【7\8\9\10】 argument13 第六次作业

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In this argument, the arguer says that we at Green Thumb Gardening Center can increase our profits by expanding the variety of vegetable seeds we stock for gardeners this coming spring. At first glance, the author’s reasoning seems to be appealing, while clearly examining the author’s reasoning, we may find that it is unconvincing. The argument contains several facets that are questionable.

At the first place, the arguer unfairly assumes that the Great Gardens bears some relation to people becoming more and more interesting to growing their own vegetables. The arguer may neglect other factors which might also bring about the gardening magazine Great Gardens sold out at the Village News stand three months in a row. An alternative explanation may be that the number of this magazine is very small. Besides this, the arguer does not provide any solid information concerning what's the content of this magazine. In addition, the arguer does not tell us the purpose of people who buy this magazine. It is possible that these people just want to glorify their garden and they have no interest in growing their own vegetables.

At the second place, the national survey can not persuade us that many consumers are dissatisfied with the quality of fresh vegetables available in supermarkets. The arguer only provides a national survey, but we do not know the conditions of this suburban town. Because it is most probably that this survey is taken in large city and the people who take this survey maybe live in the center of a city. In this palace, the supermarket is the most probably place to get vegetables. This is obviously different from suburban town. For instance, in suburban town, people may find easily to buy fresh and good vegetables. Besides this, they do not depend on supermarket as strongly as the people living in the city centre and they can buy vegetables in grocery and farm.

At the third place, even though the people who live in suburban town are not satisfied with the supermarket, they may not want to grow their own vegetables, because it will take much time and money. The arguer does not provide any evidence to make sure that the people who are not satisfied with supermarkets all want to grow vegetables. The conclusion about expending the variety of vegetables is also too arbitrarily. The auger thinks that the consumer can pick from more the variety of vegetables and, in this way, the profits will be increased. But we do not know the problem of cost. Expending the variety of vegetables must enlarge the cost and the profits will be declined. Consequently, if the arguer wants to make this conclusion, he should take more alternatives into account.

To sum up, as it stands, the argument is not very reasoned. To solidify his conclusion, the arguer should provide more concrete evidence to prove that expending the variety of vegetables will increase our profits. In addition, the arguer should realize the difference between the national survey and the conditions in suburban town.