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题目:ARGUMENT140 - The following appeared in a report of the Committee on Faculty Promotions and Salaries at Elm City University.
"During her seventeen years as a professor of botany, Professor Thomas has proved herself to be well worth her annual salary of $50,000. Her classes are among the largest at the university, demonstrating her popularity among students. Moreover, the money she has brought to the university in research grants has exceeded her salary in each of the last two years. Therefore, in consideration of Professor Thomas' demonstrated teaching and research abilities, we recommend that she receive a $10,000 raise and a promotion to Department Chairperson; without such a raise and promotion, we fear that Professor Thomas will leave Elm City University for another college."
字数:491 用时:00:32:15 日期:2008-1-20 16:44:23
In this argument, the author cites the evidence that Professor Thomas as a preeminent teacher in Elm City University should be considered raising salary base on which he assumes that if without this privilege Thomas will leave Elm City University. Another piece of evidence presented to bolster this argument is that Tomas's classes are among the largest at the university. Hence the author draws the conclusion that without such a raise and promotion, Professor Thomas will leave this university and find another college to work. Close scrutiny this argument, I find several critical fallacies as it stands.
To begin with, the author unfairly assumes that the specious situation that Thomas has the largest classes among at the university is attributable to her superexcellent ability of education. To bolster this assumption the author must provide other appropriate evidence or information to confirm this assumption. Perhaps, considerable number of students in her classes is not favor of the special field in her researched. Or it is entirely possible that in order to easily obtain much more score, vast majority of students were forced to attend this series of courses. In short, without considering and ruling out other possible reasons why Thomas has the largest group of classes at this university, I cannot convince the author's assumption that this fact has correlated with her truly ability within teaching.
Secondly, even assuming that Thomas is an eminent professor in Elm City University, it is unnecessarily indicate that Elm City University should consider raise salary and promote her status or she will be leave. Lacking evidence that Thomas was a pattern of low moral teacher, perhaps not only Thomas as a professor in knowledge research but she has an immense loyal on education of Elm City University. In short, without taking into account possibility that Thomas probable a loyal teacher in the extent of this perspective from current condition with this university, the fact that without such a raise and promotion Thomas will leave is wholly paradox.
Last but not least, the author overlooks the possibility that raise and promotion in order to retain Thomas in this university is not the unique way to solve this problem. Such those factors might include improve management system or personnel turnover on Elm City University, ameliorate course arraignment for students, etc. Since the argument fails to account for this alternative explanation for the best way to keep on Thomas work in university in a long run, the author cannot make any concrete recommendation base on he assumes.
To sum up, the conclusion lacks credibility because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support for the author maintains. To strengthen this argument, the author has to provide more evidence concerning whether have any other university in our city and to invite Thomas? To better reevaluation this argument, I need to more information about whether Thomas will accept this manner of welfare was afforded by Elm City University.
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