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In this argument, the
arguer concludes that …doing…will lead to …To
support
the conclusion, the arguer points out
that…In addition, the arguer reasons that…
The argument suffers from several critical
fallacies.
自己应该干吗 根据观察和现象
自己改正 根据因果
In this argument, the arguer recommends that
… should advise … to …To justify
this claim,
the arguer provides the evidence that… Thus…
should follow the study’s
recommendation and …
in order to …
自己尝试新方法 根据预测 和 假想
The
conclusion in this argument is that … can expect
to … by doing … In
support of this prediction,
the arguer claims that … Moreover, the arguer
assumes that
this attempt has … benefits:1)
to; 2)to; 3)to; This argument is fraught with
vague,
oversimplified, and unwarranted
assumptions.
换一个供应商
In this argument,
the arguer advocates that … should … This
recommendation is
based on the observation
that … Meanwhile, the arguer assumes … to be a
better
choice … because … This argument is
problematic for … reasons.
自己应该干吗 根据其他州的情况
In this analysis, the arguer claims that …
should … To substantiate the
conclusion, the
arguer cites the example of … where … In addition,
the arguer
assumes that … This argument is
unconvincing for several critical flaws.
正文:
The major problem with this argument is that
…
Another flaw that weakens this argument is
that. …
In addition, the arguer ignores
several factors that might undermine the argument.
… the arguer fails to consider several other
relevant factors that might
influence …
For instance … since … what’s more … etc.
样本的问题:
When samples are used to make general
claims about a particular group, the
samples
should be close enough in time to the generation
they are used to support, so
that historical
changes will not invalidate the generalization
调查survey 的问题:
The sample of the survey
conducted by the … is vague.
But we are
told nothing about the way the poll was conducted
and how well it
represented the public
opinions..(民意测验)
How many people
participated?
The sample of the survey is
not representative.
数据的问题:
(平均值)The
study revealed, on average, only a small
statistical correlation
between
(实验的数据不可靠) the data of the research is
unconvincing (样本太小)
the sample is too
small to... (光数字没比例)
the ratio of four to
six
there is only figures but no proportion
of the survey 还是ratio?
Insufficient Sample
If the [respondents] only stand for a tiny
proportion of the whole [group], we
should not
be so sure about the conclusion that [the whole
group…]
The arguer commits a fallacy of
hasty generalization.
It was only carried
out in Sun City, but the arguer applies its result
to all the
company’s markets while doesn’t
show us whether Sun City is a representative
market of the whole markets.
实验组的人:性别,年龄,生理特征
副作用 有的病人会对抗生素过敏
错误的类比:
But the problem is that the two
situations are not similar enough to justify the
analogical deduction.
错误的比较:
The
comparison in this argument is incomplete and
selective. The arguer
discovers that …
However, the arguer fails to provide any
information regarding …
respectively …
别的因素:
Furthermore the arguer ignores the
possibility that … may … Unless the arguer
also takes this factor into consideration, the
comparison is unconvincing.
It is very
likely that … and hence… varies significantly.
没有因果:
Confusing causal relation with
correlation
the arguer commits a fallacy of
hasty generalization. Even if the maintenance of
the airline has been improved as a result of
sending its mechanics to the Seminar,
which
is, of course, an unwarranted assumption, it does
not follow that 就算怎样,也
不怎样
Finally, the
arguer hints that … but he fails to analyze the
causes. Is it because…
or because … ?
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其他:
The fact that … does not
necessarily imply that …
First of all, the
argument is based on a hasty generalization.
According to the
cited studies … which is
understandable.
It is very likely that … and
hence… varies significantly.
分析常用:
the
actual amount of time for doing … respectively …
The survey is based on two isolated
examples. The arguer should survey more
hospitals of both types.
How large was
the sample
How many people participated?
What extent do this participators
improve their …speed?
The arguer fails to
indicate the attitude of the residents to the
ABC's performance.
循环假设
The arguer
commits a fallacy of begging the question in
assuming that …
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结尾:
To sum up, the conclusion lacks credibility
because the evidence cited in the
analysis
does not lend strong support to what the arguer
maintains. To strengthen the
argument, the
arguer would have to provide more evidence
concerning the percentage
of the affected
families and their geographical distribution.
In summary, the conclusion reached in this
argument is invalid and misleading.
In
conclusion, the arguer fails to establish a causal
relationship between …To
strengthen the
argument, the arguer would have to provide
evidence that …To better
evaluate the
argument, we would need more information about …
As it stands, the argument is not well
reasoned. To make it logically acceptable,
the
arguer would have to demonstrate that … is the
only condition that …Additionally,
the arguer
must provide evidence to rule out other possible
causes of the …
To conclude, this argument
is not persuasive as it stands.
范文观摩呀!
Argument 37 The following is a memorandum
from the director of personnel to
the
president of Get-Away Airlines.
Get-Away
Airlines should pay to send them to the Quality-
Care Seminar, a two-week
seminar on proper
maintenance procedures. I recommend this seminar
because it is
likely to be a wise investment,
given that the automobile racing industry recently
reported that the performance of its
maintenance crews improved markedly after their
crews had attended the seminar. These
maintenance crews perform many of the same
functions as do our mechanics, including
refueling and repairing engines. The money
we
spend on sending our staff to the seminar will
inevitably lead to improved
maintenance and
thus to greater customer satisfaction along with
greater profits for
our airline.
[建议,看别人好自己也要]
In this argument, the arguer
concludes that sending the mechanics of Get-Away
Airlines to a two-week Quality-Care Seminar on
proper maintenance procedures will
automatically lead to improved maintenance and
to greater customer satisfaction
along with
greater profits for the airline. To support the
conclusion, the arguer points
out that the
performance of the maintenance crews in the
automobile racing industry
improved
markedly after their crews had attended the
seminar. In addition, the arguer
reasons that
since the maintenance crews of the automobile
racing industry and the
mechanics of Get-Away
Airlines perform many of the same functions, the
airlines
will gain similar benefits from the
training program. This argument suffers from
several critical fallacies.
First, the
argument Is based on a false analogy. The arguer
simply assumes that
airplane mechanics and
automobile maintenance crews perform many similar
functions, but he does not provide any
evidence that their functions are indeed
comparable. As we know, the structure,
operation and function of airplanes and those
of automobiles differ conspicuously. It is
true that both the airplane and the
automobile
need refueling and engine maintenance, but even
here there exist
fundamental differences: the
structure and the building materials of each
other's
engines are different, so is the oil
they use. Therefore, even though the two-week
Quality-Care Seminar proved effective in
improving the performance of the
maintenance
crews in the automobile racing industry, there is
no guarantee that it will
work just as well
for airplane mechanics.
Second, the arguer
commits a fallacy of hasty generalization. Even if
the
maintenance of the airline has been
improved as a result of sending its mechanics to
the Seminar, which is, of course, an
unwarranted assumption, it does not follow that
there will be greater profits as well as
greater customer satisfaction for the airline. As
we know, customer satisfaction depends on
several major factors other than good
maintenance of the airplane. For instance,
customers are generally concerned about
the
punctuality, the on-board service, the ticket
price, the luggage handling procedure
and even
the discount, all of which are ignored by the
arguer. Besides, the arguer does
not provide
any solid information concerning how the airplane
can improve its profits.
Unless Get-Away
Airlines can significantly increase its customers
or passengers and
at the same time cut down
its costs, both of which are unknown from this
argument,
there is no guarantee that it will
arguer's recommendation of investing in this
training program as the only way to
increase
customer satisfaction and profits would most
probably turn out to be
ineffective and
misleading.
In conclusion, the arguer fails
to establish a causal relationship between sending
Get-A way's mechanics to the Quality-Care
Seminar and improved maintenance,
greater
customer satisfaction and greater profits for the
airline. To strengthen the
argument, the
arguer would have to provide evidence that
automobile maintenance
and airplane
maintenance are similar in every aspect. To better
evaluate the argument,
we would need
more information about the relationship between
improved
maintenance and greater customer
satisfaction along with greater profits.
Argument 47: The nation of Claria covers a
vast physical area. But despite wide
geographic differences, many citizens are
experiencing rising costs of electricity. A
recent study of household electric costs in
Claria found that families who cooled their
houses with fans alone spent more on
electricity than did families using air
conditioners alone for cooling. However, those
households that reported using both
fans and
air conditioners spent less on electricity than
those households that used
either fans or air
conditioners alone. Thus, the citizens of Claria
should follow the
study's recommendation and
use both air conditioners and fans in order to
save money
on electricity.
[建议,根据不科学调查]
In this argument, the arguer recommends that
Claria should advise its citizens to
install
both air conditioners and fans for cooling in
order to reduce the cost of
electricity. To
justify this claim, the arguer provides the
evidence that many citizens
of Claria suffer
from the rising costs of electricity. In addition,
he cites the result of a
recent study that
using fans alone costs more than using air
conditioners alone, and
that using both air
conditioners and fans costs less than either using
fans or air
conditioners alone. A careful
examination of this argument would reveal how
groundless the conclusion is.
In the
first place, the arguer fails to take into account
the geographical factors in
the analysis.
While we are informed that there are wide
geographical differences in
the nation of
Claria, and that many citizens are experiencing
rising costs of electricity,
the arguer fails
to make clear the exact number of those citizens
or their percentage in
the national
population, as well as the geographical
distribution of these citizens. If
only a
small portion of the whole population are
experiencing the rising costs of
electricity
while most families do not have similar
experience, then the reason might
be that the
former do not use electricity sparingly. In this
case, the rising costs of
those families have
nothing to do with what kind of electric appliance
they use to cool
their houses. Or if only
families living in hot areas are spending more
money on
cooling, then it is unwise to require
citizens living in temperate and frigid zones to
install both fans and air conditioners. In the
absence of all this information, it is
impossible for us to evaluate the recommended
policy that is intended to help every
household nationwide to reduce their
electricity cost.
In the second place, the
comparison in this argument is incomplete and
selective.
The arguer discovers that
using fans alone is more cost effective than using
air
conditioners alone, and that using both
fans and air conditioners are the least
expensive way of cooling. However, the arguer
fails to provide any information
regarding the
actual amount of time for using, respectively,
fans alone, air
conditioners alone, and both
fans and air conditioners in those three groups of
surveyed families. It is very likely that
these three groups of families are located in
three very different climatic regions of
Claria, and hence the amount of days of the
year during which they need to cool their
houses varies significantly. Families living
in cooler areas of the nation certainly cool
their houses for fewer hours and hence use
less electricity than families living in hot
areas, no matter what cooling appliance they
use. Unless we are certain that the surveyed
families live in the same climatic region,
or
that they need to cool their houses for the same
amount of hours in the same year
although they
live in different regions, which is very unlikely,
we have every reason
to doubt the
trustworthiness of this comparative study.
Furthermore, the arguer
ignores the
possibility that the families who are spending
more on electricity may be
using more
electricity for purposes other-than cooling.
Unless the arguer also takes
this factor into
consideration, the comparison is unconvincing.
To sum up, the conclusion lacks credibility
because the evidence cited in the
analysis
does not lend strong support to what the arguer
maintains. To strengthen the
argument, the
arguer would have to provide more evidence
concerning the percentage
of the affected
families and their geographical distribution. To
better evaluate the
argument, we would need
more information regarding the electric expense
relevant to
the actual amount of time for
cooling among, respectively, the three groups of
households and the amount of electricity used
for other purposes in all three groups of
families under survey.
Argument 57: The
following appeared in a letter from a department
chairperson to the
president of Pierce
University.
town, reveal that both mate
and female professors are happier living in small
towns
when their spouses are also employed in
the same geographic area. Therefore, in the
interest of attracting the most gifted
teachers and researchers to our faculty and
improving the morale of our entire staff, we
at Pierce University should offer
employment
to the spouse of each new faculty member we hire.
Although we cannot
expect all offers to be
accepted or to be viewed as an ideal job offer,
the money
invested in this effort will clearly
be well spent because, if their spouses have a
chance of employment, new professors will be
more likely to accept our offers.
[建议,看人家好自己也要]
In this analysis, the arguer
claims that Pierce University should offer
employment to the spouse of each new faculty
member that they hire. To substantiate
the
conclusion, the arguer cites the example of
Bronston College where professors
prefer to
have their spouse employed in the same
geographical area. In addition, the
arguer
assumes that this offer of a possible job for
their spouse on the campus, no
matter whether
it will be accepted, is the only factor that new
professors consider in
deciding whether to
accept a university position. This argument is
unconvincing for
several critical flaws.
First of all, the argument is based on a hasty
generalization . According to the
cited
studies, professors at Bronston College are
happier living in small towns when
their
spouses are also employed in the local area than
when their spouses work in
distant areas,
which is understandable. This fact tells very
little about what actual
conditions the
professors often consider as important when they
choose where to work.
Even if we accept the
arguer's assumption that whether their spouse can
find a job in
the local area is the only
important question that new professors consider
when they
decide whether to accept an offer in
a university situated in a small town, the
arguer's
recommendation is still unconvincing.
Only when the offer of employment to the
spouse is regarded as an ideal one and
therefore accepted is it likely that the professor
will consider accepting the university's
offer. Consequently, it is unwarranted to
assume that new professors will accept
Pierce's offer whether their spouse can find
satisfactory employment in the local area.
In addition, the arguer fails to consider
several other relevant factors that may
influence new professors' decision. For
instance, since Pierce's location is not ideal,
the pay it offers should be high enough to be
attractive. New gifted professors are also
concerned about the position they can have and
the courses they are supposed to teach
in the
new university. What's more, what researchers care
most about might be the
university's research
conditions such as laboratory equipments, adequate
research
funds, etc.
Finally, the arguer
hints that the morale of Pierce's entire staff is
low, but he fails
to analyze the causes. Is it
because the management of the university is poor,
or
because the pay is too low, or because the
local area suffers from economic
depression,
or because the local environment is severely
damaged by industrial
pollution? Under these
circumstances, offering employment to the spouse
would be
ineffective at all for the purpose of
attracting more new professors. Furthermore, if
these problems do exist, even if Pierce
succeeds in hiring many of the most gifted
teachers and researchers of the country, the
general morale of the whole faculty would
remain low.
As it stands, the
argument is not well reasoned. To make it
logically acceptable,
the arguer would have to
demonstrate that an offer of employment to the
spouse is the
only condition that new
professors consider on accepting Pierce's offer.
Additionally,
the arguer must provide evidence
to rule out other possible causes of the low staff
morale at the university.
Argument 67: The
following is a memorandum written by the director
of personnel to
the president of the Cedar
Corporation.
our employee cafeteria next
year. It is the second most expensive caterer in
the city.
In addition, its prices have risen
in each of the last three years, and it refuses to
provide meals for people on special diets.
Just last month three employees complained
to
me that they no longer eat in the cafeteria
because they find the experience
unbearable.
Our company should instead hire Discount Foods.
Discount is a
family-owned local company and
it offers a varied menu of fish and poultry. I
recently tasted a sample lunch at one of the
many companies that Discount serves and
it was
delicious—an indication that hiring Discount will
lead to improved employee
satisfaction.
[建议,更换供应商]
In this argument, the arguer
advocates that the Cedar Corporation should hire
Discount Foods, a family-owned local company
that offers a varied menu of fish and
poultry,
instead of the Good-Taste Company, the present
supplier of food in Cedar's
employee
cafeteria. This recommendation is based on the
observation that the
Good-Taste is expensive,
that its prices have kept rising, that it does not
serve special
diets, and that three employees
complained about it. Meanwhile, the arguer assumes
Discount to be a better choice for Cedar
because a sample lunch of this company that
the arguer happened to taste was delicious.
This argument is problematic for two
reasons.
The major problem with this argument is that
the arguer fails to convince us that
Cedar's
present supplier the Good-Taste should be fired.
First, the fact that the
Good-Taste is the
second most expensive caterer in the city may be
due to its better
foods, quality service and
high reputation in this industry. Second, the fact
that its
prices have been rising for the last
three years may be due to nationwide inflation or
the rising cost in the food industry. Third,
the fact that Good-Taste refuses to serve
special diets does not indicate that it cannot
meet the needs of Cedar Corporation
unless the arguer can demonstrate that
Good-Taste served special diets at first and
now it refuses to do so, hence disappointing
Cedar's employees, and that many or
most of
Cedar's employees are on special diets. Finally,
the arguer fails to explain
why three
employees complained, which makes it impossible
for us to evaluate the
overall service of
Good-Taste. Maybe these three people are those few
on special
diets. Even if they have every
reason to complain about the foods or service of
the
supplier on a certain day, these three
people's opinion lacks the necessary
representativeness based on which we can make
any general judgment concerning the
overall
performance of Good-Taste.
Another point
worth considering is the arguer's hasty
generalization. We are
informed that Discount
serves fish and poultry, but we do not know
whether Cedar's
employees all prefer this
limited menu. We can believe that one sample lunch
that the
arguer happened to taste was indeed
delicious, but based on this slim information, we
can never evaluate the overall performance of
Discount.
To conclude, this argument is not
persuasive as it stands. Before we accept the
conclusion, the arguer must present more facts
that Good-Taste has indeed failed to
meet the
requirements of Cedar Corporation. To solidify the
argument, the arguer
would have to produce
more evidence concerning the foods and service of
Discount
and how they can better meet the
needs of Cedar's employees.
Argument 77: The
following is a recommendation from the dean at
Foley College, a
small liberal arts college,
to the president of the college.
after
graduation, Foley College should attempt to
increase enrollment by promising to
find its
students jobs after they graduate. Many
administrators feel that this strategy is
a
way for Foley to compete against larger and more
prestigious schools and to
encourage students
to begin preparing for careers as soon as they
enter college.
Furthermore, a student who must
choose a career path within his or her first year
of
college and who is guaranteed a job after
graduation is more likely to successfully
complete the coursework that will prepare him
or her for the future.
[建议,根据不科学假想]
The
conclusion in this argument is that Foley College
can expect to increase
enrollment by promising
to find jobs for students after their graduation.
In support of
this prediction, the arguer
claims that college-bound students are
increasingly
concerned about job prospects
after graduation. Moreover, the arguer assumes
that
this attempt has three benefits: (1) to
enable Foley to compete with more famous
schools; (2) to encourage students to
start career preparation early; (3) to encourage
students to complete their coursework. This
argument is fraught with vague,
oversimplified
and unwarranted assumptions.
One major
assumption in short of legitimacy is the causal
relationship claimed
between college-bound
students' increasing concern about job prospects
after
graduation and their expectation on the
university to find jobs for them. Students'
increasing concern about job prospects may
mean that when they choose which
university to
go to they prefer those universities that can
offer the majors most likely
to lead to more
job opportunities and higher income after
graduation. They may also
be more interested
in prestigious universities because their students
are more
competitive and more welcomed in the
job market. As is known to everyone, in a
market economy, promising to find jobs for
students is impractical and hence rather
doubtful. This strategy may prove misleading
and counterproductive in the end.
Instead of
promising jobs to students, Foley College should
devote its resources and
efforts to offering
more majors with good job prospects as well as
attracting more
prestigious professors to
enhance its reputation.
In addition, the
conclusion is based on a gratuitous assumption
that promising
students jobs will make
students more conscious in their study. This,
however, is
unwarranted. When students do not
have to worry about their employment after
graduation, they feel no pressure in their
study; as a result, they will become more
passive and dependent and gradually lose the
initiative to improve themselves.
Although it
is more likely that they will complete their
coursework, but when they
graduate, no company
would like to employ them. By then the
university's promise
will turn out to be
meaningless.
In summary, the conclusion
reached in this argument is invalid and
misleading.
To make the argument more
convincing, the arguer would have to prove that
college-bound students are most concerned
about the promise of jobs after graduation
and
that Foley College can keep its promise in the
end. Moreover, I would suspend
my judgment
about the credibility of the recommendation until
the arguer can provide
concrete evidence that
promising students jobs can actually encourage
them to work
harder in their study. Otherwise,
the arguer is simply begging the question
throughout
the argument.
even though the
two-week Quality-Care Seminar proved effective in
improving
the performance of the maintenance
crews in the automobile racing industry, there is
no guarantee that it will work just as well
for airplane mechanics.
Even if the
maintenance of the airline has been improved as a
result of sending
its mechanics to the
Seminar, which is, of course, an unwarranted
assumption, it does
not follow that
there will be greater profits as well as greater
customer satisfaction for
the airline.