■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. You response will be judge on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading
Topic :Outsourcing
In the lecture, the professor casts doubts on the point in the reading passage that there are some characteristics of outsourcing which causes many bad results.
First, in the reading passage, the writer mentions that outsourcing can be the factor that contributes to the low quality product and service since the subcontractors and workers do not try to do best at making products. Meanwhile, the speaker says that, contrary to the reading passage that companies can keep the quality of their product highly by checking the working process which is done by outsourced workers and increase the quality of their products using the costs saved by reduction of labor payment.
Secondly, it is claimed in the reading that there are a possibility of the leakage of the technological and customer information of companies. In contrast, the lecturer asserts that the number of the leakage problems is too low to be considered serious. He suggests that if companies always try to solve such a problem, it can be prevented.
Finally, according to the reading that outsourcing has a negative effect on people's job security in domestics because many companies kick off their workers by outsourcing to other countries. However, the speaker argues that even if workers are laid off, they can find other jobs in the same field easily. Also, he adds that although people who worked on IT fields were fired, many of them could even get a high-paying job in the field by explaining a research on outsourcing.