argument第4篇，113题，求指导！

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Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee—a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the advice and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the advice.





In the argument, the author suggests thatall employees in Acme should take the course because of the improvedperformance of two graduates of the course. Well intended the author might be,we cannot hastily evaluate whether this argument will carry out the predictedresult unless some essential questions could be answered.
A foremost question is whether there issome causal relationship between taking the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course andthe reading speed of the first graduate, and the promotion of the secondgraduate. The author did not provide any evidence to show that the firstgraduate has benefited from attending this course. Moreover, the author alsofailed to rule out the possibility that the second graduate's promotion isresult from other factors, such as his industrious work or the amazing talent.So without answering the question, it may be improper to attribute theperformance of the two graduates to the reading course.

Granted that the two graduates have trulybenefited a lot from taking the course, we may still ask whether the twoindividuals are representative of the general. Assuming that the course couldhelp the two individuals to improve their reading speed, and in turn to bringabout a promotion, is it possible that it can contribute to all the employeesas well? Even though the two graduates are representative, we are not surewhether all the employees of Acme are supposed to take the course. Many peopleworking in the company may need not to read a lot of materials, thus the coursemay turn out to be useless.

The last but not the least, we are quiteconfused about the so called small price of the course, is it cheap comparedwith the similar courses provided by other companies? The author did notprovide us with any information about the price of other courses, so we couldnot accept the assertion that the tuition is a small price. Besides, only byweighing advantages the  and thedisadvantages, can we make the final decision of taking the course. Withoutmaking sure that the benefits of the course outweigh the cost, it will be hastyto draw the conclusion.

To sum up, before the author could convinceus that the reading course is worth taking, the critical questions listed aboveshould be answered. He need to make people believe that the course is deedhelpful for all the employees and the tuition is relatively cheap. Or it ishard for us to accept the argument proposed.

竹林中人

The author did not provide any evidence to show that the firstgraduate has benefited from attending this course. Moreover, the author alsofailed to rule out the possibility 诸于这种表达后面，最好能有具体点的举例性质的说明，将evidence具体化，这是比较好。其他的没大问题，加油

lhy9173

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