劉文勇GRE寫(xiě)作Argument題庫(kù) Day 74

Day 74 The president of Grove College has recommended that the college abandonits century-old tradition of all-female education and begin admitting men

The president of Grove College has recommended that the college abandon its century-old tradition of all-female education and begin admitting men. Pointing to other all-female colleges that experienced an increase in applications after adopting coeducation, the president argues that coeducation would lead to a significant increase in applications and enrollment. However, the director of the alumnae association opposes the plan. Arguing that all-female education is essential to the very identity of the college, the director cites annual surveys of incoming students in which these students say that the school's all-female status was the primary reason they selected Grove. The director also points to a survey of Grove alumnae in which a majority of respondents strongly favored keeping the college all female.

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation 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 recommendation.

五問(wèn)：

（1）大家應(yīng)該注意到，原文以“However, the director of the alumnae association opposes the plan”作為分隔，前面部分是“ The president of Grove College”的觀(guān)點(diǎn)，后半部分是“the director of the alumnae association”的觀(guān)點(diǎn)。這并不是一個(gè)只有唯一論點(diǎn)的題目，原文分別描述了兩個(gè)方面的問(wèn)題，因此形成前后兩個(gè)相對(duì)立的觀(guān)點(diǎn)的過(guò)程是不是都必須被討論到呢？答案是肯定的。“Pointing to other all-female colleges that experienced an increase in applications after adopting coeducation”和“the director cites annual surveys of incoming students in which these students say that the school's all-female status was the primary reason they selected Grove. The director also points to a survey of Grove alumnae in which a majority of respondents strongly favored keeping the college all female”是事實(shí)，值得反駁嗎？

（2）其他學(xué)校的報(bào)名人數(shù)增加一定是由于采取了男女同校這一政策嗎？是否可能是其他因素導(dǎo)致的？例如：邀請(qǐng)名師授課、科學(xué)合理地設(shè)置課程、學(xué)校綜合排名高等。

（3）“The president of Grove College”將本校與其他“ all-female colleges”進(jìn)行類(lèi)比，以此來(lái)證明我們應(yīng)該拋棄只收女生的傳統(tǒng)。大家回顧一下：什么樣的類(lèi)比才是好的類(lèi)比？類(lèi)比對(duì)象應(yīng)該具備什么樣的特點(diǎn)才能促使類(lèi)比成立？其他女校和本校的情況真的是一樣的嗎？比如在教學(xué)質(zhì)量、學(xué)校環(huán)境、學(xué)費(fèi)等方面。是否有可能其他女校因?yàn)閳?bào)名率太低而面臨財(cái)政危機(jī)，必須要改革傳統(tǒng)，而 Grove College的報(bào)名率一直很高，因此沒(méi)有必要改革。而且對(duì)其他女校有效果的政策，對(duì)本校來(lái)說(shuō)就一定有效果嗎？

（4）“the director of the alumnae association”以每年的新生調(diào)查和一項(xiàng)校友的調(diào)查為依據(jù)來(lái)證明自己的觀(guān)點(diǎn)。每年的新生調(diào)查樣本具有代表性嗎？樣本數(shù)量是多少？樣本可能有什么偏向性？報(bào)名該校的學(xué)生一般會(huì)傾向于支持該傳統(tǒng)，那沒(méi)有報(bào)名該校的學(xué)生對(duì)該傳統(tǒng)的態(tài)度呢？有沒(méi)有可能男女合校之后，盡管有一部分在校生并不高興，但招生總數(shù)增加了？

（5）對(duì)于 Grove alumnae的調(diào)查是否足夠嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)？校友的話(huà)一定有參考性嗎？她們支持該傳統(tǒng)是否可能是出于對(duì)學(xué)校的感情？當(dāng)時(shí)的情況與現(xiàn)在的情況一樣嗎？對(duì)校友們的調(diào)查是否應(yīng)該左右學(xué)校的決策？學(xué)校做出決策的基本原則是什么？這個(gè)問(wèn)題的回答將會(huì)在多大程度上影響最終的決策？決策的基本原則應(yīng)該是有利于學(xué)校的長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)發(fā)展，所以校友的意見(jiàn)只是一個(gè)參考因素，不是決定因素。