劉文勇GRE寫作Argument題庫 Day 137

Day 137 While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day

While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

【本題與Day 135相似，不同之處：本題還可以針對“數(shù)字與比例不一定等價”進行反駁，在沒有給出兩個地區(qū)教師總?cè)藬?shù)的情況下，86 percent和less than 25 percent具有參考意義嗎？】

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其他可參考Day 135的思考路徑