Self-study
Mayor of Outerville, a suburb of Center City: Outerville must grow if it is to survive, so, as we have agreed, efforts should be made to attract more residents. ███ ████ ████████ ███ ██████████ █████████ ██ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ████████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ████ ███ ██ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ███████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████████ ████ █████████ ████ █████ ███████ ██████████ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ██ █████ █████ █████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███ █████████
Summary
Outerville is a suburb of Center City. If Outerville survives, it must grow. Outerville should make efforts to attract more residents. The best strategy to attract new residents is to renovate the train station. The number of jobs in Center City is increasing. The number of people who want to live in suburbs is increasing. Tolls are rising, causing driving to the city to become more expensive than traveling by train. People want to live in areas with convenient and pleasant train travel.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
If Outerville renovates the train station, it will make train travel more convenient and pleasant, attracting people who want to live in the suburb but commute by train to Center City’s jobs.
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This is unsupported because this information is already presented as a premise to the argument. We already know that the town should attract more residents, but this points to a separate conclusion.
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This is strongly supported because the mayor states that the best strategy for attracting new residents to Outerville is to renovate the train station.
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residents of Outerville ███ ███ ██ ████ ██ ████ ██████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ████
This is unsupported because the mayor doesn’t make any value statement on where people should look for work. They mayor’s value statement is limited to saying what the best strategy is for Outerville to attract new residents.
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This is unsupported because although people who work in Center City but live in Outerville may prefer to commute by train, the mayor makes no prescriptive statement saying these people should commute by train.
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This is unsupported because we don’t have any statement declaring where people should or should not live.