The following appeared as an editorial in the student newspaper of Groveton College.
"To combat the recently reported dramatic rise in cheating among college students, colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's, 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 an old-fashioned system in which teachers closely monitored students. Under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey conducted by the Groveton honor council, a majority of 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 what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The evidence of given argument is not studied thoroughly. The author has derived the conclusion that the honor code system has been successful without considering enough factors. The author considers an ideal case which works well in some scenarios but in a big picture, he has not given attention to other facts and causes. The statistics of the argument is precise but many causes behind the result are neglected by the author. The author lacks knowledge about the importance of monitoring the examination by a person to detect or find out a cheating done.
The author assumes that every student studying in a college has ideal motives but it is not the case with students in this tough competitive world where each one wants to benefit himself only. Everyone is not trustworthy and cannot be trusted without any cross-evaluation. The honor code system assumes that each student will follow the code of conduct in any situation no matter even if the carrier of one depends by crossing the rules of it. A student will obey the rules but a friend will not. Students think beyond what is logical and rational, they work on the emotional level. So even if somebody finds his friend is cheating, he might not tell the authority because it is the matter of friendship and moreover his friend’s carrier. Also, it is possible that students will give false information to take rivalry against his or her enemy. Thus, the honor code system without any support for cross-evaluation of the information given by students is an injustice.
The author neglects other factors like level of education, quality of teaching, the difficulty of examination, etcetera which are completely unexplored by the author. These factors will equally influence the results of reduction in cheating cases. It might be possible that the level of education within five years has been ceased, thus students can perform well without depending to cheat in the examination. The quality of teaching might be improved exponentially so that every student is capable to gather enough knowledge and become smarter. It will eventually get him better grades and thus remove the need to cheat. The difficulty of examination is reduced within five years, thus by studying only a couple of days, a student can perform well as he does not need to thoroughly prepare each topic in minute detail because the level of questions will not be of that difficulty.
The author neglects the advantages of “old-fashioned system” which will not be present in honor code system. If an examination is monitored by an invigilator, even if cheating happens, he would be able to see the way by which cheating has happened. This will give more ways in which an old-fashioned system can become strict and eventually will be a fully non-biased system.
Therefore, the author has not studied enough causes and assumes an ideal system in which the honor code system will work.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK. need to argue:
Moreover, in a recent survey conducted by the Groveton honor council, a majority of students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 488 350
No. of Characters: 2378 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.7 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.873 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.658 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 176 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.217 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.387 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.609 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.297 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.496 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 180, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ful without considering enough factors. The author considers an ideal case which wo...
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Line 1, column 326, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...en attention to other facts and causes. The statistics of the argument is precise b...
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Line 1, column 431, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...the result are neglected by the author. The author lacks knowledge about the import...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...to detect or find out a cheating done. The author assumes that every student study...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2440.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8138521713 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465163934426 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 774.0 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9351889939 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.086956522 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2173913043 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.17391304348 5.70786347227 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.142925733412 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0449147738812 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0384405079427 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0883903492998 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351117497967 0.0628817314937 56% => 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: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => 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: 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.