ARGUMENT17 飞跃小组disyoo第二次作业 拍死我吧

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT17 - The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Walnut Grove town newspaper.

"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."
WORDS: 376          TIME: 0:30:00          DATE: 2007-2-25

In this memo, the author concludes that it is mistaken that Walnut Grove's town(WG) council advocated switching from EZ Disposal to ABC Waste. To justify the conclusion the author points out that EZ collects trash twice a week, while ABC collects only once. The author also cites that EZ has a addition of trucks. To strongly support the conclusion the author cites a survey that 80 percent of respondents agreed that the work of EZ performance well. However, the argument  relies on a series of unpersuasive stands.

First, EZ collects trash twice a week, while ABC collects only once do little indicate that ABC is not performance well. Perhaps each time of collection of EZ will leave some trash, but ABC will do better. Or perhaps, besides collects trash, ABC will do more other serves such as clean the street. So it is doubtful to present that ABC does less than EZ by the time of collection of trash.

Second, it is a incomplete analogy between ABC and EZ, because the author mentions that EZ has a addition of trucks, but he ignores what ABC has ordered. It is possible that ABC also has an addition of trucks. Further more, if ABC has more experience workers and more servers, ABC will also do better performance than EZ does. In short, the author should not justify EZ is better only by a single information from EZ.

Third, the author has an incomplete thought in the survey, the respondents exclude everyone in the town. The author has no evidence of the amount of people live in this town and how many of them are taking in the survey, so the number of 80 percent is unbelievable.

In sum, relying on a certain doubtful assumptions and some logically flawed, it is not strongly support that the conclusion in this argument. To bolster the commendation, the author should cite more information about the work each company does everyday, and what is more, it will be more creditable if the author presents that what ABC have addition for the collection work. In the last but the least, the author should cite more evidence to support the respondents can include any suggestion about the work the two companies do in the town.