Sample Topic:
The following appeared in a popular health and fitness magazine.
“A ten-year study of a group of 552 men from Elysia showed that long-term consumption of caffeinated black tea was associated with a much lower risk of stroke. Of these men, those who drank more than three cups of black tea a day had a 70 percent lower risk of stroke than those who drank no tea. These results suggest that health-conscious people should consume at least three cups of black tea a day, beginning early in life.”
首先看看官方給出來的一些提示：
Strategies for this topic：This argument cites the results of a ten-year study of men from Elysia to draw a very broad and general conclusion that all “health-conscious people” should drink at least three cups of black tea a day, beginning at an early age.
In developing your analysis of the argument, you should ask yourself whether the study results actually support the general conclusion. In particular, you might want to consider such questions as the following:
1. Is the observed association between tea drinking and reduced stroke risk necessarily a causal relationship, as the argument assumes?
2. Could there be other factors, such as diet and/or exercise that might account for the observed reduction in stroke risk?
3. Were the men in the study at high risk of having a stroke to begin with?
4. Had the men in the study drunk three cups of caffeinated black tea a day, beginning early in life?
5. Would the results of a day of men from Elysia be necessarily applicable to a wider population ------ that is, to women and to people who are not from Elysia?
6. Is a ten-year study of this kind long enough to yield an accurate measure of the reduction in stroke risk?
7. Would drinking one or two cups of caffeinated black tea a day have the same presumed benefit as drinking three cups of the tea a day?
8. Are there other health risks associated with drinking three cups of caffeinated black tea, especially for the young?
Considering possible answers to questions such as these will help you identify several weakness in the argument’s line of reasoning. You can then develop each of these points in your critique of the argument.
可以看出實(shí)際上一個(gè)題目的設(shè)定是可以“漏洞百出”的，遠(yuǎn)不是那么容易就給寫exhaustive了，如果自己能獨(dú)立提出這些問題，你的argument就不會(huì)千人一面，而你的展開和思考就體現(xiàn)自己獨(dú)特的一面。下面看文章：
The following appeared in a popular health and fitness magazine.
“A ten-year study of a group of 552 men from Elysia showed that long-term consumption of caffeinated black tea was associated with a much lower risk of stroke. Of these men, those who drank more than three cups of black tea a day had a 70 percent lower risk of stroke than those who drank no tea. These results suggest that health-conscious people should consume at least three cups of black tea a day, beginning early in life.”
首先看看官方給出來的一些提示：
Strategies for this topic：This argument cites the results of a ten-year study of men from Elysia to draw a very broad and general conclusion that all “health-conscious people” should drink at least three cups of black tea a day, beginning at an early age.
In developing your analysis of the argument, you should ask yourself whether the study results actually support the general conclusion. In particular, you might want to consider such questions as the following:
1. Is the observed association between tea drinking and reduced stroke risk necessarily a causal relationship, as the argument assumes?
2. Could there be other factors, such as diet and/or exercise that might account for the observed reduction in stroke risk?
3. Were the men in the study at high risk of having a stroke to begin with?
4. Had the men in the study drunk three cups of caffeinated black tea a day, beginning early in life?
5. Would the results of a day of men from Elysia be necessarily applicable to a wider population ------ that is, to women and to people who are not from Elysia?
6. Is a ten-year study of this kind long enough to yield an accurate measure of the reduction in stroke risk?
7. Would drinking one or two cups of caffeinated black tea a day have the same presumed benefit as drinking three cups of the tea a day?
8. Are there other health risks associated with drinking three cups of caffeinated black tea, especially for the young?
Considering possible answers to questions such as these will help you identify several weakness in the argument’s line of reasoning. You can then develop each of these points in your critique of the argument.
可以看出實(shí)際上一個(gè)題目的設(shè)定是可以“漏洞百出”的，遠(yuǎn)不是那么容易就給寫exhaustive了，如果自己能獨(dú)立提出這些問題，你的argument就不會(huì)千人一面，而你的展開和思考就體現(xiàn)自己獨(dú)特的一面。下面看文章：