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.
In this recent report, it indicates that an average cases of cheating gradually decreases by using honor code instead of deploying teachers to every classroom. In addition, most of the students in Groveton College said they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Hence, all colleges should adopt it to avoid cheating. It seems that an honor code impacts profoundly, however it may be some flaws after carefully analyzing its logical sequence.
To begin with, data in the survey is provided by teachers at school rather than third-party. Is it possible that the college is facing the periodic schooling evaluation? Consequently, school authorities should show that the policy really plays an important role in lowering the rate of cheating, even though teachers submitted fake data to principal. Do those teachers being responsible for collecting the sample have a burden to report the lower and lower number according to past years’ result? In this case, does the number they obtained completely and honestly represent the actual situation on campus?
On the other hand, it points out that a majority of students also expressed that they would be less reluctant to cheat owing to the design of honor code. Nevertheless, it’s similar that teachers interviewing examiners give those students pressure, such as grade, or even promise them to score higher only if providing opinion positive to an honor code. What’s more, we’re not able to know how many students they asked. It’s likely that three of two interviewees responded that an honor code prevents students from cheating successfully. Under this data, it’s reasonable to say the ratio is belong to majority but the sample is too small.
Last but not least, it suggests that all the college and universities should adopt an honor code subsequently. However, we cannot entirely deny an influence of an honor code, while it’s not convincing to say it can solve the problem all over the colleges. Firstly, have other colleges regulated strictly their rule? Secondly, is it highly correlated between the school’s ranks between the rates of cheating? It’s possible that most of the students studying in prestigious university aren’t willing to get better schools by cheating. There are still many variables needing more thoughtful considerations.
To sum up, it still needs lots of complete data to make a conclusion that all schools should adopt an honor code rather than assign teachers in each classroom.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
it is out of topic.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 407 350
No. of Characters: 2037 1500
No. of Different Words: 230 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.492 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.005 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.595 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.381 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.828 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.493 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.056 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 616, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'belonged'.
Suggestion: belonged
...t's reasonable to say the ratio is belong to majority but the sample is too small...
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Line 7, column 207, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'saying'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'convince' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: saying
...or code, while it's not convincing to say it can solve the problem all over the c...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, hence, honestly, however, if, may, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, still, third, while, in addition, such as, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2148.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 405.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3037037037 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79495920939 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575308641975 0.468620217663 123% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.7278154412 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.285714286 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2857142857 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.80952380952 5.70786347227 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.309367197012 0.218282227539 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920035123635 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076732758231 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173235918657 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.09686224932 0.0628817314937 154% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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