Evidence suggests that academic honor codes, which call for students to
agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty
member if they suspect that others have cheated, are far more successful
than are other methods at deterring cheating among students at colleges
and universities. Several years ago, Groveton College adopted such a code
and discontinued its old-fashioned system in which teachers closely
monitored students. Under the old 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.
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations
that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your
explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The argument promotes the effectiveness of the academic honor codes system given that the number of students cheating is decreased than before when old fashioned observation by professors was exist. The argument has provided few evidence in the explanation before taking the position but there may be other many explanations of decreasing the number of reported students who cheat in the exam.
One alternative explanation may be the students are as less likely to report as are professors so number of reports of cheating has decreased. Students are focused and busy to write the answer of their own paper so they may not recognize their peers who are cheating. For instance, their peers may be cheating my different means which cannot be identified by them; if they cannot recognize the number of peers cheating, obviously the number of reports would be decreased. So, the evidence presented in the argument is not sufficient to take the position that number of reports declined after the implementation of the academic honor code.
Another alternative explanation would be the university might have increased the severity of consequences from the cheating. If the university is strict in their rules and regulation for those who cheat in the exam, students might frighten to cheat. For example, students might have the fear of failure or expel if they cheat in the exam due to such fear in students the number of reports of cheating might decline. The argument mentioned about the survey that majority of students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Alternatively, the survey may not be reliable if the survey was to taken in honest group of students obviously they deny cheating and this clearly shows number of decrease in students.
Last but not the least alternative explanation regarding the argument is the exam pattern might be different than old exam pattern; if professors have modified the exam pattern focusing on knowledge measurement, students can not cheat so that number of reports might be decreased. For instance, professor may remove the pressure of getting perfect score to pass or timed based exam to pass the exam, students can freely write and they need not to cheat this may be the reason of decreasing the number of reports.
Due to all the mentioned possible alternative explanations the evidence to take position might not be sufficient. These alternative explanations plausibly account for the enough evidence to take position that the number of reports has decreased.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 419 350
No. of Characters: 2101 1500
No. of Different Words: 161 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.524 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.014 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.712 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.933 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.818 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.425 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.653 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.162 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 193, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'existed'.
Suggestion: existed
...fashioned observation by professors was exist. The argument has provided few evidence...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 226, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[6]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun evidence seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'little evidence'.
Suggestion: little evidence
...rs was exist. The argument has provided few evidence in the explanation before taking the po...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 110, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
... is the exam pattern might be different than old exam pattern; if professors have mo...
^^^^
Line 7, column 445, Rule ID: NEEDNT_TO_DO_AND_DONT_NEED_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cheat'?
Suggestion: cheat
...ents can freely write and they need not to cheat this may be the reason of decreasing th...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, regarding, so, as to, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2143.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 419.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11455847255 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77026320054 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.398568019093 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 669.6 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2466818918 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.866666667 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9333333333 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.06666666667 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => 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: 0.246823066296 0.218282227539 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109271420922 0.0743258471296 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590495397778 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153795196291 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0755336675985 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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