argument238——欢迎各种拍砖

yuling-10GUID: 2849632

WORDS: 426

In this memorandum, the president of Mira Vista College(MVC) claims that in order to help the graduates to find employment, MVC should hire more job counselors and offer more business and computer technology courses. To support his or her claim, the president draw a comparison of the employment status between MVC and Green Mountain College(GMC). Close scrutiny of the supporting evidence, however, reveals that it lends little credible support to the presidents claim.

First and foremost, whether the 70 percent of the graduating seniors who informed the placement office can be representative of the overall graduates of MVC is still in doubt. In this argument the president provides no evidence about this. It is entirely possible that those graduates informing the placement office account for a small part of the whole graduates and their qualities or majors are less better; thus finding a full-time job is a little more difficult.

In addition, even assuming that the last year’ graduating seniors informing the placement office typify the overall graduates, spending three months to find full-time job does not indicate that finding jobs is harder for MVC’ graduates. Perhaps the graduates of GMC spend far more time finding worse jobs. Or perhaps the last year’s employment is aberration, and the employment rate of MVC is higher than that of GMC in the past except last year. In other words, without ruling out those possibilities, the author cannot convincingly conclude that the MVC’s employment is worse than that of the GMC.

Moreover, employment in other major field of study maybe indicate that finding jobs for graduates are difficult. However, this maybe mean that the graduates of MVC find much better jobs, for many multinational corporations, such as P&G, one of the top 500 companies, just require nothing about majors but that the graduates is wise enough. If this is the case, it only means that the graduates of MVC make great efforts to find much better job.

Finally, even if finding jobs even worse opportunities is indeed difficult, merely emulating the GMC's action is not rational. There are many factors rather than the help of the college that influence hunting jobs. It is entirely possible that the qualities of graduates of MVC are worse than that of GMC. Or perhaps the lack of other qualities rather than the business or computer skills make graduates hard to find jobs.

In conclusion, the argument is unpersuasive. In order to strengthen it, the president should offer clearer evidence that the finding good jobs are indeed difficult. To further evaluate the argument, the author should offer more evidence that the lack of business and computer knowledge and creating resumes and interviewing skills render finding jobs difficult.