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Argument156 决战830拍砖组21日作业
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作者:寄托家园作文版普通用户 共用时间:29分58秒 481 words
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The following is taken from an advertisement placed in a weekly business magazine by the Dickens Academy.
'We distributed a survey to senior management at International Mega-Publishing, Inc. The result of the survey clearly indicates that many employees were well prepared in business knowledge and computer skills, but lacked interpersonal skills to interact gracefully with customers. International Mega-Publishing decided to improve customer satisfaction by sending their newly hired employees to our one-day seminars. Since taking advantage of our program, International Mega-Publishing has seen a sharp increase in sales, an indication that the number of their disgruntled customers has declined significantly. Your company should hire Dickens and let us turn every employee into an ambassador for your company.'
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In this advertisement, the author claims that it will be beneficial for a company to hire the DA (Dickens Academy), since the communication skills of the employees can be greatly improved through their training. It seems convincing at first glance; after all, the author does offer some relevant evidence. However, the argument suffers from a series of critical fallacies, which together make the author's conclusion not persuasive as it stands.(摸版很漂亮!)
In the first place, the result of the survey is open to doubt. The author fails to provide any evidence concerning the statistical reliability of the survey. It is much possible that the senior management at IMI (International Mega-Publishing, Inc) are not representative of the overall employees. Moreover, the author does not offer any information about the standard in the survey about how to judge an employee's interpersonal skills to interact gracefully with customers. Besides, it is DA who distributed the survey. The result may be not believable at all. Lacking such information, the author cannot rely on such a vague survey to draw any firm conclusion. 不错的论证... 向你学习这一段
In the second place, the author fails to establish the causal relationship between the one-day seminars of DA and the sharp increase in sales of IMI. On the one hand, the author fails to demonstrate that after the one-day seminars, the employees' communication skills have been sharply increased. On the other hand, there is no evidence that the increase in communication skills will necessarily lead to an increase in sales. There are much more key factors other than communication skills, sale of a company. It is entirely possible that the IMI has taken other strategies to improve their sales, such as to enhance the production advertising, to improve the new technology, or to employ some more experienced managers. Without ruling out such possibilities, the author fails to/cannot/ convince us that the seminar of DA is advantageous in increasing the sales of IMI. 因果错误你也掌握的很好了!
In the third place, the assumption(是主语?) that the seminar of DA is sufficient to make the customers of IMI more satisfied...(谓语宾语掉了?). The fact that the number of disgruntled customers of IMI has declined can lend rather little credible support to the assumption that the customers now feel more satisfied. It is much possible that these customers who are not satisfied with IMI have abandoned their service and chose another company. If so, the author cannot draw a persuasive conclusion from such a fact. (What is more, even granting that the costumers feel more satisfied, there is no evidence that it should be attributable to the DA’s efforts.)
Before I come to my conclusion, it is necessary for me to point out some other possible fallacies of the argument.(没时间就把这句省着点吧..呵呵) The author unfairly assumes that other companies also need such a seminars, thus commits a false analogy. It is possible that some of the companies do not need too many communication skills at all. (把上一句替换成Maybe some of the companies emphasized a lot on the communication skills of their employees, and then the stuff members they employed are already very skillful in communication. The author also overlooks the possibility that some of the companies do not need many communication skills at all.) (DA当然是针对需要它服务的企业来的, 你可以说granted that IMP benefited from...other companies do not need to follow suit for reasons that....然后列举,比如various economic situation...)
In sum, the author fails to address the weak areas mentioned above, which together undermine the conclusion. (In order to make the argument more convincing, the author should provide more information and take into consideration some other important factors for a company. )
OUTSTANDING!! 真的很不错了, 你之前有看题,列提纲吗, 你对自己的要求是30分钟写够500? 保持下去, ARG一定是满分,8.26,加油! |
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