劉文勇GRE寫作Argument題庫 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：

（1）大家應該注意到，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”的觀點，后半部分是“the director of the alumnae association”的觀點。這并不是一個只有唯一論點的題目，原文分別描述了兩個方面的問題，因此形成前后兩個相對立的觀點的過程是不是都必須被討論到呢？答案是肯定的?！癙ointing 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，值得反駁嗎？

（2）其他學校的報名人數(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致的？例如：邀請名師授課、科學合理地設置課程、學校綜合排名高等。

（3）“The president of Grove College”將本校與其他“ all-female colleges”進行類比，以此來證明我們應該拋棄只收女生的傳統(tǒng)。大家回顧一下：什么樣的類比才是好的類比？類比對象應該具備什么樣的特點才能促使類比成立？其他女校和本校的情況真的是一樣的嗎？比如在教學質(zhì)量、學校環(huán)境、學費等方面。是否有可能其他女校因為報名率太低而面臨財政危機，必須要改革傳統(tǒng)，而 Grove College的報名率一直很高，因此沒有必要改革。而且對其他女校有效果的政策，對本校來說就一定有效果嗎？

（4）“the director of the alumnae association”以每年的新生調(diào)查和一項校友的調(diào)查為依據(jù)來證明自己的觀點。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？報名該校的學生一般會傾向于支持該傳統(tǒng)，那沒有報名該校的學生對該傳統(tǒng)的態(tài)度呢？有沒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）對于 Grove alumnae的調(diào)查是否足夠嚴謹？校友的話一定有參考性嗎？她們支持該傳統(tǒng)是否可能是出于對學校的感情？當時的情況與現(xiàn)在的情況一樣嗎？對校友們的調(diào)查是否應該左右學校的決策？學校做出決策的基本原則是什么？這個問題的回答將會在多大程度上影響最終的決策？決策的基本原則應該是有利于學校的長遠發(fā)展，所以校友的意見只是一個參考因素，不是決定因素。