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TOPIC: ARGUMENT145 - A new study collected data that shows that people who snore are more likely to gain weight than are people who do not snore. It is well known that many people who snore also stop breathing frequently during the night for a few seconds, a condition called sleep apnea. The interruption of breathing wakes the person-often so briefly that the waking goes unnoticed-and can leave the person too tired during the day to exercise. Anyone who snores, therefore, should try to eat less than the average person and to exercise more.
WORDS: 339          TIME: 0:30:00          DATE: 2007-1-2

     The author asserts that any snorers gain weight easily and they should try to eat less and exercise more than the average person. However, the conclusion is unconvincing since he cites a gratuitous data that snores are more likely to gain weight, and an ill-logical reasoning that sleep apnea will cause weight and tire to support his assertion.
      At the beginning, the author cites on an unjustifiable data that snores are likely to gain weight. There are third flaws. Firstly, no evidence is provided to substantiate that snore are the cause of the weight, it is entirely possible that the weight contributes to the snore. Or what other factors besides weight such as eating habit, gene and so forth that the snore is attributable to. Secondly, the reliability of the data is still questionable, the author needs to cite clearly evidence that the people contributing to the statistic are significant adequate, and they represent the whole snores in general. If the people are, all chosen from a limited area, in which most of the people has heavy weight, snorers. While other group of people in the near area is also snorers but have thin bodies. Therefore, without ruling out these alternative explanations, we can not accept the snore will cause the weight.
     Moreover, the author assumes an indefensible assumption that sleep apnea is the reason of the weight. However, the author provides no evidence to support it. It is likely that the sleep apnea has no relationship with it at all. But other factors besides such as the eating habit, and some medical condition that cause snoring also cause the weight again. Without ruling out this possibilities, we can not conclude from the sleep apnea is the cause of the weight, let alone the author's conclusion/
     Even admit there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the sleep apnea and weight, that the conclusion that everyone should eat less than average person and to exercise more is questionable. It is possible that some snores, even most of them did not have weight, that this proposed action is not feasible from him. Moreover, the sleep apnea is the cause of the weight, any actions such as eating has no relationship with them or not.
Finally, even admit that discussed above are true, the advice to exercise is still to be logically unsound. Just as the information mentioned in the passage, the snorers whose weight are caused by the sleep apnea are too tired during the day to exercise, therefore, the proposed action to exercise has no merits.
      To sum up, the speaker’s advice for “any” snorers are ill-convinced. To support the conclusion, the speaker must provide assurance that the sleep apnea is the cause of the weight, and less eating and exercise will reduce the weight and indirectly declining the snore.