dorm and that college dorms are cheating the student out of their money because they get a tiny space to live in, and they still have to leave during the breaks and can’t bring everything from home with them. Shelley frost’s article can help understand the rhetoric built environment with Atlanta because some students live in housing that is negatively affected by all the disadvantages They face due to the distractions, dorm limitations, campus restrictions, and constant pressure that campus housing puts on a student. I chose this source because it directly adds to the conversation about what are the pros and cons to students living on campus. The only flaws I can find in the article is that she doesn’t go over any of the benefits of living on campus but explicitly states that there are many.

The Source above is a popular source from neighborhoods.com that gives an analysis of the City of Atlanta and the negative things that are found in the cities exterior environment. The author shows how the buildings and architecture are beautiful; however, the exterior of Atlanta is full of everything that describes poverty. This article adds more to the conversation about living on campus due to people only consider how housing affects students and not the environment outside of the housing. According to the article, Living in some parts of Atalanta is living in poverty, and that has a huge effect on students that actually venture outside of their dorms (which everyone does). The only flaws I can find in this article is that It includes information I don’t need such as why people come to Atlanta and what the reasons are for staying in Atlanta. However, The author does a great job of describing the effects of the environment on the people that occupy it which is useful for my research and adds to the conversation.

The above article is an article from Atlanta magazine that entails the designs of the interior buildings and environment of Atlanta. It shows how the Architectural design In Atlanta is exquisite and elegant. The whole article is about how lots of buildings in Atlanta have superior designs. This article helps with the rhetoric environment argument that I am researching because it shows how the interior of buildings is misleading. They make people in it think they are in an upper-class location when they are living next to the homeless and next to poverty-stricken neighborhoods. This goes back to how students are affected because inside their beautiful buildings they feel safe, but when they step outside, they see what the real world looks like and many students aren’t used to this type of environment. All this affects the student because the beautiful interior distracts the student from where they are. This source relates to my other sources regarding the environment but doesn’t relate regarding the effects of not living on campus. Everything in the article is about interior environments and how it refers to the people that live in Atlanta.