【kaleidoscope】小组第9次作业 argumentby rjyu

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In this argument, the author concludes that it is a huge mistake for XYZ to use the less-expensive Walsh Personnel Firm in place of Delany. To support his assertion the author lists his reasons and cites some specious statistics. Although at first sight the argument seems to be appealing, it is in fact ill-stated, as discussed below.

To start with, the author assumes that Walsh always does a poor job in helping fired employers find new jobs, yet he did not provide sufficient evidence to substantiate this crucial assumption. On one hand, without information concerning other firms' --especially Delay's--performance eight years ago it is impossible to make a comparison and evaluate whether Walsh was a good firm or not. Even if by today’s half may be low, Chances are that at that time the whole nation was suffering from economic recession and employment rate was low and Walsh actually did a good job at that time . On the other hand, granted that Walsh indeed was inferior to Delany eight years, such a long time has passed and things have changed a lot. There is no evidence indicating that today's Walsh is still not as good as others.

Besides, the author's evidence concerning Delany's competent is problematic. To begin with, the saying "more quickly" is too vague to be informative, not to mention the author fail to tell us where the statistics come from and why it is reliable. Also, bigger stuff and larger number of branch offices do not necessarily leads to a superior company. It is entirely possible that Delany is a company with large number of mediocre employers while Walsh is an organization consists of elites.  What’s more, the qualification of employers in different branches may differ a lot, which means it is very likely that although this is a renowned company with qualified employers, those work for XYZ may not belong to Delany's core teams. Also, without telling us how the survey was conducted, the final statistics cited by the author lacks credibility.

In addition, even if evidence turns out to support all assumptions mentioned above, what the author fails to take into consideration is that a firm’s performance is not the only thing matters. XYZ exists to make profits, so If Delany is too expensive for XYZ to be affordable,  there is no reason to continue using it no matter how well it performs.

In conclusion, the argument is not so convincing as it stands. To make it more persuasive the author should provide more specific evidence, make sound reasoning as well as take every possible alternative explanation into consideration.