Issue50 & Argument200 小鸡快跑作文组

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TOPIC: ISSUE50 - "In order to improvethe quality of instruction at the college and university level, all facultyshould be required to spend time working outside the academic world inprofessions relevant to the courses they teach."
WORDS: 597          TIME: 0:45:00          DATE: 2007-3-6

Should all faculty spend time workingoutside the world of academy in professions which is relevant to the coursesthey teach, as the speaker claims? I concede that many disciplines shouldcontract our society much more than ever before, along with the rapiddevelopment of economy and technology. However, the speaker unnecessarilyextends its assertion to all the circumstances.

It is the source that can inspire thefaculty who teach at college and university. A great number of disciplinesdevelop closely with certain problems of modern society, thus there is the needto require the teachers to work outside the college or university to perceiveand seek what is happening in the society, which will be significantly conduciveto the courses they teach. For supporting examples, one need look no furtherthan the discipline of automobile. If the teachers, who are greatly proficientin the mechanism of automobile, know little about the social need and thefashion style in modern society, we can imagine what the situation is in theclasses they are in charge of. The students will be tired of the boringcontents about the courses and their major due to their little knowledge aboutthe application in human daily life and the background of their major. Thus,the faculty who are of the disciplines which is relevant to the society shouldbe required to spend time working outside the college and university in orderto improve the quality of instruction.

Society can supply a multitude of problemsfor the faculty’s research which can conducive to instruction for theirstudents’ career choices. To solve the difficulty in our reality is animportant aspect of the destination of research; it is crucial to keep pacewith the modern society. Consider, the endeavor of civil engineering, forinstance. The significant achievement of the civil engineering research ispertinent to the nowadays world, which can help human living more convenientlyand comfortably. When the projects encounter such some difficult problems thatno one have experience ever before, they will resort to the teachers who areexperts in engineering for guidance. While the teachers deal with the difficultproblems, they also realize what the most burning issues in the present time.Therefore, they may be more sensible to choose a practicable task to work on inthe later work, and they can give feasible advice about their choice of work.


However, when it comes to otherdisciplines, such as history, pure mathematics and so forth, which are notrelevant to the society due to the reason of ages and social conditions, thereis no need to for college and university to require the faculty from thesekinds of disciplines to work outside the academic world.

As for pure mathematics, it is a strikinginstance to illustrate that the requirement for the faculty to work outside theacademic world is not necessary. Pure mathematics is not apparently connectedwith our society, especially at the applicable aspect. If we require all theteachers and the assistants to work outside the academic world, they cannotfind a suitable job for their living. Though the research of pure mathematicsis important for our country development in the future and it can make adequatepreparation for the future problems, it is the fact that there are no such jobsfor them to apply the abstract and abstruseknowledge in the reality of life. If we force them to find a job outside thecollege and university, they will have no enough time to spend on the researchand the course they teach, which will produce negative effects on the qualityof teaching at the college and university.

Another example involves in the disciplineof history, a discipline which is relevant to the past time and period. It iseasy to predict for us there is no useful source for the faculty who works atthe period of the Renaissance which is far away from the reality of our world.It is absurd to require them to work outside the college and university. Theyshould concentrate on the evidences of the famous artist and the profoundpainters who lived in the Renaissance. Because the advantage of them is toresearch the history but not work outside the academic world, even though thework is relevant to the research. Only through this way can the quality ofinstruction be improved and our society advance rapidly.

To sum up, the assertion of the speaker isnot correct in all cases, except the disciplines which are not greatlyconnected with our time or need of the modern society. On balance I agree withthe assertion of the speaker.


TOPIC: ARGUMENT200 - Statistics collectedfrom dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint whilevisiting the dentist. This evidence suggests that men are more likely to bedistressed about having dental work done than women are. Thus, dentists whoadvertise to attract patients should target the male consumer and emphasizeboth the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity oftheir staff to nervous or suffering patients.
WORDS: 352         TIME: 0:30:00          DATE: 2007-3-6

The author concludes that dentists who advertiseshould target the male consumer and emphasize their staff's sensitivity tonervous or suffering patients. To justify the conclusion, the author presents astatistical report which show that men is more likely to be faint when theyvisit the dentist. However, the assumptions about the statistics and therecommendation for the dentist are dubious, rendering it unpersuasive as itstands.

First of all, the author fails to provideconvincing information about the statistics. Thus, there are many possibilitiesabout the subject of the survey. Perhaps, there are far more men who see thedentist than women Or perhaps, the dentists who have been covered by thestatistics are not popular for women patients, leading to the result than threetimes more men than women faint while visiting the dentist.. Moreover, theauthor overlooks the information about the seriousness of the illness. Thus,lacking evidence about the makeup and the size of the statistics, we cannotaccept the reliability about the results.

Next point, even though the results arecorrect, that is there are more men than women faint while visiting thedentist. Yet, there is no persuasive evidence that men are more likely to bestressed about having dental work done. It is entirely likely that when mencome into the room, they will be faint. But they will calm down soon when theyreceive the dentist work. It is also likely that women have other symptoms whenthey behave the nervous feelings, the statistics, nevertheless, does not takeinto account other sorts of answers.

Last but not least, the author's assumptionabout the recommendation for the advertisement to attract patients is not wellreasoned due to scant evidence to support. There is no evidence that there aremore man who need to visit dentist than women. Thus, it is possible that eventhough the advertisement is done as the recommendation assumes, the number ofmen patients does not increase as the author assumes. And, the number of womenpatients will get down due to the advertisement’s emphasis on the men patients.

To sum up, the argument is indeed logicalunsound with the existing statistics. To better assess it, the author shoulddemonstrate more information that whether the results of statistics canrepresent all of situations of the patients, and that whether the advertisementwill bring more patients as author assumes.