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The following is a memo from the business manager of Valu-Mart stores.
'Over 70 percent of the respondents to a recent survey reported that they are required to take more work home with them from the workplace than they were in the past. Since Valu-Mart has not seen impressive sales in its office-supply departments in the past, we should take advantage of this work-at-home trend by increasing at all Valu-Mart stores the stock of home office machines such as printers, small copy machines, paper shredders, and fax machines. We will also increase stock of office supplies such as paper, pens, and staplers. With these changes, our office-supply departments will become the most profitable component of our stores.'
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In this argument the arguer gives a recommendation that our stores should increase stoke of office supplies, in order to make the office-supply component get most profitable. The arguer gives some facts which provides why we should do in this way. Through careful examination, the assumptions of recommendation are unwarranted. There are several fallacies.(感觉对原文中的推理概括的不是很清楚:according to the survey, the valu-mart should increase the strock of office supplies (第一层推理,可以作为第一个批驳点)survey应该是批驳的重点,是否应该提一下?)and the office-supply department will become the most profitable componet of our stores, (第二层推理可以作为第二个批驳点:增加了store是否可以profit?)
First of all, the survey is questionable. The arguer does not provide the details of the survey, which is got when and where这句语法上面是不是有问题? 可否改成: such as when and where it took place. Is the population of the survey too large(small?)? Are the samples of the survey random and representative? Are the respondents inclined to take more work home than any others? Perhaps the population is so small such as 10 or even fewer people that the samples are not representative. Or perhaps the respondents of survey like to work home rather than in their office. So when the details are not clear, we could not make a confidence for the survey.
Moreover,even though the survey is representative, the arguer draws a false conclusion from this situation that the trend is not the fact, even if the trend becomes true, the people working home are not certain to buy the office-machines. Perhaps the people have these machines, or perhaps the people don't use these at all. The arguer should make clear about the respondent's work, and ask them whether they need the office supplies. Further, the arguer tells that the Valu-Mart stores has not impressive sales before, we should clarify the reason why the sales are not good. Is the supporters too many in the market ,or has people no need to buy these? Only considering the increasing the stores of the office supplies, let alone the market condition, it is possible that we would lost the share of the market. Therefore, we should take the further survey about the market.感觉这个批驳点说得不是非常清楚,我觉的可以按第二个推理来反驳,increse stores=? profit,之后是不是应该连续展开理由,1,they might prefer to buy these office machines in the special store2,3,等等,你的意思是 users not certain to buy,之后的理由感觉说得有点乱,感觉不是一个中心.
In addition, the profit equals the revenue subtracts the cost. Is the cost increasing with the need of market even if the sales increases? The arguer does not provide the details of other components of the stores. Perhaps other component is more profitable than the office-supply departments. Other component has the better sales and gets more profit. Is the cost of office supplies increasing with the need of market even if the sales increases? If so, the department fails to get more profitable either.这一段批驳的不错,中心突出,看一眼就明白在批驳什么.
In sum, the arguer should provide the details of the survey, and make clear about the respondents' work ,the need of office supplies.Besides, the arguer should clarify the market condition about the office supplies. Lacking the evidence, we can not deduce the conclusion that our office-supply department will become the most profitable hastily.
加强moreover,总体来说很不错
[ Last edited by nsuh on 2005-8-5 at 17:26 ] |
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