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.
In this argument, the first report’s claim that students’ cheating is on the rise is highly doubtful, because there is not any specific evidence to support this claim. Second, Groveton College said they have successfully improved the students cheating number by adopting an honor code is also doubtful, due to no considering some possibility. Finally, the arguer makes the poor connection between Groveton College and other schools.
To begin with, the validity of the sampling methodology conducted in a recent report is doubtful. Because this report fails to offer specific evidence to support the assumption, people cannot know what kind of students and how many students attend the survey. This may be true that the ratio of cheating to no cheating students is high, but it is difficult to say that all students’ cheating trend is on the rise. These students who attended the survey may have a cheating habit. Therefore, if not offer specific evidence, the validity of the survey is doubtful.
Besides, based on the factor that reducing cheating after adopting an honor code, the editor infers that adopting an honor code should be responsible for reducing cheating. However, the sequence of these events does not suffice to prove that schools adopt the honor code caused the reducing students cheating. It might have resulted from some other events instead: easier examination or high quality of education to just a few possibilities. Therefore, reducing cheating could not result from the adopting honor code. Without ruling out scenarios such as these, the editor cannot establish a cause-and-effect relationship between reducing students cheating and adopting the honor code.
Further, even though it is true that Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating after adopting an honor code, the arguer’s recommendation relies on what might be a poor analogy between Groveton College and all schools. However, the level of students, examination criteria may be different. So, it is hard to copy the methods of Groveton College to other schools. In short, without accounting for such possible differences between Groveton College and others, the arguer cannot prove that other schools will reap similar benefits from proposed methods.
In conclusion, the report should provide more specific evidence to support that the rate of cheating students is on the rise. Second, Groveton College must rule out some possibility to ensure a more reasonable assumption. Finally, some possible differences between Groveton College and other schools have to consider to create a more cogent recommendation.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 408 350
No. of Characters: 2151 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.494 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.272 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.659 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.248 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.95 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.576 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
In this argument, the first report’s cla...
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Line 9, column 309, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'consider creating'.
Suggestion: consider creating
...veton College and other schools have to consider to create a more cogent recommendation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, in conclusion, in short, kind of, such as, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2223.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 408.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44852941176 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78416592918 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458333333333 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 687.6 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6506966722 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.15 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 5.70786347227 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.468232787379 0.218282227539 215% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14954973615 0.0743258471296 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107881920756 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.274983858921 0.128457276422 214% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0494111418221 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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