I am a full-time student, and most of my time I spend on campus or in classrooms. The campus is designed beautifully. There are many cozy places on green, manicured lawn under tall shady trees. Roses, Narcissus and other colorful flowers grow everywhere. Even restrooms are decorated with flowers. Classroom, in contrast, are ugly and dirty places. I have an impression that most rooms have never been vacuumed or dusted. While writing students wipe dust from their chairs off their clothes, what can they do about the walls and floors? There is another problem: air-conditioners. Not one works properly. In some rooms conditioners aren’t working at all. This summer session, the conditioners were shut down for two weeks. It was almost impossible for students to concentrate on assignments and for teachers to explain material well. Headaches, high blood pressure, and tiredness were common symptoms that both students and teachers experienced. It is doubtful which air-conditioners are worse: those that are noisy or not working. In room 101 in the science building the air-conditioner works so noisily that students hardly hear their teacher no matter how desperately the teacher tries to compete with it. The most booming professorial voice could not carry over the droning, clattering noise of the ventilation system. Therefore, I believe the college needs to pay more attention to the internal structure of the classrooms to make its goal of learning possible. 1. What is the thesis of this argument? 2. If you were to develop this further as an essay, what would your topic sentences be? 3. What additional support would you offer for each point ?
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