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 this argument essay the author concluded that the use of honor code can be the most effective solution in reducing the cheating among the college and university students. Though there have some assumptions that the author mentioned in the passage have some errors to conclude this directly.
At first, the author claimed that the honor code managed the students not to cheat in academic exams and notify a faculty member if they suspects others in cheating but this can not be effective one because the students might be provided wrong information to the authority. This situation can be the worst enough for any students who do not cheat in exams.
Furthermore, the author mentioned that the number of cheating is decreasing every year by using the honor code policy as he or she mentioned some statistical data for some years. But logically there have some flaws to compare all the data with the rate of cheating in the exams. There have many possibilities that the number of students is not same as the previous years. The author should include the number of students for those years he or she mentioned in the passage. Obviously among 100 students the number of cheating rate will vary than among the 200 students the number of cheating rate.
Lastly, the policy brought a good result in reducing cheating among the students does not mean the policy will same successful in other schools and university at the same time. It can be possible that there have variety of academic procedures in every others institute. Though the author noted some important part to consider the conclusion effective but there some discrepancy in the passage to support the point as well as the conclusion. If the author satisfy all those consideration the conclusion of passage must be strong enough.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 303 350
No. of Characters: 1465 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.172 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.835 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.485 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.308 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.861 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.408 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.616 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.159 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 138, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'suspect'
Suggestion: suspect
...ams and notify a faculty member if they suspects others in cheating but this can not be ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 442, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...rt the point as well as the conclusion. If the author satisfy all those considerat...
^^^
Line 7, column 469, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this consideration' or 'those considerations'?
Suggestion: this consideration; those considerations
... conclusion. If the author satisfy all those consideration the conclusion of passage must be stron...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, lastly, so, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => 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: 1493.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 303.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92739273927 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53437412515 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448844884488 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.865800849 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.846153846 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38461538462 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.303427631969 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114796570485 0.0743258471296 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0923735180218 0.0701772020484 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189883772372 0.128457276422 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0623671268911 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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