Essay topics:
Argument Topic: 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.
The report states a conclusion that all the colleges and universites should follow the honor code which was sucessfully implemented in the Groveton College to reduce cheating in exams. The report states this conclusion based on evidence from a survey which it conducted, and the actual number of people who cheated in recent years. However, the arguement has certains flaws in it which needs to be substantiated be justifying answers.
Firstly, will students sincerely follow the honor code and not cheat among themselves by forming a secret pact among themselves ? The report mentions that before the implmentation of the honor code, students were invigilated by the teachers closely so that cheating incidents do not occour. once the honor code is impleneted, there would be no one to keep a watch on students and they would get a free rein to cheat. Also students may not come forward themselves if they themselves cheat or if they saw someone cheating. Thus, if the honor code is implemented, there might be a increase in the overall cheating cases but only few might be reported.
Another important question which arises is the fairness of the survey which was conducted. Maybe the most of the survey respondants were cunning, and to picture that the honor code campaign is successful, gave their false opinions that the honor code system has achieved its objectives. Also was a similar survey conducted for teachers too ? as in what they feel about the students( as in if they are cheating or not). Perhaps, the teachers might know something which they want to share about the honor code system.
Lastly, even if all of the numbers of cheating incidents and the survey are to be believed, and the number of cheating mischaps does decrease in Groveton College, will the same process be sucessful in other colleges and universities ? Maybe the honor code system worked in Groveton college because the size of Groveton College is a few thousands. What if a particular college or university has a large number of students. Will the honor code system still work in the same manner as it worked in Groveton college ? Perhaps the students there might have different opinions about this.
Thus, the argument that the honor code system is a universaaly proven system and thus be implemented across all colleges and universities , as it stands now, is seriously flawed. To prove the validity of the arguement, the should contain some more concrete evidence which will help in the better evaluation of the aforementioned argument.
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- Essay topics Argument Topic 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 ch 72
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- Argument Topic 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 70
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 13 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 420 350
No. of Characters: 2058 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.527 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.9 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.609 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.854 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.556 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.58 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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... in the overall cheating cases but only few might be reported. Another important que...
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...lar survey conducted for teachers too ? as in what they feel about the students as...
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... to share about the honor code system. Lastly, even if all of the numbers of ch...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2105.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0119047619 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69809621463 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466666666667 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 657.0 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8166637 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.25 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35317701491 0.218282227539 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112177571735 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605592930268 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19539092835 0.128457276422 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592424212796 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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