The author argues here that all the colleges and universities should adopt the honor code in order to ensure the decline in cheating among the college student's. Stated in this way, the author fails to mention several key factors on the basis of which it could be evaluated. On a support of this argument, the author notes that, the groveton adopting the honor code-which calls for the students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify faculty members if they saw such a cheating- results in the successive decrease of cheating among the students. The author also cites a survey in which most of the students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. However, the careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides only a little credible support to the author's recommendation. Hence, the argument is incomplete.
First of all, the above argument relies on the assumption that the student's in the groveton are just as capable of detecting cheating as faculty members and that these students are as likely to report the cheating whenever they observe it. However, without any strong evidence to prove the capacity of these student's one cannot conclude that the honor code policy for declining the cheating among student's will always be successful. On contrary to this, an impartial faculty observer is more likely to detect and report cheating than a preoccupied student.
Moreover, the argument also assumes that during the five years period, the overall environment and the student's of the groveton are same. If the author's assumption is proved unwarranted, than, in these five years period, most of the new student's entering the college may be intelligent and more inclined towards gaining the knowledge than towards cheating. Thus, without ruling out such alternative explanations for the reported decrease, the author cannot convince me that the honor code has in fact contributed to decline in incidence of cheating in groveton.
Furthermore, the author points out that the recently conducted survey indicates the student's view of not cheating with an honor code than without that. To evaluate this claim, we need a evidence about if the survey is representative. If the sampling population is not large enough and the population are biased, then, the result of the survey does not reflect the contribution of honor code for the decline in cheating among the students and the result would not be conclusive. For this reason, the author's argument is weakened because the given supporting evidence is problematic.
To sum up, in order to evaluate the argument, we should ensure several assumptions; whether the survey is representative, do the honor code best helps reducing the cheating than that of the faculty observers?. Is applying similar policy of the groveton to the other colleges for reducing cheating successful?. Therefore, in its present form, the argument is flawed and unconvincing due to the lack of adequate evidence in a support of this claim.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
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.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 499 350
No. of Characters: 2497 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.726 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.004 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.646 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 195 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 151 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 111 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.018 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.565 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 828, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...s only a little credible support to the authors recommendation. Hence, the argument is ...
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Line 3, column 145, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...udents of the groveton are same. If the authors assumption is proved unwarranted, than,...
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Line 3, column 187, Rule ID: COMMA_THAN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
...thors assumption is proved unwarranted, than, in these five years period, most of th...
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Line 3, column 187, Rule ID: THAN_INTERJ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
...thors assumption is proved unwarranted, than, in these five years period, most of th...
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Line 4, column 184, 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 that. To evaluate this claim, we need a evidence about if the survey is represe...
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Line 4, column 499, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...not be conclusive. For this reason, the authors argument is weakened because the given ...
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Line 5, column 152, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to reduce' or 'reduce'.
Suggestion: to reduce; reduce
...sentative, do the honor code best helps reducing the cheating than that of the faculty o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, in fact, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2543.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 499.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09619238477 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72478183465 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438877755511 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 802.8 705.55239521 114% => 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: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.8055081657 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.842105263 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2631578947 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.377149798685 0.218282227539 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119241091383 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104773230988 0.0701772020484 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221599666107 0.128457276422 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786847356409 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 98.500998004 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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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.