【GRE写作】Argument 精选真题范文(五)

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「Question No. 12」

The brief passage:

Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that

encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their

professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades

in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by 30

percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe

that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student

achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting

jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to

secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of

professors.

题目的逻辑思路特点：连续因果，即上一步的结论是下一步的原因。

Instruction:

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to

evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen

the argument.

Introduction

略

Body

If students’ academic competence has actually increased during the fifteen

years ← evidence, the 30-percent increase in grades truthfully represents their

improved capability rather than inflation as is believed by potential employers.

elaboration →As a matter of fact, since the 15 years has been a long time, it is

likely that there have been multiple generations of students whose scholastic

aptitude has improved.This likelihood refutes the author’s suggestion that

professors assign higher grades in exchange of students’ better evaluation of

their teaching. The author’s suggestion at this point may be rebutted by another

possibility that there have been → a number of outstanding students whose

academic excellence has increased the university’s overall grades ← evidence.

This likely situation also contradicts the inflation of grades alleged by

potential employers.

Even though the increased grades may be inflated as believed, the inflated

grades may not be the reason why Omega graduates have not been as successful at

getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. Instead, there may

be other reasons. For example, it is likely that those Omega graduates who have

not been successful in finding jobs have high expectations of salaries that

cannot be met by employers, rendering themselves unemployed← evidence. It is

also likely that those Omega graduates do not possess abilities that are desired

by potential employers← evidence.

The argument has no information regarding whether Alpha University also has

the system of students’ evaluation of professors. If Alpha University has an

evaluation system analogous to Omega’s← evidence, that Omega graduates have been

less successful in finding employment is not associated with the university’s

evaluation system. As a result, the evaluation system may not be terminated.

The argument provides only information that Omega graduates have been less

likely to find employment and no information that the jobs that have been found

are less good. In fact, Omega graduates may have already found better jobs←

evidence, and as a result, the termination of the evaluation system for the

purpose of finding better jobs is unjustifiable.

The brief passage的reasoning中还有其它的逻辑漏洞

我们在考场上的写作分析其中(重要的)4-5个即可。