The Dangerous Myth Of Grade Inflation Summary

In the literature entitled “The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation”, Kohn’s talks about a very old controversy is regarding to grade inflation. This argument resurfaced when people, including The former Harvard’s dean of the faculty, Henry Rosovsky, express their concern about a perceived surge of student receiving higher grades-point average in recent years. Their argument stems from the assumption that students of the recent generation couldn’t possibly get better grade than the preceding generation. They further questioned the academic capability of students of this generation to achieve leveled scores by conduction several research to support their claim. Many of those researches results were a compared pass generations’ grade point average this a recent generation’s grade in order to highlight the different in grade point average over a period of time. Kohn decided to provide a counterargument to put this aging
The main reason why his argument was extremely persuasive is because of the evidences. It was clear and easy to understand and related it to the overall controversy. Most, if not all of the audience would be satisfy with his explanation on why grade inflation doesn’t exist. All the information in his counterargument was appropriate for the audience. the statistic data in his evidence facilitate the comprehension of the comparison of the different time line. He put the main point at the end because he wanted readers to read the entire text in order to fully understand the controversy. Putting the main point in the concluding paragraph(es) is also a writing technique often used by authors. According to … this is better for readers to start reading article starting by the abstract or the conclusion. Perhaps, he was using this style of writing because he expected readers the skim thought the conclusion