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发表于 2010-2-24 19:42:15
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本帖最后由 小黄瓜的解夏 于 2010-2-25 21:35 编辑
TOPIC: ARGUMENT203 - The following appeared in a newspaper feature story.
"At the small, nonprofit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient's stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the nearby city of Megaville, the average patient stay is six days. Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more employees per patient than the hospital in Megaville, and there are few complaints about service at the local hospital. Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, nonprofit hospitals is more economical and of better quality than treatment in larger, for-profit hospitals."
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TIME: 00:30:00
DATE: 2010-2-23 23:41:59
Basing on the comparison between the small, nonprofit hospital in Saluda and the large, for-profit hospital in Megavile, supposing that the former one is better than the other, the author concludes that treatment in smaller, nonprofit hospitals is more economical and better than that in larger, for-profit hospitals. However, the comparison made by the author is incomplete, and this analysis is weak with several other critical flaws.
To begin with, the average length of a patients' stay is not a good indication of quality of treatment. It is entirely possible that most of patients who catch serious diseases are more inclined to choose the large hospital, while those who do not have big problem in health choose the small one. And this difference, rather than the quality of treatment, leads to the longer length of stay. After all, the more serious the disease is, the more time is needed for treatment and recovery. Similarly, the author also fails to prove that the cure rate among patients could accurately represent the actual quality of treatment in the hospital. Common sense informs us that it is more difficult that people with serious disease could recover.
Moreover, we could find neither concrete nor sufficient evidence to substantiate the assumption that the more employees could reflect better quality of treatment. Perhaps it is because the working staff in the hospital in Saluda is less effective than those in the hospital in Megavile that the smaller hospital have to keep more employees to guarantee its normal operation. If so, this evidence presented by the author contradicts his assumption that the smaller hospital has better quality of treatment.
In addition, the author fails to inform us the charges in these two hospitals, thus it is impossible to evaluate whether the smaller hospital is a more economical choice than the larger one. For that matter, the author's conclusion loses its credibility.
Even assuming that the author could substantiate all of the foregoing assumptions, it is still groundless to apply the result of the previous comparison to all hospitals. Unless the author could provide evidence to demonstrate that these two hospitals' conditions are representative enough of the whole general groups' condition, the conclusion would still remain untenable.
To sum up, the analysis lacks credibility as it stands. To strengthen and solidify it, the author ought to provide more information to make a comprehensive and thorough comparison between the two hospitals. Moreover, other hospitals' conditions aside from those presented in the argument should also be evaluated.
模考了一下才发现速度的不足,虽然也听说过字数不决定一切的说法,但是我觉得字数多总归能说清楚一点,像这篇我速度不足导致complaints那个点没有攻击到,杯具了,之后会注意。
现在自己很困惑觉得每段说理都特别不充分,而且存在一个意思反复说上好几遍的问题,不知道各位看了这一篇之后有什么意见和建议。。。
另外,有的文章错误一多就有点不知道该怎么派兵布局了,不知道各位对我这篇的错误攻击的顺序有什么看法,或者更好的建议,谢谢。 |
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