【9.29】Issue 9 提纲

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9"Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use."

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The speaker oversimplifies the issue of academic influence on society.
1.It is true that academic disciplines have become so specialized nowadays that some scholar’s seemingly idiosyncratic ideas only reach a narrow audience.
2.It is also true that social scientists’ failing to reach the large public makes it impossible for their ideas to contribute to society.
3.Nevertheless, scholars in certain realms are doomed to live in an isolated and purely academic world, which does not necessarily mean that their ideas will have little use.

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POSITION: disagree
1.        Over-specialization in academic fields may have caused scholars’ narrowly-known ideas, but not the poor application or further extension of those ideas.
2.        Moreover, the relationship between the specialized disciplines and narrowed-audience is not so significant as the author believes.
3.        Often the very truth is that academic specialization incredibly contributes to scientific advancement at present as well as in the future. People witness these demonstration and necessity typically through the medicine field.

4.        Nevertheless, the praise of academic specialization in my observation aims not to undermine the positive will towards a wider audience available. The ultimate obligation of science, accordingly and realistically, serves to the human species as a whole.

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两边望
有些学科是应该有更多的观众才能更好的发展，像文学，艺术。
而有些则是不可能有观众基础的，像理论物理，神学等高深的学科。
还有些学科应该让更多人了解，尽管很少的关注可能不太会阻碍其发展，医学，各个分支学科已经越分越开，各自有一套理论，但医学知识还是要普及大众，这样才有利于医疗公众。