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129) College students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Thanks to the inevitable globalization, fierce competition among graduates all over the world has forced many high school students with inferior economic background to choose their major of study based on job prospect four years later. Besides, in my opinion, students who are financially well supported should still focus on their own interest when making the decision on which field to study in university, because job market is hardly predictable after four or five years and PERSONAL interestS plays a more vital role in the society nowadays.

For students with comparatively poor economic backgrounds, a job-oriented field would be more desirable for them. The low-born students might carry heavy loans and do part-time jobs when they are studying at the university. After graduation, the primary goal for them would be achieving the economic independence by clear all the debts, or which would prevent them from pursuing greater goals. If they could find a well-paid job soon after graduation, it would be desirable for them to relieve the burden and encouraged to pursue their new life.

Despite the poor backgrounds, it would be beneficial for students in the long term to choose their major based on their personal interest. With the help of interests, students are more likely to get academic success in their university life. As we know, nowadays, information is exploding in an exponential pattern, which means every university student has much more knowledge to learn compared with ones decades ago. Without interest, it would be boring and torturing to absorb all the information.

In addition, more innovative corporations requires their employees to work with creativity, which is base on personal interest. Take the famous innovating company Google as an example. Google is famous for its "20 percent program". The program allows its employees to spend 20 percent of their time on their private projects, which are based on their personal interest. As a result, many famous products such as G-mail and Google earth comes into being without official settings. In those companies,PERSONAL interest might be more valuable than the diploma paper.

In conclusion, students with relatively poor economic background should choose their field based on the availability of job in the field, due to their urgent need to clear personal debts. For other students, interest-oriented major would be more ideal, because interest would likely to help them in their academic life and career in the long run.

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135) Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.

The inevitable trend of globalization HAS made competition between graduates more and more fierce. Therefore, some people argue that students should be encouraged to choose majors that would guarantee them with more lucrative careers in order to survive in the society. However, in my opinion, except for technical school students, educational institutions such as universities should not encourage their applicants to choose money-making majors, because which would hinder their personal interest from thriving. Besides,BECAUSE it would not be feasible to predict whether a job is lucrative AFTER THE LONG PERIOD OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, APPLYING THE ADVICE MIGHT NOT LEAD TO THE DESIRED JOBS.

It is not beneficial for the educational institutions like universities to applause for their students to choose money-making fields, since whether the job is lucrative or not is not predictable in the long term. Take the architect in China as an example. In 1990s, architecture is a field with promises of many job offers for the graduates thanks to the booming estate business. Yet, by the turn of the century, the burst of estate bubble had dramatically cut the number of architect in the job market. Nowadays, with the bouncing back of estate market, more architects are again needed to design inhabitant districtions for customers. OBVIOUSLY, DUE TO THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF LUCRATIVE JOBS, FOLLWING THE ADVICE IN THE STATEMENT MIGHT NOT LEAD TO DESIRED OUTCOMS.

In addition, focusing on whether the field could make money or not would hinder students from developing their own interests, which would likely to help them make even greater fortune in the long run. For example, in innovation-oriented corporations such as GOOGLE, staffs are encouraged to pursue their personal interest to create value for the company. A FAMOUS program named "20 percent program" was launched back to 2002, which gave 20 percent of the work time to each staff to work own their subsidiary project. It worked out quite well. As a result, many famous products, such as Google earth and G-mail, came into being with the help of this AUDACIOUS(ardurous) program. APPLYING THE POLICY IN THE STATEMENT WOULD PREVENT STUDENTS FROM DEVELOPING THEIR REAL INTEREST OR ACHIEVING GREATER GOALS IN FUTURE.

Despite what is mentioned for the universities, other educational institutions such as technical schools have enough reason to encourage their students choosing fields that could make more money. For students who attend technical schools, the main purpose is to earn their living after one or two years study. Since the length of schooling is relatively shorter than other school, it is more predictable whether a job is lucrative or not after graduation. Therefore, APPLYING THE POLICY IN THE STATEMENT WOULD HELP them be able to have money-making jobs to support their own living and earn their own economic independence soon after they finishing schooling.

In conclusion, AS THE THREE EXAMPLES CLEARLY ILLUSTRATE, educational institutions such as universities should not encourage students to pursue their field driven by the capability of making money, since job market may not be predictable in that long term and such guidelines would hinder students from cultivating their personal interests, which have become more vital in the ever innovating society. For technical school students, they should be encouraged to do so, due to their relatively short length of school and more desperate need to earn a living.

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130) The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have filed a formal complaint, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants throughout the rest of the country.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

The manager recommended that all restaurants throughout the country should substitute margarine for butter since this cost-saving change is proved to be successful in the restaurants in the southwest region. The argument is based on three assumptions about the number of people in the restaurant who are dissatisfied with the change, customers are not able to tell margarine from butter, and the conditions of restaurants in other areas are the same to the ones in the southeast America. Only after careful examination of these assumptions can we evaluate the soundness of the argument

In the passage, the author assumes that 98 percent of customers are happy with the change mentioned in the memorandum. However, the fact that only 2 percent of people complained about the substitution does not necessarily support the assumption. For example, the restaurant might serve 50 percent of dishes without using margarine or butter, which means a large number of customers would not have the possibility to complain about the problem. Therefore, the actual ratio of people who are complaining might be greater than what is already suggested in the passage.

In addition, it is assumed that customers could not discriminate butter from margarine, since customers who ask for butter do not complain when given margarine instead. Nevertheless, this assumption is also not well supported. For instance, the restaurant might locate at commercial areas. Therefore, the majority of customer could be engaged in busy financial jobs and do not have time to make a complain. Instead they would likely to vote with their own feet and find other restaurant which could provide real butter for their meals.

Finally, based on the cost-saving strategy work out well in the southwest area of America, the author also makes the assumption that the same strategy could be applied to the whole country. However, this does not necessarily happen so. Take the northwest part of the Unite State as an example. People living there might be wealthier and pickier due to their generally superior financial conditions. Therefore, they might concern more about whether the food served is healthy or not, which might lead to a higher rate of complaints and fewer returning customers.

In conclusion, the argument could be more strongly supported is all three assumptions are well founded on data and concrete evidences.

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137) Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.



In my opinion, for undergraduates, they should not be dissuaded from pursuing the fields that they are not likely to succeed, since it is hard to tell whether they are promising or not in their subjects when they are undergraduates, especially in their freshman or sophomore years. Besides, many companies do not expect undergraduate applicants to have a strong background in a specific field, so long as they are reasonably intelligent and diligent. However, for graduate and Ph.D students who aimed to pursue academic career in future, universities have such responsibility to discourage them from engaging in field that they are not likely to succeed, since it requires students’ interest and backgrounds in the field. I will use concrete examples to support my position as follows.

The first reason why the statement doesn’t hold true for undergraduates is that it would be hard to tell whether they are suitable for the fields or not in the beginning years. For example, most freshmen in universities are asked to decide their major before they have the chance to engage in the discipline. Which means it is highly possible that they will find they are not really interested in the subjects after making their decisions. Therefore, their grades might not turn out well. It is likely that after several years’ study and involvement in the field, they will develop and find true interests and talents in the subject. Consequently, they should not be discouraged before they developing their interest for the field, which would help them to be successful in future.

Another reason to refute the statement is that many companies do not require their applicants to have a well-developed knowledge background in a certain field, so long as they are reasonably motivated and enthusiastic about the job. For example, the big-four auditing firms recruits non-accounting graduates from top universities from the world every year, with the belief that their in-house training program could effectively help the graduates learn the technical knowledge they need while they work. For most undergraduates who want to have a career after graduation, an inferior knowledge background will not hinder them from chasing their future career. Therefore, schools need not bother to dissuade them from unpromising majors.

Despite the mentioned condition for undergraduates, universities certainly have the duty to dissuade unpromising students from pursuing their higher degrees such as masters and Ph.Ds. In order to pursue a Ph.d degree, for example, it is required to have systematical knowledge of the discipline and read basically all up-to-date research paper of the field, which could hardly be accomplished if the student have a relative weak background or not likely to succeed in this field. For such a student, the research program could be hindered due to his or her own faults and all the resources and time devoted in the program could be in vain.

In conclusion, as the three examples clearly illustrate, undergraduates should not be dissuaded from the fields that they are not inclined to succeed, since it is nearly impossible to discern unpromising students from all undergraduates and their future career do not require for a strong background in a certain discipline. For students who want to pursue further academic career, the statement holds true because they are not qualified to successfully conducts researches and might waste recourses instead.

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ISSUE70Chuyang



70) Claim: Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's major field of study.
Reason: Acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.

老师，这是一个新系列，我先看了您的范文再写的文章。您写得是ISSUE13和140，题目如下
*13) Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

140) Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.*
*Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented. *
您的证明的是学其他科目课程的好处，分了3个方面，分别是可以帮助学生学习，使他们成为优秀的公民，以及对他们的工作有所助益，分别举了例子。


但是对这个题目ISSUE70，您的讨论《ISSUE的6种题型》的文章也提到过要单独对待，这类是特殊的。因为要对两个句子分别论证（由于篇幅所限，不可能用3个方面去支撑一个句子的论证）就感觉就很难套用您范文的例子。
之前例子套用的比较多，对自己写的例子还不太自信:-(，您能不能给看看例子是不是还算恰当？谢谢老师！(～﹃～)~zZ

In my opinion, neither the claim nor the reason mentioned holds true when examined in reality. Firstly, it is not effective for universities to ask every student to take various courses which do not belong to their own field, due to the enormous stresses being put on the students which prevent them from taking additional courses. Besides, to be truly educated people, the best way is to cultivate ones' own interest rather than taking a large number of courses which only add to one's knowledge instead of wisdom. I will support my points with concrete example as follows.

To begin with, acquiring various knowledge does not necessarily help a person to become truly educated. For example, a person might have smattering knowledge of every discipline in order to satisfy his personal desire to show off in front of people. With such kind of scattered and shallow knowledge, he or she could hardly come up with any ideas original or constructive, which could do little contribution to the general well-being of the society. Therefore, the statement that people can become truly educated best through availing themselves with various knowledge does not stand.

On the contrary, appreciating and focusing on one's own interest would be the best way to cultivate a well-rounded person, since interest is the inherent mechanism that help human beings to thrive and become well-educated. Take a student pursuing PhD degree as an example. As we know, he or she have to devote a large amount of time and energy into a thorough investigation into all research papers in their field, which simply could not be accomplished by pure perseverance or self-discipline. The basic motivation which support them to continuously stick to boring tasks for years would be their interest or love for the subjects. They would feel satisfaction and a sense of achievement when dealing with their tasks. Therefore, cultivating interests instead of knowing various facts could help students get truly educated better.

**Despite what is mentioned about the reason, the claim, which follows the reason does not stand either. Considering the heavy academic burden being added onto the students, the requirement for every student to take a variety of courses would exasperate the current situation. A lot of students would be distracted from their limited attention to their major subjects to finish the tasks assigned in other courses. As a consequence, they could hardly develop any true understanding towards these disciplines. Instead, universities should offer them elective courses rather than mandatory ones, which would prevent the additional courses becoming heavy loads for students.

In conclusion, both the claim and the reason mentioned does not hold true, since students can not simple get well educated by acquiring knowledge from other fields. Instead, it is more effective to cultivate their own interest, which would help them identify and put their time and energy into the discipline that they are truly needed to become a well-educated individual. What's more, courses from other fields should not be mandatory to be taken, because the heavier burden added to them could prevent students from developing true interest towards the course.

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