我的心也許是一個遊牧民族

這篇更糟
不知道是因為今天還是很累還是怎樣...我覺得我找不到logic fallacy...都在挑小毛病..>"
145. The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper. "Too much emphasis is placed on the development of reading skills in elementary school. Many students who are discouraged by the lonely activity of reading turn away from schoolwork merely because they are poor readers. But books on audiocassette tape provide an important alternative for students at this crucial slage in their education, one the school board should not reject merely because of the expense involved. After all, many studies attest to the value of allowing students to hear books read aloud; there is even edidence that students whose parents read to them are even more likely to become able readers. Thus, hearing books on tape can only make students more eager to read and to learn. Therefore, the school board should encourage schools to buy books on tape and to use them in elementary education."

In this argument the author asserted that school should but books on tape an use them to improve students' abilities of reading. To justify this conclusion, several evidence are used in the statement. First, many students are pooe readers instead of disliking schoolwork. Second, books on tape can eliminate this situation and improve students' reading ability. After my analysis, however, there are several fallacies existed.

In the first place, the school board can not easily reject the plan which is designed to use books on audiocassette tape as a result of the expense involved. It seems that this plan will absolutely work without any obstacle. There is a fallacy notwithstanding: the school board can reject this plan according to the consideration which may be feasiblilty, time required, and other factors. Therefore, unsufficent information about the operation and convention of the school board will have an significant influence on the following inference.

Moreover, even if many studies attest the value of allowing students to hear books read aloud, it is not clearly specified that how many percent of students will manifestly improve their reading ability and become outstanding readers. Maybe after using this method in a given period, students with poor reading ability still read books tardily as usual. Hence, the author should give more statistics and results of researches to let this setence more presuaive and convincing.

Last but not the least, the relationship between the statement which students hearing tape can more likely become able readers and the one which hearing books make students more eager to learn and read seems strange. The authotr does not give enough information -- the explicit number of students becoming able readers after their parents read to them. In addition, the author use the term "more likely to become able readers" and let this sentence become ambiguous without confidence.

In sum, there are too many unclear statement existed in this argument. To let this argument become more credible, the author should use more statistics to support his/her point of view and complement fallacies in it.