這一段作者引用了三個退役將軍StanleyMcChrystal， JohnBridgeland 和Alan Khazei對志愿活動的支持，從理性角度讓讀者更信服公共服務號召的合理性。
“We’ve aremarkable opportunity now,” McChrystal says, “to move with the American people away from an easy citizenship that does not ask something from every American yet asks a lot from a tiny few.” We do, indeed, owe something to our country,and we owe an enormous debt to those who have done tour after tour in Iraq and Afghanistan.
作者使用來自McChrystal的權威引言(expert quotes)進一步闡釋了為什么美國民眾需要志愿活動，權威的話增加了論證的可信度。
同時本段還采用了重復(repetition)這一修辭手法，連用二個“owe” 更有力度的指出了我們對國家的虧欠。
McChrystalsees universal service as transformative. “It will change how we think about America and how we think about ourselves,” he says. And as a former leader ofan all-volunteer Army, he scoffs at the idea that giving young Americans astipend while they serve amounts to “paid volunteerism,” the phrase typicallyinvoked by critics of service programs. “If you try to rely on unpaid volunteerism,” he said, “then you limit the people who can do it. . . . I’d like the people from Scarsdale to be paid the same as the people from EastL.A.”
作者使用來自McChrystal的權威引言(expert quotes)來強調這一服務的意義菲方，權威的話增加了論證的可信度。使用“transformative”(改革)而不是“change”，這個措辭強調了這一服務的重大意義。
There are real challenges here. Creating the estimated 1 million service slots requiredto make the prospect of service truly universal will take money, from government and private philanthropy. Service, as McChrystal says, cannot just be a nice thing that well-off kids do when they get out of college. It has to draw in the least advantaged young Americans. In the process, it could open new avenues for social mobility, something the military has done for so many in the past.
作者使用數據論據(statistics)來說明公共服務所面臨的一些挑戰。
Who knows whether the universal expectation of service would change the country as muchas McChrystal hopes. But we have precious few institutions reminding us to join the Founders in pledging something to each other. We could begin by debating this proposal in a way that frees us from the poisonous assumption that even an idea involving service to others must be part of some hidden political agenda.The agenda here is entirely open. It’s based on the belief that certain unalienable rights entail certain unavoidable responsibilities.
作者在結尾段用了一系列諸如“poisonous”， “hidden”， “entirelyopen”， “unavoidable”和 “unalienable”這樣的詞匯來訴諸于情感(pathos)，喚起讀者心里的強烈責任感。
總的來說，這篇文章選題比較符合新SAT的似乎和風格，行文觀點立場鮮明，沒有用很復雜的、很抽象的概念，風格親切平易，分析性寫作難度不大。文章的主題是 “young citizens should do more public services”, 作者采用多種方法來支持自己的主旨，其中最為顯著的是權威引言，措辭和訴諸于德。
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