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.
While it may be true that with honor code program in Groveton college the cheating among students has been dropped during last five years, this author’s argument does not make a cogent case for recommending the honor code program. It is easy to understand that the same plan may be work for other universities and colleges too, but the author needs verifiable evidences to prove his/her claim.
First of all, the author concludes that if students agree to do not cheat, they are not going to cheat. That is not true. Every student already knows that they should not cheat but they still do. Even sometimes, students who see their classmates cheating do not report it because they are their friends or they do not want to get in trouble.
Additionally, the author just mentions the number of cheating during past five years. Based on the author, there were thirty cases of cheating before the honor code program. Twenty-one cases of reported cheating for first year and the number dropped to fourteen after five years. These numbers do not make sense because we do not know the total number of students. Imagine the total number of students dropped to half amount after five years, and the cheating number dropped to half too which means that the cheating numbers has not been changed. To strengthen his/her argument, the author should mention about the total number of students during last five years.
Last but not least, the author recommends the same plan as Groveton college for other universities and colleges; however, there can be many differences between Groveton college and other colleges. For example, the total number of students is different between every college and university. Another differentiation which can increase or decrease the amount of cheating is the ways to deal with cheating. For example, the administers of other colleges might not be willing to ruin their academic reputations by reporting cheating. They might give the first cheating notification to their students without anybody else to know.
The author can make his/her claims persuasive when he/she gathers information about the total number of students, honesty of students in Groveton college during five years, and also the similarities and differences between the Groveton college and other universities. After answering these questions, the author can make such a conclusion.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 341, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the author can make such a conclusion.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, then, while, even so, for example, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1991.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15803108808 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55421101962 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455958549223 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2286521964 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.789473684 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3157894737 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94736842105 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.35593945464 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124317691681 0.0743258471296 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.074935956452 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213280924417 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659939504118 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.33 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 341, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the author can make such a conclusion.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, then, while, even so, for example, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1991.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15803108808 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55421101962 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455958549223 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2286521964 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.789473684 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3157894737 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94736842105 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.35593945464 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124317691681 0.0743258471296 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.074935956452 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213280924417 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659939504118 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.33 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.