According to a recent report, cheating among college and university students is on the rise. However, Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which teachers closely monitored students; under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. In the first year the honor code was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Thus, all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's in order to decrease cheating among students.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author argues that all colleges and universities should adopt Groveton’s honor code because it would decrease the cheating. The argument is flawed because the evidences that the numbers of cheating have decreased and the analogy of the students saying they will be less likely to cheat are not sufficient.
Firstly, the validity of the numbers of the cheating reported is questionable. In the new honor code, the cases were reported by the students. On the contrary, in the old system, the cases were reported by the teachers. In order to evaluate the recommendation, it is important to know that if the likelihood of students reporting the cheating will be the same or better than the teachers. If the students are just as likely as or even more likely than teachers to report the cheatings, then the number would be valid. Otherwise, the students might be less likely to report cheating than the teachers. which would bring the numbers of the cheating down. Consequently, using the honor code will not necessarily help decrease the actual cheating.
Furthermore, the argument only uses the analogy of the students in Groveton. Although it might be true that the students in Groveton will be less likely to cheat with the new honor code, the students in Groveton are not the same as the students in other schools. The representative of the sample is essential in order to assess the recommendation. If the students in Groveton college can represent all other students in different schools, the students in other schools might actual stop cheating. As a result, the new honor code will be helpful.
In conclusion, in order to evaluate the argument, the validity of the numbers reported and the representative of the sample are needed.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- ???
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minimum 3 arguments wanted.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 291 350
No. of Characters: 1415 1500
No. of Different Words: 111 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.13 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.863 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.68 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.666 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.406 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.572 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 603, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Which
...y to report cheating than the teachers. which would bring the numbers of the cheating...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 603, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “which” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...y to report cheating than the teachers. which would bring the numbers of the cheating...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, if, then, in conclusion, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 28.8173652695 28% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1458.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 291.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01030927835 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86519227409 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 204.123752495 57% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.398625429553 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 450.0 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4131438175 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.125 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1875 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355027143404 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126927812222 0.0743258471296 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793736015198 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209651434909 0.128457276422 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109095104749 0.0628817314937 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 98.500998004 54% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.