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The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College, a private institution, to the college's governing committee.
'We recommend that Grove College preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education rather than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But eighty percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumni who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all-female, therefore, will improve morale among students and convince alumni to keep supporting the college financially.'
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In this argument, the arguer recommends that Grove College should keep the college all-female in order to improve morale among students and convince alumni to keep support the college financially. At first glance this argument is very specific and convincing. A careful examination of it, however, would reveal how groundless it is.
Firstly, the argument is based on the groundless assumption that most of the female students wanted the school to remain all female, but the mere fact that eighty percent students responding a survey oppose coeducation is insufficient to prove this assumption. First of all, the arguer does not mention ratio of the students responding the survey to the total, if the students responding only account for a small part of the total, their ideas can notcannot represent the majority’s. Besides, the arguer fails to provide the sex composition of the students responding,我在这儿有点疑问?这个学校现在都是女生啊,怎会有你说得问题 it is quite possible that most students opposed coeducation are men while most female students still like coeducation, if so, the adoption of the recommendation necessarily hurts the morals of the female students.
Secondly, granted that most of female students want all-female education, it is still too early to say that the morale among students will be improved. Lots of other factors affect the morale among students, like the level of the teachers, the quality of the equipments, and so on. No evidence shows that the other factorother factors can cater students' interest. Furthermore, as the arguer says, most faculty are in favor of coeducation, this recommendation must说得绝对了,用may 吧 hurt their enthusiasm, then cause the decease of the quality of lessons, impact the morale of students indirectly.
Finally, the conclusion about alumni needs discussion too. First of all, no evidence shows that the separate survey involve most all the alumni, if not,就是没有吧 minority’s opinion can not represent the all. Even if all of the alumni oppose coeducation, there is no evidence shows that they will stop supporting the college. Alumni always have deep emotion to their Alma Mater, their support will not be impaired by slight discontent.我觉得你说这句话本身就有逻辑问题 太绝对了
To sum up, this argument is not well reasoning reasoned and lack of credibility because the evidence cited in the argument does not lead strong support to what the arguer maintains. To make the arguer more convincing, the arguer would have to provide more evidence to prove that most of students want all female education and most of alumni object to coeducation strongly.
整体上说你这篇已经很不错了, 就是觉得在反驳对方观点时不要说得那么绝对,不知楼主几号考试希望共勉吧
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