by Chrisleen Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:30 pm
First of all, I want you to eliminate the useless info, such as discipline, in the stimulus, and only the useful info should be kept. I think that in this question, at first, we should make it clear that the stimulus conveys such a logic to us that in order to cut the length of the scholar and scientific journals,the academic libraries should reduce their list of description, and it's the usefulness that determines which should be kept and which should be reduced. Therefore, the author created a criterion for us--that is the frequency of the articles cited, which means that the more frequently an article is cited the more useful the article is. However the stem ask us to weaken the argument. In order to make it, we need to show that frequence is not the only criterion for usefulness of the article, which means that either the articles that are cited frequently are not useful, or the useful articles are not cited frequently. Thus, it is clear that answer D delivers that an article which though is useful will not be cited frequently just because it appears in a journal that is not highly regarded by the leading researchers. But there does exist a trick that the test makers use "has influenced their work" to replace the "useful".