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ARGUMENT238 - The following appeared in a memorandum from the president of Mira Vista College to the college's board of trustees.

"At nearby Green Mountain College, which has more business courses and more job counselors than does Mira Vista College, 90 percent of last year's graduating seniors had job offers from prospective employers. But at Mira Vista College last year, only 70 percent of the seniors who informed the placement office that they would be seeking employment had found full-time jobs within three months after graduation, and only half of these graduates were employed in their major field of study. To help Mira Vista's graduates find employment, we must offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors to help students with their resumés and interviewing skills."

The president of Mira Vista College(MVC) assert that to support graduates to find jobs, MVC must offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors to help students with their resumes and interviewing skills. To confirm this assertion, the president also point out that the nearby Green Mountain College(GMC)'s graduates got more job offer as they have more business course and job counselors. However, after carefully evaluation, this memo suffered from several logical flaws that render it is injustice.

To begin with, the president's recommendation to hire more job counselors and business courses was based on the assumption that all these facts are contribute most to the high job offers on GMC. Nevertheless, the presidents provide no evidence to prove this. It is entirely possible that the graduating seniors in GMC require low incomes than average. Or perhaps the majors of GMC’s graduating seniors are more desired in job market and the more business course was set as elective course instead of compulsory course. Or perhaps the students in GMC are better in arranging personal future than job consolers in GMC. Any of such scenarios would diminish the president’s assumption.

Secondly, even assume that the Mac’s high job offers was derived actually form the business course it offered and more job counselors it hired, there is no evidence to confirm that the comparatively low job offer in MVG is because of lake of business course and job counselors: prehaps the average academic performance of seniors in MVC was far behind MGC, or perhaps the placement office did not got enough data about seniors because of few respondents and there are still times left from graduating of seniors. Without evidence to eliminate these possibilities, the president’s assertion is inconvincible.

Finally, even if MVC’s low job offers was attribute to lack of business course and job counselor the president’s assertion to offer more business courses and computers technology and hire job counselors to help resumes and interview skills are unwarranted. Perhaps the job counselor GMC hired has better social recruit relationship and therefore could offer more job employ information, and student’s job interview and resumes are already well prepared in MVC. Or perhaps only offer more business course and computer technology is not enough prepare student well in finding adjustable jobs since their majors are already fulfilled in job marked. Without rolling out this or other possible, the president in MVC can not fairly justify his assertion.

In conclusion, the presidents recommendation is not well construct. To provide a justice assertion, the president should provide evidence that the higher job offer in MGC was attribute to business courses and job counselors, and MVC lack of these resource to serve for graduating seniors, and provide the same solution to MVC could generate the desired results.

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