argument9 第二次作业〔AW狂人社〕fuyanjie 出题序号6

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argument9 第二次作业〔AW狂人社〕fuyanjie 出题序号6

TOPIC: ARGUMENT9 - The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University.
"Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors."
WORDS: 437          TIME: 0:42:15          DATE: 2007-3-6
The arguer intends to use the evidence that overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent after Omega University implemented a new procedure to demonstrate that it is evaluating the teaching effectiveness of the professors that leads to higher grades. It takes this assumption as a starting point. The fact that Omega graduates have not been as successful at hunting jobs as Alpha  is appropriated here as a key evidence to recommend that to enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors. A close study of other facets of this argument would produce important findings that it suffer from several logical flaws.
First, the way to encourage students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of the professors is regarded as the determinative and vital reason which result in the fact overall the students grade at Omega rise by thirty percent while the former probably is a neglectable element leading to the latter. The arguer fails to take other factors into consideration. For example, perhaps the students in Omega University become increasingly interested and diligent in many fields of all the subjects. Also, it is likely that after implementing student evaluation of professors, all the professors in Omega University pay more attentions on how to give the students a wonderful class and how to lead the student more easily to the success in mastering of the professional skills.
Second, even assumption that student evaluation of professors gives rise to the result that the grade of all the Omega student have risen by thirty percent, however, the assumption that potential employers apparently believe that the grades at Omega are inflated and it is why Omega graduates have not been successful at getting job is base on insufficient information. A survey regarding that if the employees look down on the Omega graduates grades or some evidence should be informed so as to convince us the assumption is truth. Perhaps, the Omega graduates are lack of experience about job interview while Alpha open job hunting courses.
Finally, the arguer take the assumption that if the grades of Omega graduates fall down, they will surely find good jobs. But it is totally wrong. The major factor which determines that if you can win the job is your ability, but not grades.
In sum, the conclusion of this argument is unconvincing in that it depends on the unwarranted details given by the author. It is unnecessary for us to accept that it is the only method to enable the graduates to get better jobs that is to terminates student evaluation of professors.