ARGUMENT140 【Awer小组】第九周习作

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In the argument the reporter concluded that professor Thomason should receive a $10,000 raise and a promotion to department chairperson in consideration of her demonstrated teaching and research abilities. And to support this point, the author took her popularity and the money she has brought to the university in the research grants as the evidences. However, a couple of obvious fallacy and obscure factor that may lead to a premature notion has been not supposed to be overlook before that.
First of all, since the reporter spoke that she owes a largest class at the university, the survey fail to convince me that she is really popular among students according to the limited recording. A biggest class does not mean that most of the students prefer to her class, whose content may not be welcomed by the students. In addition, by citing on the absence of a statistics manifesting itself in   the real students’ thoughts, the so-called demonstrating her popularity among student is only a hasty conclusion.
Secondly, the arguer hastily gains to the point that the money she has brought to the university in research grants has exceeds her salary in each of the last two years. Compared with other teachers, there is a probability that the merits of her contribution are much less than of any other teacher’s in the department. Moreover, apart from the above question, the evidence can not enable her to ensure that the financial assist is going to be cut down or cut off in the future after her promotion to the department chairperson.
Finally, the arguer unfairly comes to the assumption that without the raise and promotion, the professor Thomas will leave the university for another college. If she can bring a great deal of money, her left looks like a huge losing from the viewpoint of the college. However, neither her incoming or position may improve greatly in another college. Considering the habit, location and family, conversely, she needs to make a choice that she has to stay in the college where she contributes herself in the past years.
In the conclusion, the argument fails to convince me that there are some needs to promote her position and enhance her incoming. Without considering the fallacy in the survey, we may be cheated by the superficial conduct. After all, a great deal of complicated factor lead to a simple .If we are masked by the superficiality, we will fall in the pitfall unconsciously.