Several years ago, Groveton College adopted 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. 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, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Such evidence suggests that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's. This change is sure to result in a dramatic decline in cheating among college students.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
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The author suggests all colleges and universitities to adopt the honor code system, similar to that of Groventon College. He supports his recommendation by citing the fact that the number of reported cases of cheating declined after the implementation of the honor code system. He also mentions a survey where students say they are less likely to cheat with an honor code than without. Although the author's recommendation seems apt, inorder to critically evaluate it's validity, we need to answer three key questions.
First of all, the author is implying that if the number of reported cases of students cheating declines, that means that the number of students actually cheating in the exams also declines. However, this might not be true. Students might still be cheating in exams, but might conspire among themselves to not to report cheating if they found anyone doing so. Therefore, inorder to evaluate the recommendation, we need to ask whether the students do report all the cases of cheating. If found yes, then the author's recommendation holds ground but otherwise, a lot of cheating might go unnoticed.
Moreover, what worked in Groveton may not work the same way in other schools. Maybe the students in Groveton are more honest and have high moral standards, and therefore report all cases of cheating when they find them. However this might not hold true in other schools. Before implementing the same system in another school, we need to ask whether the students there are as honest as the students in Groveton and adhere to the honor code. If they are not, the then author's recommendation to replace teachers' monitoring with honor code system would do more harm than good.
Lastly, we need to question the validity of the survey. It is not clear how many students participated and whether they are representative of the Groveton's student population. It could also be the case that students when asked about the effectiveness of honor code lie that it is a better method because it is in their best interest. Students might hate when a teacher montiors them and a honor code system would allow them to cheat easily and not get caught.
In conclusion, to evaluate the recommendation of the author, we need to ask more questions. The survey cited by the author needs to be evaluated critically to assert its validity. We also need to ask whether the students in different schools would behave similary as that of Groveton when it comes to honor code. Finally, we need to ask whether less reported cases imply cheating has indeed declined. Answers to these questions would throw more light to assess the validity of the recommendation.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 445 350
No. of Characters: 2160 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.593 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.854 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.676 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.348 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.552 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.652 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.53 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.171 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 400, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...n honor code than without. Although the authors recommendation seems apt, inorder to cr...
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Line 3, column 350, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'does'.
Suggestion: does
...to report cheating if they found anyone doing so. Therefore, inorder to evaluate the ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 507, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ses of cheating. If found yes, then the authors recommendation holds ground but otherwi...
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Line 5, column 221, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... cases of cheating when they find them. However this might not hold true in other schoo...
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Line 7, column 388, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...t hate when a teacher montiors them and a honor code system would allow them to c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, lastly, may, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, in conclusion, 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: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2213.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 445.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97303370787 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75282825033 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45393258427 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 679.5 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 4.96107784431 262% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.5885092847 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.2173913043 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.347826087 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5652173913 5.70786347227 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277690892834 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885815065734 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718502887481 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184918642067 0.128457276422 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0733081170802 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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