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The following appeared in a magazine article on trends and lifestyles.
"In general, people are not as concerned as they were a decade ago about regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses. Walk into the Heart's Delight, a store that started selling organic fruits and vegetables and whole-grain flours in the 1960's, and you will also find a wide selection of cheeses made with high butterfat content. Next door, the owners of the Good Earth Cafe, an old vegetarian restaurant, are still making a modest living, but the owners of the new House of Beef across the street are millionaires."
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
Response:
The author concludes that generally people nowdays are not as much concerned about regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses as they were a decade ago. Stated in this way the argument manipulates facts and conveys a distorted view of the situation. Also, the argument fails to take into account several factors, on the basis of which the it could be evaluated.
First, the author makes the error of hasty generalization. To illustrate, the author says that in Heart's Delight one will find a wide selection of cheeses made with high butterfat content. The variety of cheeses available would in no way imply that people buy such chesses. It is very much possible that all these cheeses were available a decade ago too. Therefore, more information is required to evaluate the claim. That is, if author had said that these cheeses are in more demand now than they were in demand a decade ago, or that more variety of cheeses are available now than they were available a decade ago, then the argument could be strengthened.
Another example that the author mentioned is that the new House of Beef owners are millionaires. Again, this claim is not enough to evaluate the conclusion. More data is required. Are all the beef stores faring well? Is house of Beef the only store that is doing well? Without the answers to such questions, the authors claim is just a stretch and nothing more.
Second, the author assumes that just because meet and fatty cheeses intake of people is more nowdays, people are not as much concerned about regulating their intake. This a false assumption. The author should have provided furhter proof to substantiate his claim. To illustrate, it is very much possible that people do fret over the exceeded intake but the advancement in biotechnology has made it possible for people to disgest fatty cheeses and be healthy as people were a decade ago. Had the auhtor provided more evidence to support his claim, for example by saying that there is no advancement in biotechonolgoy, or that on an average people have more fat inside their body, this argument could be strengthened.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed because of the above mentioned reasons. The conclusion relies on assumptions, for which there is no clear evidence. Without this information, the argument is weak and open to further debate.
"In general, people are not as concerned as they were a decade ago about regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses. Walk into the Heart's Delight, a store that started selling organic fruits and vegetables and whole-grain flours in the 1960's, and you will also find a wide selection of cheeses made with high butterfat content. Next door, the owners of the Good Earth Cafe, an old vegetarian restaurant, are still making a modest living, but the owners of the new House of Beef across the street are millionaires."
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
Response:
The author concludes that generally people nowdays are not as much concerned about regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses as they were a decade ago. Stated in this way the argument manipulates facts and conveys a distorted view of the situation. Also, the argument fails to take into account several factors, on the basis of which the it could be evaluated.
First, the author makes the error of hasty generalization. To illustrate, the author says that in Heart's Delight one will find a wide selection of cheeses made with high butterfat content. The variety of cheeses available would in no way imply that people buy such chesses. It is very much possible that all these cheeses were available a decade ago too. Therefore, more information is required to evaluate the claim. That is, if author had said that these cheeses are in more demand now than they were in demand a decade ago, or that more variety of cheeses are available now than they were available a decade ago, then the argument could be strengthened.
Another example that the author mentioned is that the new House of Beef owners are millionaires. Again, this claim is not enough to evaluate the conclusion. More data is required. Are all the beef stores faring well? Is house of Beef the only store that is doing well? Without the answers to such questions, the authors claim is just a stretch and nothing more.
Second, the author assumes that just because meet and fatty cheeses intake of people is more nowdays, people are not as much concerned about regulating their intake. This a false assumption. The author should have provided furhter proof to substantiate his claim. To illustrate, it is very much possible that people do fret over the exceeded intake but the advancement in biotechnology has made it possible for people to disgest fatty cheeses and be healthy as people were a decade ago. Had the auhtor provided more evidence to support his claim, for example by saying that there is no advancement in biotechonolgoy, or that on an average people have more fat inside their body, this argument could be strengthened.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed because of the above mentioned reasons. The conclusion relies on assumptions, for which there is no clear evidence. Without this information, the argument is weak and open to further debate.
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Points to remember:
1. For accurate marking of your essays, buy GMAT Write from https://www.mba.com/global/store/store-c ... write.aspx
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You can use Chinese burned's AWA template at how-to-get-6-0-awa-my-guide-64327.html to further build upon your essay writing skills.
4. I have marked a number of grammatical and typos above that will decrease your score in GMAT AWA. Please allot 3-5 minutes to write down your points, next 25 minutes with 5 minutes per paragraph to write
i) Introduction
ii) Flaw 1
iii) Flaw 2
iii) Flaw 3
iv) Conclusion
and then finally tha last 2-3 minutes to proof read your essay. You can try to play with these estimates to see how much time do you need to make sure you make minimum grammatical or typo mistakes.
For this essay, my assessment is 4-4.5
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