今日换口味 Argument137求拍

yueshengding

While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.

　　Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

In the argument above, the author cliams that all teachers in high schools should assign homwork no more than twice a week. And several reasons have been provided including that students performs better in Marlee than Sanlee ,accompanied with the phenomenon that teachers in Sanlee reports more times of homework than Marlee. However, this suggestions seems to be based on some unconvincing assumptions.
First of all, the speaker migh assumpts that students' performance has a casual relationship with the frequency of homework. It is true that students in Marlee have homework with less frequency but performs better, there are maybe other factors determines the difference in grades of students in two districts. For instance, the level of edcuation accounts a lot in students' performance, and differences of government policy, critism of assessment of performance or students' attitude toward study all determines the gaps between the two district.  Addtionally, the author have not offered the respective total amount of homework assign each time in Sanlee and Marlee thus we cannot determine the total amount of homework are truly different. So, the assumption that the differences in frequency of homework determines the gaps of two cities is ungrounded.

Granted that the relationship between frequency of homework and performance of students truly exists, the assumption that students' grade and likelihood to repeat a year of school indicates performance is open to doubt. As we all know, education is the way to promote level of knowledge of students both in science and moral ethos. But the grade and likelihood to repeat a year of school only indicates the education level in science whereas students' progress morally or psychologically are often overlooked if we judged only by the grades.

Futhermore,   we should also take into carefully consideration the assumptions that homework of no more than twice a week is the critical frequency that is helpful for improvement of students. And the two district may be not representive of the whole states. Consequently, we cannot assume that assignment of homework no more than twice a week would enhance the whole level of education in Attra.

To sum, the conclusion seems to be hastily attained because of the failure of several assumptions. The author should provide us with information about the relationship between students' performance and the frequency of homework as well as other factors influencing the difference between the two districts. Furthermore, the assumptions that grades and likelihood to repeat a year of school indicates the level of education is cast doubt on.

普渡哥

overal写的不错。

yueshengding

普渡哥 发表于 2013-5-29 10:56
overal写的不错。

哇，谢谢普度哥鼓励啊，后天就上考场了，还有今晚明晚，我就连续写了二十来天了