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 argument relies on a report about students cheating at colleges and universities. It is said that Groveton College has vanished cheating through honor code. However, it is not valid to say it because many students may lie to faculty member just to take advantages over others.
Moreover, it also states that replacing the system by honor code shows that the numbers of cheating cases have dropped meaningfully. But where is the source of information taken from? It is not clearly said about the source of the data. If it were said that the data were taken from a magazine or newspaper, then it would be worth to talk about the data. In addition, the number of students entering and leaving the university varies. Therefore, it is not possible to be clearly sure about the dropping.
Furthermore, the argument states about a recent survey where it is said that the cheating cases is less to happen with the honor code than without it. However, the survey may not be accurate having seen the fact that maybe not all the students could be interviewed. Thus, it is not right to say about the survey.
Finally, it is said that adopting the honor code may work for other colleges and universities. But, if it is not clear that it is going to work for Groveton students, then it is not probably going to work for other colleges and universities.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1109.0 2260.96107784 49% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 237.0 441.139720559 54% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.67932489451 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.56307096286 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55375019345 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 204.123752495 56% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.485232067511 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 350.1 705.55239521 50% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.0344963056 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 79.2142857143 119.503703932 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9285714286 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07142857143 5.70786347227 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286068795095 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100317301908 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0983720287593 0.0701772020484 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182380876225 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.103942507557 0.0628817314937 165% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.3799401198 63% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 98.500998004 44% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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