argument 180【0806G-永不言弃小组】

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In this argument, the author recommands that the employees of Acme Publishing Company(APC) should participate in the course for accelerating the reading speed. The author’s assertion is on the grounds that one graduate from the course was able to read a long report in 2 hours and it also led one graduate to higher position, also the comments from other companies are rosy. Although this assertion has some credibility, according to my opinion, it has committed a number of fallacies.

Firstly, the conclusion suffers from false analogy. The fact that the comments from other companies are alluring might not necessarily indicate that the course would be beneficial to APC, especially considering that they differ from their fields they are engaged in. Their nature becomes the crucial point in the comparability between them. It is entirely possible that the employees from other companies need the accelerating speed for documentation noting while APC has little things to do with the reading speed. For that matter, different standards and natures might cause a blind pursuit if it is according to the author. Unless the author complements that they belong to the same industries, there’s no comparability between these companies and ACP.

At the second place, no guarantee is stated that it is the course that mainly lead the graduate to vice president.Maybe it's only a coincidence. It is even hard to imagine that a person with only higher reading speed could make sense in promotion. At least, the author omits other possible factors that cause the promotion. As is known to us all, fortitude, persistence, modesty and other merits account for the success in jobs. For this matter, the assistant might have some accomplishments that leading to the appreciation of his chief.

Thirdly, no evidence shows that the more you read, the more you absorb. It is universally acknowledged that one’s attention span is limited, which in turn indicates that the effetive reading couldn’t be reached generally in the face of long-time digestion. For the special characteristic of a publishing company, apprehension may be of greater importance than speed. Even if the assertion was admitted, the author fails to supply the causal link between faster reading ,that is, the amount of information and productivity. It is entirely possible that productivity does not go with the speed of reading accelerated.

In sum, the author fails to supply enough compelling evidence to justify his recommendation. Without information stated that APC is the counterpart of the beneficiaries of the course, and that the relationship between the amount of information and productivity virtually exists, we are not convinced that APC would obtain the same effect only according to the author’s original report.

[ 本帖最后由 zhouding3000 于 2007-12-14 23:08 编辑 ]