『飛翔的心 追尋着夢』

In this argument, the author drew conclusion that one company should use the service of Dickens-seminars- to improve the company's reputation among customers.  the author cites Mega-Publishing,Inc. as the evidence to support this conclusion- a company whose sales increased after their employees attended Dicken's seminars. After close examination of this argument, however, I found the author's conclusion is unconvincing and not persuasive.

A threshold problem with this argument involves the survey.  Since we are not informed of the number of respondents participating in this survey, it is possible that those employees surveyed are not statistically trivial and thus cannot represent all employees in Mega-Publishing Inc. Therefore, the author's assertion that employees in Mega-Publishing Inc. generally lack interpersonal skills is unwarranted.

Even if the arguer provides credible evidence suggesting that the Mega-Publishing Inc. needed to send their employees to Dicens Academy's seminars, this argument contains no evidence whatsoever that those seminars are the only method that any company can enhance their employees' interpersonal abilities. Lacking this evidence, it is highly possible that a company, Mega-Publishing Inc. or the company of interest in this argument can just invite some experts from outside who have experience with the teaching of interpersonal skills to instruct their employees on how to communicate with customers. Therefore, without considering and ruling out this possibility, the arguer cannot conclude that the company should hire Dickens for the benefits of enhancing their employees' communication skills.

In addition, just because Mega has increased their sales after their employees attended those seminars do not necessarily mean that customer's satisfaction with Mega has increased. Perhaps it is because Mega has recently employed better management teams, or because Mega's competitors in the markets have suffered from bankruptcy.

Last but not least, even if Mega's success is due solely to Darkens' seminars, the argument rests on a false analogy between Mega and the company Dicken courted. Since no evidence is provided in this argument to substantiate this assumption, Dickeny's interested company might not succeed in improving their employees' interpersonal skills at all even the company agree to have their employees attended Dicken's seminars.

In the final analysis, this argument is not logically acceptable. The use of Mega by the author as evidence to support his/her conclusion is not appropriate. To strengthen the conclusion, the author needs to provide concrete evidence that the survey conducted in Mega is statistically reliable, that Dicken's seminars solely contributed to the enhancement of its employees' interpersonal skills, and that increase in Mega's sales are only attributed to the good communication skills of its employees. To better evaluate this argument, we need more information about the similarities and differences between Dicken's interested company and Mega.

In this argument, the arguer recommends that the  Mason Elementary should reduce physical education classes and gymnasium space for class-room space in order to improve  students' reading abilities. To support this recommendation, the arguer provides evidence that the school is short of classroom space. Close examination of this argument, however, reveals that this argument is logically flawed as it stands.

First of all, the arguer unfairly suggests that a shortage of classroom space leads to a decrease in the number of reading classes in Mason Elementary. Yet no evidence is contained in this argument to prove that this is the case. Although the shortage of available classroom probably limits the free arrangements of reading classes for students, the Mason Elementary may already have sufficient space for reading classes Even if the school does not have enough spaces for reading classes, it is entirely possible that the reason why reading classes decrease is that they do not have enough qualified and experienced teachers for those reading classes. Therefore, without considering and ruling out other factors for the decrease of the number of reading classes , the arguer cannot convince me on his conclusion.

Another assumption this argument depends on is that converting the gymnasium to class-room space and replacing some of physical education classes with reading classes will enhance the reading abilities of  Mason Elementary students. This assumption is also problematic because the arguer fails to consider the degree of students' willingness to take those increased reading classes  Absent such evidence, it is highly possible that students will feel unhappy to take additional reading classes and thus are not attentive to those classes. Also, less physical education classes and reduced space gymnasium will probably even worsen the student's interests in reading because they feel their legitimate "relax" time are deprived of by the school. Therefore, the arguer should consider those factors to bolster his/her recommendation.

In conclusion, this argument is unconvincing and unpersuasive. To strengthen this argument, the arguer needs to provide better evidence that the shortage of classroom space in Mason Elementary. is the sole factor for the reducing reading classes. In addition, to better evaluate this argument, we need more information about the student's reactions and responses to the proposal of shrinking the gymnasium to give way to reading classes space and reducing the number of physical education classes.