【Big Fish】03月01日argument169

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT169 - The following appeared in a letter from a department chairperson to the president of Pierce University.
"Some studies conducted by Bronston College, which is also located in a small town, reveal that both male and female professors are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same geographic area. Therefore, in the interest of attracting the most gifted teachers and researchers to our faculty and improving the morale of our entire staff, we at Pierce University should offer employment to the spouse of each new faculty member we hire. Although we cannot expect all offers to be accepted or to be viewed as an ideal job offer, the money invested in this effort will clearly be well spent because, if their spouses have a chance of employment, new professors will be more likely to accept our offers."



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In this argument ,the author claims that the money inviested in the effort for providing employment to the spouse of each new faculty is well spent . The reason given is that  new professors will be more likely to accept our job if we offer employment to their spouses .  And this reason is resulted from a research conducted by Bronston College.However ,this argument can't  be convincing in the course of rational reasoning.

The first ,the author misunderstands the result of the study. The study ,which reveal both male and female professors are happier living in small town when their spouses also works there ,not means  professors will entirely decide their  jobs by considering their spouses . It is more likely that this research involves the attitude of some proffessors who already work at a satisfied job. In this situation, they certainly be happier when their spouses live a place near them. Moreover , to a very great extent , individuals decide a job for their love to it but  not for another person .Thus ,it is not logically to assume that gifted teachers and researchers will vastly come to our university when we promise to provide employment to their spouses unless we offer disirable work for themselves.

Scondly ,it is not evident that our money is well spent even some professors really come.  Considering the cost it will take to provide each professor's spouse a job ,this effort is necessarily profitable ? Could the professors' achievments surass the cost? After all , the outcome of science field is always so obscure.  The burden on our university would become gradully taxing. Obviously , the author's ideal is unrealistic to be realized.

To conclude ,this argument is not persuasive as it stands. Before we accept the conclusion ,the author must present more particulars of the study ,such as ,what kind of the professors they have investigate. Moreover, a integrated caculation of this spent is needed. Only by this way , we could identify whether or not the effor can work.

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT169 - The following appeared in a letter from a department chairperson to the president of Pierce University.
"Some studies conducted by Bronston College, which is also located in a small town, reveal that both male and female professors are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same geographic area. Therefore, in the interest of attracting the most gifted teachers and researchers to our faculty and improving the morale of our entire staff, we at Pierce University should offer employment to the spouse of each new faculty member we hire. Although we cannot expect all offers to be accepted or to be viewed as an ideal job offer, the money invested in this effort will clearly be well spent because, if their spouses have a chance of employment, new professors will be more likely to accept our offers."



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The author tend to give some useful suggestions for Pierce University to attract more gifted teachers and improve the morale of its entire staff(指出目的）. However, the conclusion that the action of offering employment to the spouse of each new faculty memeber will be well spent is not very convincing（指出手段）, for the author  introduces a few unwarranted assumptions which will be disussed below.



Firstly, the author unfairly assumes that if the teachers' spouses have a chance of employment, they will be more likely to accept the University's offer. In fact, the mere fact that both male and female professors are happier living in small towns is far from being sufficient to conclud that this kind of happy just comes from their spouses. It's more possible that their happiness is primarily based on  high salaries and promising researches in B Unversity. Perhaps, a perfect environment where B University is located could also be a factor in determining good mood of these professors. If this is the case, then it is common that these professors will be happier when they are be able to live together with their spouses in B University. So, lacking more specif information of the study, we has no reson to believe that we could attact many professors just by providing their spouses with employment.

The second unwarranted assumption in this argument is that most of the professors mentioned are gifted ones. We have no data showing how many gifted professors also tend to be happier just for living together with spouses. As we know, teachers or researchers who hold outstanding abilities care more about the academic level of a university. However, the author provide no information whether P University could meet this level. Thus, it's reasonable to doubt if the recommendation that offer each staff's spouse could attract some most gifted professors.

In addition, the author unfairly assumes that the morale of a university could be boosted just by some most gifted pfofessors. In practice, other factors such as fund of this university, academic atmosphere and so on may be more import in determining the morale of an institution. Morover, without comprehensive analysis of fesibility of the acton offering employment for each professor's spouse, stating that this investment will be absolutely well spent is premature. After all, it is not a small expenditure to do so.


In sum,thiis argument is not persuasive as it stands. To attract some most gifted teachers and improve the morale of P University, the autor possibly need to take more specific investigation or come up with other ways.