<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Issue Prompt:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px">We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from those whose views contradict our own.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><em>Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Argument Prompt:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px">The following appeared in a memo from the director of a large group of hospitals.<br />
"In a laboratory study of liquid antibacterial hand soaps, a concentrated solution of UltraClean produced a 40 percent greater reduction in the bacteria population than did the liquid hand soaps currently used in our hospitals. During a subsequent test of UltraClean at our hospital in Workby, that hospital reported significantly fewer cases of patient infection than did any of the other hospitals in our group. Therefore, to prevent serious patient infections, we should supply UltraClean at all hand-washing stations throughout our hospital system."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><em>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.</em></span></p>
