【Big Fish】习作-Argument238-By Edwardlzk

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT238 - The following appeared in a memorandum from the president of Mira Vista College to the college's board of trustees.

"At nearby Green Mountain College, which has more business courses and more job counselors than does Mira Vista College, 90 percent of last year's graduating seniors had job offers from prospective employers. But at Mira Vista College last year, only 70 percent of the seniors who informed the placement office that they would be seeking employment had found full-time jobs within three months after graduation, and only half of these graduates were employed in their major field of study. To help Mira Vista's graduates find employment, we must offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors to help students with their resumés and interviewing skills."
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TIME: 00:50:00
DATE: 2010-2-25 17:14:52

In the memorandum, the president of Mira Vista College aims to convince us that the graduates of Mira Vista College are less competitive in job hurting than the graduates in nearby Green Mountain College, which is certainly a result of their lacking resume and interviewing skills, thus the president recommend to take actions to overcome these deficiencies by hiring additional job counselor to help the students. The recommendation seems advisable, however, several critical flaws undermine the line of reasoning.

To begin with, the president fails to establish a causal relationship between the satisfactory statistics in GM College and the business courses or job counselors. Many factors will similarly contribute to the high percentage of the graduates who had go their offers such as the reputation of GM college, a more reasonable algorithm of GPA. Unless some supporting evidences are cited, I am not able to agree with the president's vague and gratuitous assumption.

Furthermore, the statistics cited by the president lend scant support to conclude that the graduates from MV College are less competitive. On one hand, the '70 percentage' is problematic itself, is it existing the possibility that some of our graduates did not inform the College after getting the offer? On another hand, the president fails to provide any evidence to demonstrate the number of our graduates who decided to find a work after graduating. As far as I am concerned, quite a few graduates choose to further their study by taking our Master or PhD program.

Moreover, a comparison is made by the president while unfortunately, from my point of view, it is a fallacy of false analogy in many aspects. Firstly, the offer rate of GM College last year can not be compared with that of MV College this year. Secondly, mere evidence can be found in the memo to illustrate that the two Colleges are comparable in all aspects such as major researching realms, social reputations or so forth. Thirdly, judging the how competitive the graduates are can not only from the offer rate, but also the offer satisfaction, the fame of the corporation.

Finally, the president commits the fallacy of hasty generalization. Although it is a truth that graduates in GM College are more competitive, it does not certainly indicates that our students are lacking the resuming and interview skills or even computer skills, probably the problems lay in the faculties, the hardware and other related factors.

In sum, the recommendation rests on certain unreliable assumption that render it unconvincing as it stands, to strengthen it, the president should provide more evidence to illustrate why MV and GM are comparable, and the shortage of MV College lay in the business knowledge, computer skills or the resume and interviewing ability.

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