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TOPIC: ARGUMENT177 - The following is aletter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.

"Membership in OakCity's Civic Club-a club whose primaryobjective is to discuss local issues-should continue to be restricted to peoplewho live in Oak City. People who work in Oak Citybut who live elsewhere cannot truly understand the business and politics of thecity. It is important to restrict membership to city residents because onlyresidents pay city taxes and therefore only residents understand how the moneycould best be used to improve the city. At any rate, restricting membership inthis way is unlikely to disappoint many of the nonresidents employed in Oak City,since neighboring Elm City's Civic Club has always had an open membershippolicy, and only twenty-five nonresidents have joined Elm City'sClub in the last ten years."
WORDS: 443          TIME: 00:30:00          DATE: 2008-4-6上午 12:59:27

The author recommends that membership in Oak City'sCivic Club should continue to be restricted to their residents. The author alsoconcludes that such a policy is unlikely to disappoint many people who are justemployed in Oak City by a reference to a nearby city's relatedsituation. After a careful examination, I find some logic flaws so that make itunconvincing as it stands.

To begin with, the author claims that thosewho just work in Oak City cannot trulyunderstand the business and politics of the city. However, the author providesnot any evidence to support his/her claim. Perhaps those employees reallyconcern about the business and politics of Oak, they often purchase in theshopping mall, go to see a film when after work, even they have a decision tobuy houses here. It is entirely possible that those employees spend more in Oakthan the residents here. If the author cannot consider these possibilities,he/she would not draw such a hasty conclusion that people who live elsewherework in Oak do not realize the business and politics here.

Besides, the author also fails to provide adetailed data about the how many taxes residents in Oak would pay every yearbecause I need to know whether residents' taxes occupied a main part in the alltaxes which Oak City gain every year. Without such adetailed data, It is hardly to convince us that Membership in Oak City'sCivic Club needs to continue its policy. Maybe it should reform the policy andrestrict to those who are truly attractive to the city's taxes, other thanresidents.

Thirdly, in order to explain that such apolicy will not be disappoint to those who just work in the Oak, they refer toa nearby city Elm's Civic Club's data. However, the author overlooks to providesome evidences which can persuade us that Oak and Elm can be comparable.Perhaps Elm is a relatively under-developed city so that it cannot absorb a lotof employees to work there, while Oak may be a relative developed city thus itattract huge amount of employees to just work there. It appears reasonable,therefore, it will be unsuccessful to convince us if the author lacks rulingout that Oak and Elm are comparable.

In sum, the author brings a well-presented,but not well-reasoned recommendation. To bolster it, author should provide someevidences to confirm whether nonresidents employed consume in Oak and whetherresidents' taxes occupied a main part in the whole city's. To better improve, Iwould also need to know that Oak and Elm are comparable so that Oak City'sCivic Club can take reference to Elm Club's situation.