Brent Staples Rhetorical Analysis

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For anyone attending college the focused-on objective is to gradate and put their all-around earned degrees toward their motivation. In any case, imagine a scenario where, even facing the toughest assignments, despite how you believe your grade will manifest you manage to pull off the sought after passing grade. However, whether it was an 'A' for afford or a job well done, colleges are becoming less nit-picky and more reluctant toward the grades they award their students. Although receiving a 'get out of jail free card' would seem like the ideal college experience, Brent Staples protest, "Faced with demanding consumers and stiff competition, colleges have simply issued more and more As, stoking grade inflation and devaluing degrees" (Pg. 1065). Throughout the essay, Staples constantly uses appeal such as logos and ethos to …show more content…

The author's purpose is supported by explaining key issues of showering students with As. I believe that institutions should return to valuing the grading system so that those graduating can effectively utilize their earned degrees. Also, Staples asserts, "Individual professors inflate grades after consumer-conscious administrators hound them into it. Professors at every level inflate to escape negative evaluations by students, whose opinions now figure in tenure and promotion decisions" (Pg. 1065). At this point in the text, Staples talks the vulnerability of the teachers showcase to please students in order to satisfy their own needs. I find it quite ironic how teachers endure many years of schooling, only to prepare the future educators, nurses, and doctors to value their own salary and career opportunities. Additionally, with the student's opinions now being factored in toward promotion decisions, professors are now more lenient than ever to relinquish passing grades to all

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