Cody Webster

1. Rojstaczer, Stuart. "Grade Inflation Gone Wild." The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2009. Web. 09 Oct. 2012. <http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0324/p09s02-coop.html>. 2. Newspaper: Christian Science Monitor 3. 4. Stuart Rojstaczer is the author. Was a professor of geophysics at Duke University. Also the author of “Gone for Good: Tales of University Life After the Golden Age” and the creator of gradeinflation.com 5. The author isn’t an expert on this topic. 6. The writer’s purpose is to inform people about grade inflation and what harm it can cause to society. More students are spending their time drinking instead of studying, which worries Rojstaczer because he fears this will cause a poorly educated generation. 7. 8. The author is addressing other University staff members. I can tell this because of the way he writes. Rojstaczer states, “Our college classrooms are filled with students who do not prepare for class.” He is clearly trying to inform other professors. 9. The author claims that Grades are going up, the grading changes are impacting college life and learning, and school officials must admit to the problem and then create guidelines. 10. “Those guidelines have worked. Grades are going back down at Princeton and academic rigor is making a comeback.” “A recent survey of more than 30,000 first year students across the country showed that nearly half were spending more hours drinking than they were studying.” “At elite Brown University, two-thirds of all letter grades given are now A's.” “At about the same time that I started to collect data on rising grades, Princeton University began to actually do something about its grade-inflation problem. Its guidelines have the effect of now limiting A's on average to 35 percent of students in a