Grades And Money Rhetorical Analysis
Cameron Sparks
Professor Holbrook
ENG 100.044
10 Sept. 2013
Summary of “Grades and Money” by Steven Vogel
When someone asks you why earning a higher grade in class is important to receive, your first response might be to help increase your grade point average (GPA). But why is a high GPA so coveted? Is it to get into a good post graduate school? But then why is this important? You would probably respond by saying to create more opportunities for yourself when it comes to a career to venture in. These are the questions that Steven Vogel dives into, and gets to the point that through all of these questions lead up to one underlying factor that grades are money and learning is what is paid for. He believes students will attempt to maximize …show more content…
With credibility (his job as a professor) considered, and also logical and emotional approaches throughout, you can see that Vogel is passionate about the topic at hand. Vogel uses very well described, and easy-to-follow examples and stories that intrigues you to “open your eyes” per say, and realize what exactly what your true motive is in school; is it to make yourself better and gain as much knowledge as possible, or is it just to simply stay afloat financially, and use the most minimal effort possible in receiving your appropriate grade. Although Vogel effectively makes his point, and delivers it in a way that college students like me can fully understand, there wasn’t a sufficient solution to this epidemic that he perceives is going on in this grading system world, which makes his position on this topic slightly less effective than what it could’ve been if he had provided an adequate solution. All in all, Vogel’s take on the relationship between grades and money is clear, cut, and very self-explanatory through reading. “We let grades count as money---we let education count as money---because money, nowadays, is the only value we
Professor Holbrook
ENG 100.044
10 Sept. 2013
Summary of “Grades and Money” by Steven Vogel
When someone asks you why earning a higher grade in class is important to receive, your first response might be to help increase your grade point average (GPA). But why is a high GPA so coveted? Is it to get into a good post graduate school? But then why is this important? You would probably respond by saying to create more opportunities for yourself when it comes to a career to venture in. These are the questions that Steven Vogel dives into, and gets to the point that through all of these questions lead up to one underlying factor that grades are money and learning is what is paid for. He believes students will attempt to maximize …show more content…
With credibility (his job as a professor) considered, and also logical and emotional approaches throughout, you can see that Vogel is passionate about the topic at hand. Vogel uses very well described, and easy-to-follow examples and stories that intrigues you to “open your eyes” per say, and realize what exactly what your true motive is in school; is it to make yourself better and gain as much knowledge as possible, or is it just to simply stay afloat financially, and use the most minimal effort possible in receiving your appropriate grade. Although Vogel effectively makes his point, and delivers it in a way that college students like me can fully understand, there wasn’t a sufficient solution to this epidemic that he perceives is going on in this grading system world, which makes his position on this topic slightly less effective than what it could’ve been if he had provided an adequate solution. All in all, Vogel’s take on the relationship between grades and money is clear, cut, and very self-explanatory through reading. “We let grades count as money---we let education count as money---because money, nowadays, is the only value we