ARGUMENT238 by 晓航

zhangxiaohang1UID: 2705669

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 résumés and interviewing skills."WORDS: 266          TIME: 01:30:00          DATE: 2010/7/20 13:05:49The argument's conclusion is that our Mira Vista College (MVC) should offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors to help MVC's graduates find jobs. To support this conclusion the president makes a comparison about the employment rate of their seniors between Green Mountain College (GMC) and MVC, which is an incomplete comparison. And also the president provides fact that GMC has more business courses and job counselors than MVC without the total number of their students.First, a threshold problem with the argument involves the survey itself. The argument depends on a survey which surfaces the employment rate of GMC is higher than MVC. But in this survey, there're some special restrictions such as the seniors must get a full-time jobs and in three months after graduation on MVC, but not on GMC. These restrictions make that the sample in this survey doesn't be fairly select. With such inequality constraints or to say the selective sample, according this survey we could not conclude that GMC's employment is better than MVC's. Second, it is doubtful that whether GMC and MVC have enough comparable point. The author fails to consider possible differences between MVC and GMC that might help to bring a different result for the employment rate. For instance, there may be different in their reputation, fundament instructions, alumni, location and so forth. As not concerned about these differences, this argument is lacking of convincing.Third, granted that GMC's employment is better than MVC's, the president fail to complete the causal relationship among the employments and courses in business and computer technology and the job counselors. To support this claim, it’s necessary to provide how the business courses contribute to the employment rates does. What’s more, citing some examples that job counselors’ advises work in seniors’ interviews or the process of their finding jobs makes this conclusion more convince.In sum, the president’s evidence accomplishes little toward supporting his argument. Without considering and ruling out these and other possible reasons for establishing this causal chain, we couldn’t accept his conclusion. To further bolster the argument the president need to prove that GMC and MVC are comparable in many aspects. In addition, the president would have to reselect the sample in the survey and accomplish the causal relationship between his suggest and employment rate to rule out the abovementioned possibility which could undermine his claim.

verydarkUID: 2765585

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