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.
There are several unwarranted assumptions made in this case. Few will be discussed in next few lines.
Firstly, No details on supervision system in which teacher’s were monitoring students were provided. How are the students monitored, what is considered as cheating, criteria for exempting cheating, these has to be understood clearly. Cheating has to be clearly defined to understand the thirty cases reported by teachers. Same goes with students notifying a teacher on cheating. There should have been more elaboration on cheating policy advocated to understand assumptions considered.
Furthermore, After honor code in place, cases reported are lesser in number than compared to previous year this doesn’t mean that there has been an overall decline in cheating cases. We are unclear on the number of students who are appearing for the exam during the examination years. To add more, considering the decline in cheating cases and accepting that students will not cheat with an honor code in place is clearly an assumption without any base. Total students who took examinations in graveton college over the years can clear the air to the assumptions.
However, Students and teachers in graveton college and all other colleges are entirely different. It can’t be implied that this formula will work every where since there is no comparison between the students and their nature was made, employing same situation will lead to both sides of the coin. Considering the previous data on how often and the number of cases reported are to be analysed to implement this system.
Following the honor code can decrease the cheating cases resulting in better evaluation of the students, but this doesn’t mean same situation can best attribute the rest of universities.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 284 350
No. of Characters: 1449 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.105 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.102 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.687 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.933 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.362 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.267 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.604 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 52, Rule ID: APOSTROPHE_PLURAL[1]
Message: Consider using the plural form here: 'teachers'.
Suggestion: teachers
... details on supervision system in which teacher’s were monitoring students were provided....
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Line 5, column 60, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: lesser
...honor code in place, cases reported are lesser in number than compared to previous year this doe...
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Line 5, column 229, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...e unclear on the number of students who are appearing for the exam during the examination yea...
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Line 5, column 422, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t with an honor code in place is clearly an assumption without any base. Total st...
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Line 7, column 147, Rule ID: EVERY_WHERE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'everywhere'?
Suggestion: everywhere
... be implied that this formula will work every where since there is no comparison between th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1499.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 282.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31560283688 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78426610069 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.567375886525 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 47.7639566572 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9333333333 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73333333333 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.29434600597 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0962941901431 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0652476034711 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142498773563 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0977129135878 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 12.3882235529 48% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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