Self-study
Conclusion The best way to increase the blood supply in the city of Pulaski is to encourage more donations by people who are regular blood donors. █ █████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ███████████████████ ███ █████████████████████████ ████ ██ ██ █████████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ █████ ███████ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ██████ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ████ ██████ ███ █████████ ██ █████ ██████ ███ ████████████ ███████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████████ █████ ████████ ██████████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the best way to increase the blood supply in the city of Pulaski is to encourage more donations by people who are regular blood donors. This is based on a study conducted in two other cities, which showed that officials had a lot of success in convincing regular blood donors to donate more frequently. But it was difficult to attract first-time blood donors.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the city of Pulaski is relevantly similar to the other cities with respect to potential for the cities’ blood donors to increase the frequency of their donation. The author also assumes that there aren’t other ways to increase blood supply besides increasing blood donation frequency or getting first-time donors. (This overlooks the possibility of getting blood from other cities or countries or other sources.)
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This strengthens the argument.
b
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This strengthens the argument by suggesting Pulaski might be able to increase its blood supply more than the other cities did through getting regular donors to donate more frequently.
c
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This strengthens the argument by showing that getting donors to donate more frequently has lasting effects.
d
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The author never assumed that there were more regular blood donors than sporadic ones. Regardless of the relative proportion of blood donors, getting the regular ones to donate more can still increase the blood supply.
e
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This suggests that getting regular blood donors to donate more frequently might not be a viable solution in Pulaski. If almost all are already donating the maximum amount that’s safe, they are unlikely to donate more frequently.