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.
The author suggests an honor codes has to be executed for all colleges to cut cheating among students. some musing over evidence before taking any steps is first very much in order.
The author claims that an average of thirty cheating cases reported by teacher and twenty-one cases reported by students then reduced to fourteen after five years. some credentials of the statements have to be presented to make the honor system more cogent. The original censoring and honor code are totally disparate ways to report cheating. The former one is reported by teacher and the latter by pupils. because the methodologies are different, it can’t say which one is more effective by the number of the cheating case reported before the correlation between two system has to be presented. The argument could be true if all students are honest and diligent and responsible for reporting cheating. And earlier censoring system by teachers reports repetitively for the same cheating cases. However, the students could cover each other for cheating. For example, there are real thirty cheating cases and nine of them are covered and not reported by students, so only twenty-one cheating cases are reported. if pupils coordinate and cheat together and because there is no other examiners in honor code, some cases would not be reported conceivably. Thus, the effectiveness of honor system is unsubstantiated and has to be presented with more evidence.
Additionally, the author claims that a recent survey reporting pupils less likely to cheat with honor code. The statement is valid only if survey is valid, reliable and fully representative. For example, the questionnaire results are carried out by three independent survey companies, reporting ninety-five percent of pupils agree anonymous. Nevertheless, the survey content could be designed with inclination. For instance, there are ten pages questionnaire and only 1 question about honor code. Besides, the survey content is described like this, which one is more effective for avoiding cheating: honor code versus teacher censor. Such condition tends to lead pupils to choose honor code because they don’t want to be checked by teachers every examination. Therefore, counterpart evidence is required to be responded to compensate the gap.
Even if the questionnaire is fully representative, reliable and valid. The reporting results to the practical situation is unclear. some credentials of this linkage lack, the correlation of two relationships needs to be presented. The statement could be right if there is an evidence demonstrating that higher recognition of honor code, less cheating cases actually happen. In contrast, it could be interpreted diametrically. For example, pupils are not telling the truth because they want to leave good impression to teachers and meet expectation from school, so the survey would be meaningless. it does not reflect the practical situation. The writer has to provide related credentials to substantiate the argument.
In order to make the argument more convincing, the author would have to provide more evidence as above mentioned.
Comments
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: 24 15
No. of Words: 490 350
No. of Characters: 2569 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.705 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.243 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.854 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 193 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 116 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.398 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.469 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.067 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Some
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Suggestion:
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Suggestion: Some
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Suggestion: Because
...ed by teacher and the latter by pupils. because the methodologies are different, it can...
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Suggestion: If
...twenty-one cheating cases are reported. if pupils coordinate and cheat together an...
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Line 5, column 681, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to honor'
Suggestion: to honor
...ondition tends to lead pupils to choose honor code because they don't want to be...
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Suggestion: Some
... to the practical situation is unclear. some credentials of this linkage lack, the c...
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Suggestion: It
...ol, so the survey would be meaningless. it does not reflect the practical situatio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, first, however, if, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, thus, as to, for example, for instance, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2644.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 489.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40695296524 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97071209869 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468302658487 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 842.4 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.76447105788 194% => 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: 30.0 19.7664670659 152% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.9846313951 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.1333333333 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3 23.324526521 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16666666667 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258130437331 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688880400046 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728711946846 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129760114329 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0905728030249 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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