Outcome of job outsourcing: one of the bad outcomes of job outsourcing has been the decline 'insourcing' of talent -- not enough foreign born indiv from whom american students can learn the foreign culture first hand.

Remedy: Decline in 'insourcing' can be rectified easily by Govt Policy. However job outsourcing cannot be rectified similarly.

Qn: How can we evaluate authors claim -- insourcing can be rectified but this remedy does not address job outsourcing

A: How much does it cost to America? it does not matter...all we want to know is whether the problem requires govt policy

B: How does insourcing replace job outsourcing? if this were 'does insourcing also replace job outsourcing?' would have better. As is, its useless

C: What has been the decrease? we know the magnitude of the problem (dire)..job is to evaluate the claim to rectify not measure how big it is

D: Bingo. If Americans have other opportunities to learn first hand about foreign cultures other than from students, then authors claim is false -- it does not take Govt policy to rectify the situation. Otherwise then we may have to address the issue with job outsourcing..

E: What effect Govt policy would have on foreign grad students? Answer to this favoralbe or not favorable. Favorable, would strengthen but does not evaluate -- cannot guarantee. Not favorable, same thing this weakens the authors claim but it does not eliminate this solution.

So clearly D, if D were to answer YES. then author's govt policy remedy is unnecessary.

Thanks,

For me its E,
What's the OA?

I pick E

lilisanei wrote:While political discourse and the media in the United States have focused on the rise of job outsourcing, few have mentioned the sharp fall of talent "insourcing," or the drop in enrollment of foreign-born graduate students since 2001, and its dire results. The decrease in such insourcing will hurt America's competitiveness in basic research and applied technology, with serious consequences for years to come. The de-internationalization of graduate programs across the country will also negatively affect the global outlook and experience of the American students remaining in those programs; they will not have the opportunity to learn about foreign cultures directly from members of those cultures. What distinguishes the decline of talent insourcing from the rise of job outsourcing is that the former can be easily rectified by a policy change of the United States government.

The answer to which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the author's claim regarding the impact of decreased insourcing in America?

A-What is the cost to reverse the trend of insourcing in America?

B-How does insourcing replace domestic jobs lost from outsourcing?

C-Since 2001, what has been the decrease in the number of foreign-born students in America?

D-What opportunities do American graduate students have to interact regularly with foreigners who are not students?

E-What effect would a government policy have on the number of foreign graduate students?


Please help to find the correct answer!

D should be the answer

While political discourse and the media in the United States have focused on the rise of job outsourcing, few have mentioned the sharp fall of talent "insourcing," or the drop in enrollment of foreign-born graduate students since 2001, and its dire results. The decrease in such insourcing will hurt America's competitiveness in basic research and applied technology, with serious consequences for years to come. The de-internationalization of graduate programs across the country will also negatively affect the global outlook and experience of the American students remaining in those programs; they will not have the opportunity to learn about foreign cultures directly from members of those cultures. What distinguishes the decline of talent insourcing from the rise of job outsourcing is that the former can be easily rectified by a policy change of the United States government.

The answer to which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the author's claim regarding the impact of decreased insourcing in America?

A-What is the cost to reverse the trend of insourcing in America?
The cost is no where mentioned in stimulus, so ruled out!

B-How does insourcing replace domestic jobs lost from outsourcing?
The passage doesnot indicate anything about employement oppurtunities, so ruled out!

C-Since 2001, what has been the decrease in the number of foreign-born students in America?
Contender, because we should be specific in numbers and how they impact!

D-What opportunities do American graduate students have to interact regularly with foreigners who are not students?
Contender, because the author should know that what oppurtunities American students have to interact with people of different cultures apart from college.

E-What effect would a government policy have on the number of foreign graduate students?
We are not concerned about effect of policy on graduate students.

Between, C and D,

I would pick [color=green]D [/color]because C somewhere restates the thing given in passage but D explores a new horizon!

Experts please correct incase I am wrong.

IMO D