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Speaker 1 Summary
Annie concludes that the university’s administrators should admit that their policies have been in error, should charge students a library fee, and should use the funds for library improvements. This is based on the fact that there have been few books purchased in the last decade, most older books are damaged, and charging students a fee is the fastest way possible to address these problems.
Speaker 2 Summary
Matilda concludes that students should not have to pay a library fee. This is because the problems with the library are the fault of library officials.
Objective
We’re looking for a disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether students should be charged a fee to improve the library.
10.
Annie and Matilda disagree about ███████
a
library administrators are ██ █████ ███ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ █████████
Not a point of disagreement. Annie blames university administrators, who are reasonably considered the same as the library officials Matilda blames. Even if they’re not, Annie might still blame both library officials and university administrators.
b
library improvements could ██ ████ ███████ ████████ ███████ ████████ ████████ ██████████ ████
Matilda expresses no opinion. She might agree with Annie that a student fee is the fastest way to improve the library.
c
students will ultimately ███████ ████ ███ ███████ ████████████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ████
Matilda expresses no opinion. She doesn’t suggest any opinion about the results of student fees or of library improvements. In addition, it’s reasonable to think Matilda agrees that library improvements would help users of the library, such as students.
d
those not responsible ███ ███ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████ ████ ███ ████ ███ █████████ ██
This is a point of disagreement. Matilda thinks students should not be responsible for improvements. Annie believes students should be charged a fee for library improvements. She doesn’t explicitly say students aren’t responsible, but she blames administrators’ policies.
e
funds for library ████████████ █████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██████████ ███████ ████
Not a point of disagreement. Matilda doesn’t discuss whether the university can get funds without a student fee.