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写用时30分钟,我已经仔细修改过语法和拼写错误,不过可能还有漏网,实在抱歉!多谢进来看的朋友!
提纲:
1.质疑study,两组的比较不公平,一个是专业医师,一个是general doctor
2.还是study,两组参加的人员年龄,职业等
3.即使有效,也不是所有人都会感染
4.即使感染,可能有的人不能用,比如有什么胃病一类其他的病冲突
TOPIC: ARGUMENT51 - The following appeared in a medical newsletter.
"Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment."
WORDS: 470 TIME: 0:30:00 DATE: 2006-3-4
In this argument, the arguer claims that all muscle-strained patients would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment. Then he provides an incredible study which includes some vague statistics to support his conclusion. As discussed below, this argument suffers from several logic flaws and is therefore unpersuasive as it stands. Hence, we can not concede that antibiotics should be recommended to all patients with muscle strains.
First of all, the study could not provide strong support to the conclusion since it uses a comparison between two groups without the same study environments. The first group is treated by a doctor specializing in sports medicine while the second group is treated by a general doctor. Hence, it is possible that the first group recuperate more quickly than the other group is not because they take antibiotics but because they have more special doctor.
Besides, there is no information about the members in the two groups. Whether are the patients in the two groups in the same status before they begin the treatment? Do the second group's patients hurt much harder? Or do the first groups' patients have some other effective medicines since they have a special doctor in sports medicine? And whether the patients in those two groups have the same age and the same professions? If the patients in group one are all young athletes and the patients in group two are all old office persons, the study's result is absolutely meaningless. In this case, the study does not lend any creditable support to this argument.
In addition, even if antibiotics can keep the muscle-strain patients from secondary infections, there is no evidence to show that antibiotics can make the patients recuperate more quickly. In fact, it is absolutely possible that not every patient has the risk to get the secondary infections. For those patients uneasy to infect, are antibiotics effective the same as those patients easy to get secondary infections? In this argument, we cannot find any relative information. Without that information, we can not accept the arguer's recommendation.
Finally, even if the antibiotics are effective for speeding up the recuperation of muscle-strain patients, whether should it be advised to take as a part of the treatment for all patients? The arguer fails to take into account and rules out such facts that some patients perhaps can not take any antibiotics because of their other disasters, such as gastritis and enteritis.
All in all, the arguer makes a arbitrary conclusion based on a unbelievable study by err. To bolster the argument, he should do a well-controlled study about the patients again and make some further study on the patients without secondary infections but healed slowly and provide some information of antibiotics' real effects. Without those further supports, this argument is incredible and not well reasoned.
Some questions:
1. 我这个开头算不算restate the argument?我很担心我的开头是太明显的套模版复述原文,可是又觉得很难在那么短的时间里组织一个好的开头。
2. 3,4段用了问句,不知道这样用算不算涵义清楚地设问?
多谢各位!小妹第一次发作文,有什么操作上不当还望指教。当然同样非常希望各位在写作上给点儿指点,Issue还没开始,现在Argu写成这个样子我很着急。 |
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