- 最后登录
- 2012-5-4
- 在线时间
- 141 小时
- 寄托币
- 621
- 声望
- 8
- 注册时间
- 2010-1-28
- 阅读权限
- 20
- 帖子
- 8
- 精华
- 0
- 积分
- 656
- UID
- 2756583
 
- 声望
- 8
- 寄托币
- 621
- 注册时间
- 2010-1-28
- 精华
- 0
- 帖子
- 8
|
3.01 Argument No.169
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."
===================================================================================================================
The chairperson in the letter claims to Pierce University should offer every spouse of professor we hire employment, for appealing the exception teachers and researches to our faculty and even rise our staff’s morale. However, the author’s statement has one and more assumption and no sufficient evidence, so that his point of view could not convince me.
To begin with, the author confuses vague data between the Bronston College’s research data and our Pierce University’s survey. Although the Bronston College’s professors are will to reside with their spouses in a small town, it can not show that the same group people be happier living in our town with their families. They prefer the town which Bronston located due to other reasons. Perhaps it has fresh air, convenient transportation, well basic education for their children. All of above advantages we don’t have. So the author should provide appropriate data about the willing of professor of the town that Pierce University stand in.
Secondly, even though the Pierce University’s lecturers with pleasure to living in the town with their spouses, the author unfairly assumes that their wife or husband would like to accept the employment that from university. They would prefer to do other occupations such as cabmen, workers, high-tech engineers, nurses, tailor or even just stay at home to take care for their children and old parents. As a result, the chairperson ought to give more details about whether the professors’ spouses disposed do some work in university.
Thirdly, even though the families of professors would be willing to accept the employment offer by the Pierce, it would not worth for the university. Our campus don’t have redundant task for others, because of we are general university, there are not too much students in there, so we needn’t recruit much more personnel to waste our expense. In addition, these professor just wish to their spouses live with them in same town and it is easy to get other jobs in our town. So we no need to spend worthless payment on offer their employment. Unless the speaker can supply accurate evidence on the usefulness of our university offer jobs to professors’ families.
In sum up, the author should not confuse the survey data, he should provide more details and evidence on relevant views when he point out his statement. If he could give the accurate research about the spouses of professors willing and the worth of spend our university on offer their occupation, it would convince me.
|
|