argument44 交作业了(hand-in-hand)

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TOPIC：ARGUMENT 44 - The following is a recommendation from the  
business manager of Monarch Books.

"Monarch Books should open a café in its store to attract more  
customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened  
a café. Monarch, which has been in business at the same location for  
more than twenty years, has a large customer following because it is  
known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Opening the café  
would clearly attract more customers. The café would require relatively  
little space. Space could be made for the café by discontinuing the  
children's book section, which will likely become less popular given that  
the last national census indicated a significant decline in the percent of  
the population who are under age ten.

提纲
1。没有说明为什么开cafe能够吸引更多的顾客？
2。当地的儿童不一定减少
3。 尽管当地儿童减少，关闭儿童部分甚至可以降低顾客来源。

In the recommendation, the manager adovocate building up a cafe by  
discontiuing the children's book section, which could attract more  
customers, as he claims. This argument seems very cogent ostensibly,  
but an in-depth view would uncover its vulterabilities.

To begin with, the manager fails to provide more solid reasons why  
opening a cafe could attract more customers. Do the local people are  
fond of drinking coffee?  just because the business opponent, Regal  
Books opens a cafe then Monarch Books have to establish one? It is  
ridiculous.  What is more, the arguer fails to weighing the cost of building  
a cafe over the potential profit increment incurred by more customers.  
Without any more investigation into a cafe shop and more customers, the  
recommendation is hardly believable.

Another flaw of the recommendation has to do with the consensus. The  
national consensus, which indicates a significant decline of children  
nationwide, does not necessarily result in the reduction of the local  
children's population.

Even granted that the number of local children is decreasing, we still have  
very good reason to doubt the adequacy of discontinuing the children's  
section of the bookstore. As the manager has mentioned, the Monarch  
Books is famous for its wide selection on all subjects. However, removing  
the children's section would greatly ruin the book store's reputation and  
even worse, render the local residents a utilitarian image of the book  
store. Consequently, the customer would be decreasing rather than  
increasing.

In short, this argument is unsolid from the foregoing discussions. To make  
it more persuasive, the arguer ought to provide more evidence that the  
cafe could incur more customers, and carefully weight the cost of setting  
a cafe with the potential increment of the profit. Besides, the manager  
needs to investigate the local children's and customers' ideas before  
removing the children's section.

写得太少了啊。。。。:L:L