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"Walnut Grove's town council has advocated switching from EZ Disposal (which has had the contract for trash collection services in Walnut Grove for the past ten years) to ABC Waste, because EZ recently raised its monthly fee from $2,000 to $2,500 a month, whereas ABC's fee is still $2,000. But the town council is mistaken; we should continue using EZ. EZ collects trash twice a week, while ABC collects only once. Moreover, EZ—which, like ABC, currently has a fleet of 20 trucks—has ordered additional trucks. Finally, EZ provides exceptional service: 80 percent of respondents to last year's town survey agreed that they were satisfied' with EZ's performance."
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1.新手ABC很有可能和精力比老手EZ做的好
2.没必要收集两次垃圾,这样更浪费钱
3.还是SURVEY的老问题,TAKERS参与人是否占整个TOWN的大多数,还有是否有比"satisfied"更好的一个选项,而TAKERS选那个作为对ABC的评价
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In this letter, based on unfounded assumption and dubious evidence, the author hastily generalizes that Walnut Grove town should switching to ABC waste. Before making any conclusion, the following points in this letter should be reconsidered.
Firstly, EZ Disposal has provided the service for collecting Walnut Grove town for over the last 10 years, whereas ABC is a relatively new trash collection company to Walnut Grove. From common sense we could conclude that ABC Waste has a better potential in the trash collecting business than EZ disposal, because a newer has more potential and vigor that old ones.
Secondly, from the author’s point of view, the reason that switching to ABC Waste is mostly because that EZ has raised its fee due to it provided twice trash collecting service than ever before. So the cost is deserved to the rising payment. However, the author fails to provide the information that the dwellers in Walnut Grove need an additional trash collecting. On the basis of frequency of collection it would make no sense to favor EZ's costlier service over ABC's less expensive one.
The last but not the least, the conclusion unreasonably relies on the survey that 80 percent of respondents agreed that they were “satisfied" with EZ's performance. The survey cited is too vague to be informative. The claim does not provide sufficient evidence to confirm the reliability of that survey, because it fail to indicate what other ranks in that survey and the rate of the people who take the survey in all of the residents in Walnut Grove town. Without any information about the survey, there might be another rank which listed ahead of "satisfied" in the survey and that is most of people choose for ABC. To make a persuasive conclusion, it would be necessary that the respondents in the survey must be the ones who have some experience with both EZ and ABC.
To sum up, though the argument seems to be plausible, in fact, it is neither sound nor persuasive. Not only does it leave out such key issues, but also cites in the analysis the evidence, which does not lend strong support to what arguer claims. To make the argument logical acceptable, the arguer would have to take the following conditions into consideration: the evidence that use the service that has been used for 10 years will be much better than the new comer ABC, the need to trash collecting twice and more information about the survey takers . If the argument includes the given factors discussed above, it would have been more thorough and adequate. |
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