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Analysis of Hidden Argument
Lab 5
The goal of this lab is to help you see the use of hidden argument in a text.
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In order to see the hidden arguments, a reader must first become sensitive to the underlying issues and motives of a writer. Look for example at pharmaceutical companies. Those companies have a profit motive that drives them to create new drugs, but also to sell those drugs for the highest prices that the market will bear. There is an inherent tension between profit and medicine in our health care system. Some companies keep the two in balance; some don't.
For this lab, I want you to visit the site of the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical company. Read its "Responsibility" and its "Investors" pages and judge for yourself if that company's motives are profit, medicine, or a balance. (Thanks go to Lilly for making this lab so amazingly possible.)
Then I want you to write your analysis in which you explain why you feel that the Lilly company has
- balanced the needs of the patients and shareholders, or
- put medicine before profit, or
- put profit before medicine.
Remember that it is important to say in your analysis what you read or saw at the Lilly site that lead you to your conclusion. Click here and you're on your way...The Eli Lilly Company
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