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Ethos Pathos Logos By Brent Staples Summary

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In the text, it is about why colleges and/or professors seem to give out A’s to students. It could also cause the value of grades inflate. Staples explains what seems to be the problem as well as showing what could be a solution. Staples wants reader to understand colleges are starting to be devalued. He goes on to emphasize why the colleges/professors feel forced to give in and give students A’s, why it will not change. In his text, he uses multiple styles of writing to show the readers what is happening to colleges. The main styles he uses is Pathos, Logos, and Ethos.
Pathos is a style that seeks out to evoke the readers emotional to gain approval. One example is teachers tend to give A’s to please the consumers. He talks about the way students tend to force professors in giving good grade to stay away from getting a bad review. In turn, they could lose their jobs. This mainly effects the adjunct teachers because they don’t have any job security. Even administrators seem to push for A’s. At one point he said, “An Ivy …show more content…

Early on, Staples said that grade averages have went from C’s to basically B+’s within the last ten years. He even look at an article that was published by two professors saying that students basically threatened them to change increase their grades otherwise, they will go and report them. He even goes on to say “the University of Phoenix offers such a superficial curriculum that they compare it to a drive through restaurant” (936). Due to this, many schools have been closed down since they can’t compete. Back then students took what they got and moved on. These days students seem to think that if they don’t have the highest grade they won’t be able to get the job of their choice. He also stated that a stats professor got flak for proposing a new system to recalculate the grade point averages. This proposal made it seem that students would dodge the harder classes to take easier

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