Argument180 飞跃dreams第五次作业

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT180 - The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.

"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a five-hundred-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read costs only $500 per employee-a small price to pay when you consider the benefits to Acme. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
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In this recommendation, the personnel director of Acme Publishing Company concludes that requiring all employees to take Easy Readd course will surely benefits the company greatly. To strengthen his conclusion, he endeavors to convince us the high efficiency and low expenditure of this course. At first glance, this recommendation seems tantalizingly reliable and helpful, but further evaluation tells us the director commits several logical fallacies in his reasoning and weakens the conclusion.

To begin with, the director commits a fallacy of false analogy. Other companies' improvement in productivity does not lend strong support to taking identical measures in Acme. It is entirely possible that employees from other publishing companies graduate mostly from engineering colleges and lacks several fundamental skills in reading. And in such case, further consideration about Acme's employees should be taken. Additionally, improvement of other companies is based upon the excellent behaviour of two graduates, however, is unconvincing. The statistical evidence as well as comprehensive survey over whole graduates is needed. Without precise percentage of graduates who really have progresses, the citation about the two is neither representative nor persuasive.

Secondly, the director fails to establish casual relationship between fast reading and high efficiency. Since different people are accustomed to different reading methods, forcing them reading in an identical way is infeasible and inefficient. Skipping, skimming, scanning are all methods people prefer, and each individual has his or her own choice to accelerate reading speed. Bringing every employee to the course may conversely decrease their interest in reading.

Even assuming that employees in Acme are all fit for and interested in this course, requiring all employees to take it is both arbitrary and misleading. 500 dollars for one will not be a huge fee for a company, but when it comes to all employees, it may cost Acme greatly. To make matter worse, vast absence due to the course will surely decrease the productivity and decelerate the development. To convince us the capacity to remain the productivity with a great deal of employees absent, the director should provide further evidence including economic budget in years to come, total number of its employees, general tendency to taking courses.

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In this recommendation, the personnel director of Acme Publishing Company concludes that requiring all employees to take Easy Readd course will surely benefits the company greatly. To strengthen his conclusion, he endeavors to convince us the high efficiency and low expenditure of this course. At first glance, this recommendation seems tantalizingly reliable and helpful, but further evaluation tells us the director commits several logical fallacies in his reasoning and weakens the conclusion.
我感觉这种模式化的开头既啰嗦又很浪费时间，其实官方范文里很多都是一上来就直截了当地指出argument的问题所在，我觉得这种方法可以学习一下

To begin with, the director commits a fallacy of false analogy. Other companies' improvement in productivity does not lend strong support to taking identical measures in Acme. It is entirely possible that employees from other publishing companies graduate mostly from engineering colleges and lacks several fundamental skills in reading.这个推测不符合常理，感觉有点勉强，理工科的学生可能写文章文采差一些，但未必就不具备基本阅读能力（好歹也是考进了大学的人啊） And in such case, further consideration about Acme's employees should be taken. Additionally, improvement of other companies is based upon the excellent behaviour of two graduates, however, is unconvincing. The statistical evidence as well as comprehensive survey over whole graduates is needed. Without precise percentage of graduates who really have progresses, the citation about the two is neither representative nor persuasive.

Secondly, the director fails to establish casual relationship between fast reading and high efficiency. Since different people are accustomed to different reading methods, forcing them reading in an identical way is infeasible and inefficient. Skipping, skimming, scanning are all methods people prefer, and each individual has his or her own choice to accelerate reading speed. Bringing every employee to the course may conversely decrease their interest in reading.
快速与高效之间没有必然联系，确实如此。不过应该深入分析一下为什么速度快了反而有可能效率低下

Even assuming that employees in Acme are all fit for and interested in this course, requiring all employees to take it is both arbitrary and misleading. 500 dollars for one will not be a huge fee for a company, but when it comes to all employees, it may cost Acme greatly. To make matter worse, vast absence due to the course will surely decrease the productivity and decelerate the development. To convince us the capacity to remain the productivity with a great deal of employees absent, the director should provide further evidence including economic budget in years to come, total number of its employees, general tendency to taking courses.

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