AA106 马上要考了。。。有没有好心人帮忙看看

amandau

请各位CDer帮忙看看，

我主要想知道模板植入得自不自然，举的例子合不合适。。。
如果有好心人有时间，可不可以详细帮我润色润色句子。。。

马上就考了。。有点急。。。

谢谢 ：>

106. The following appeared as part of a business plan by the Capital Idea Investment firm.
“Currently more and more books are becoming available in electronic form — either free of charge on the Internet or for a very low price per book on CD-ROM.* People who would not pay bookstore prices will now have access to whatever book they want from their home or work computers. Consequently, literary classics are likely to be read more widely than ever before: 72 percent of those responding to a recent online survey said they would read books in electronic form, and 81 percent said they believed that reading classic works was important. Given this newly developing market, we should invest in E-Classics, a new company that sells electronic versions of literary classics.”
*A CD-ROM is a small portable disc capable of storing relatively large amounts of data that can be read by a computer.



In this argument, Capital Idea Investment Firm draws the conclusion that it is valuable to invest in company E-Classics. Although this argument appears to be somewhat convincing at first glance, it is in fact ill-conceived because this argument is base on a dubious survey and some hasty assumptions about the market of readers. Detailed scrutiny displayed below would reveal how illogical this conclusion is.

To begin with, the author citied a survey concerning to support that literary classics are suppose to be enjoy a expanding readership. However this survey methodology does not provide complete information in two respects: We are not informed whether people who do not respond the survey prefer electronic versions. Presumably, most of those respondents are classics fans who frequently read classics before e-version exited. We nor informed the size of respondents. If only 100 people reply, then the figure "72%" and "80%" seems to be meaningless to lend a reliable results. Absent ample information, it is therefore unwarranted to draw any conclusion.

Moreover, the author derive the deduction that increasingly many people will read classics works in electronic form from the fact that their price is low. Here, the author unfairly assume price accounts for a primary factor when a reader purchase a book. If the majority consider portability, unfortunately the shortcoming of e-books since any laptops is much heavier than a 300-page book, much more crucial than price, then the sale of E-Classic will not surge. Also, even a large amount of people favor e-books, we should examine whether they have time to browse Internet or read CD-ROMs. In short, it is presumptuous to conclude that the customers base of E-Classics is large.

In addition, The conclusion relies upon an another assumption that E-Classic will actually make profit on the ground of a developing market of e-classic readers. Nevertheless, there is no guarantee that this is the case, nor does the author cite any evidence to substantiate this assumption. It is entirely possible that the the price of E-books is too low, many of them are even free of charge, to offset the cost. Also too often than not e-books is very easily to copy. Thus, in the long term, many regular reader will turn to read piracy, leading Capital Idea loss their costumers and inevitably face to a copyright lawsuit. Therefore, given these possible scenarios, author's reasoning proves nothing about the mentioned investment is wise.

In conclusion, this argument is not compelling as it stands. To strengthen the conclusion the author would have to make it clear that the size of sample is actually significant, that people who realize reading classics is important actually prefer electronic version, and that E-Classic is able to make profit. Only with more consideration of every possibilities could this argument become more persuasive.

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whenusmile

LL写的不错。。但是发现有些地方有点费解和语法错误。