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.
In the argument the author is discussing about the honor code system to cut the cheating in exams. Groveton College found that due to adopting honor code system after five years only fourteen cases reported of cheating. They find the results of honor code so that they recommend-ate honor code system to all colleges and universities. I am not agreeing with the Groveton College on honor code system. There is some questions rise in my mind on honor code system.
Furthermore, the honor code system is a promise to not cheat in exams. The students promise with the teacher to not cheat in the exam but we cannot rely on them because it is only a statement. Weather a student obeys the promise or breaks it we cannot predict. Generally teachers take promise from students to attempt question paper without cheating but students take advantage of situation and copied answers from their friends answer sheet. So honor code is not much useful for when of cheating in college. It may be possible there are other factors which reduces the cheating cases in Groveton College.
Additionally, the reliability of the honor code system is questionable because it is not a scientific method and it just depends on person’s honesty. Groveton College did not explain about the reliability of the honor code system so it may be not useful in other colleges or may be less effective. It may plausible that in Groveton College most of students are intelligent and honest so that they found fall in number of cheating in exam.
However, the cheating cases fall down but still there are 14 cases reported. It may be possible that the students of Groveton College are honest. They show only reported data but it may be possible there are cases that are not reported. Under honor code College expected from the students to report the name of others who cheat in exam but it is also depend on honesty of the student. The honor code system will be fruitful if we check honesty of the staff as well as of students.
Finally, the honor code system need scientific research before implementation in all colleges and universities. The system should have reliability, validity as well as standardization to spread benefits on large-scale.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 21 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 1803 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.757 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.557 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 127 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 23 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.048 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.394 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.173 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 338, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...tem to all colleges and universities. I am not agreeing with the Groveton College on honor code...
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Line 1, column 402, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'There are some questions'?
Suggestion: There are some questions
... Groveton College on honor code system. There is some questions rise in my mind on honor code system. ...
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Line 5, column 346, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the students') or simply say ''most students''.
Suggestion: most of the students; most students
... may plausible that in Groveton College most of students are intelligent and honest so that they...
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Line 5, column 445, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...und fall in number of cheating in exam. However, the cheating cases fall down bu...
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Line 7, column 352, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'depended'.
Suggestion: depended
...others who cheat in exam but it is also depend on honesty of the student. The honor co...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1850.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88126649077 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67953352084 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.422163588391 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 595.8 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7997973937 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.0952380952 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0476190476 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.389998454789 0.218282227539 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136588445419 0.0743258471296 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756481831607 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223515725303 0.128457276422 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0881349326667 0.0628817314937 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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