Professor Jerry Farber’s article “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System” has the intention of persuading college students that the current grading system is not effective by using rhetorical questions to imply its inefficiency, pathos to provoke the reader, and specific diction to help the article resonate with the audience; he even proposes a new grading system. Faber’s solution to the current grading system is to change it entirely, and, in place, have students receive credit or no credit for classes. In this system of grading, receiving a no credit would not have a penalty on the student’s record, but, instead, the records would only have classes where the student earned a credit making this different from the pass-fail grading system.
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Examples such as the boy working on his car endlessly (par. 5), surfing all summer (par. 6), and what it’d be like to be “graded on sex” (par. 9) are used to emotionally provoke the reader in the direction of a new grading system; pathos being the main motivation and drive in his article. Faber also uses slang and common language such as “bet your sweet ass” (par. 4), “turn me off” (par. 9), and “grade junkies” (par. 3) to appeal to the audience to read his article through because the purpose of his writing is not to trick them, but instead to allow them to see a better method of grading. The solution add-on helps to validate his argument to the audience further because it is not just empty complaints on the current grading system. All in all, Jerry Farber writes a critique on the current grading system to have it abolished and have a new one emplaced, and persuades college students to do so through provoking examples, rhetorical questions, and specific
Examples such as the boy working on his car endlessly (par. 5), surfing all summer (par. 6), and what it’d be like to be “graded on sex” (par. 9) are used to emotionally provoke the reader in the direction of a new grading system; pathos being the main motivation and drive in his article. Faber also uses slang and common language such as “bet your sweet ass” (par. 4), “turn me off” (par. 9), and “grade junkies” (par. 3) to appeal to the audience to read his article through because the purpose of his writing is not to trick them, but instead to allow them to see a better method of grading. The solution add-on helps to validate his argument to the audience further because it is not just empty complaints on the current grading system. All in all, Jerry Farber writes a critique on the current grading system to have it abolished and have a new one emplaced, and persuades college students to do so through provoking examples, rhetorical questions, and specific