argument238 [7\8\910] 第十五次作业

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238The 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 resumes and interviewing skills."

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In this argument, the author suggest that Mira Vista College (MVC) should offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors to help more graduating seniors in MVC find job. To support this suggestion, the author also cites a information that 90 percent of graduates in Green Mountain College (GMC) have job offers from employers. And he assumes that this conclusion depends on the fact that GMC have more business courses and more job counselors. I find this argument lie on several unsubstantiated grounds.

First of all, the author wrongly alleges that graduates in MVC have less job offers just because last year 70 percent of the graduates who informed the placement office that they would be seeking employment had found full-time jobs within three months after graduation. Firstly, the situation of offers last year cannot indicate graduates in MVC also have less offers this year and in the years before last year. Secondly, the author ignores the number of graduates who do not inform the placement office, and this group may contain most of graduates in MVC. Next, this evidence only show it is within three months after graduation that 70 percent graduates have full-time job, but it is possible that after these three months the number of graduates who find job is increasing quickly, and exceed those in GMC. So without ruling out these possibilities, this argument is also dubious.

In the second place, admittedly graduates in GMC have more job offers than those in MVC, but the author also fails to cite the instance about GMC. Because he provides no more evidence to support that more job offers of graduates in GMC last year is due to more courses and more job counselors. On the one hand, perhaps GMC absorbs excellent students all the time because of its good reputation or long history, which there is a lack of in MVC. On the other hand, it is entirely possible that the quality of education in GMC is first-class, and their students master technique so good that most of employers would like to give them offers. On balance, the author does not give adequate evidence to convince me that there is a relationship between more offers of GMC's graduates and more business courses and more job counselors.

Additionally, even if the more business and more job counselors works in GMC, there is also not evidence that in MVC this plan will be good for increasing job offers of graduates there. Maybe the two college have different conditions that GMC is famous as a commercial college, so it has more business courses; however, most of students in MVC learn the courses of science and technology, and they have no benefit from more business courses. Therefore, I cannot be convinced well until the author provides more information between the two colleges.

Finally, admittedly graduates in GMC have more job offers than those in MVC, I also doubt that the suggestion of increasing business and computer courses and hire more job counselors is a good idea. Perhaps the measures that MVC should either be stricter on choosing new students, or improve quality of education works better that the one that the author suggests.

To sum up, this argument fails to convince me that MVC should offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors. To strengthen this suggestion, the author should provide more evidence to prove graduates in MVC always have fewer job offers that those in GMC, and more business courses, more computer technology and job counselors would help more MVC graduates found job.