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 the honor code is useful for lessening the cases of cheating and suggests that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes rather than traditional monitor.
According to the report, it points out that the number of cases of the first year and fifth year is lower than average. Why does it only provide two years of data? Is it possible that the report’s author choose to list the lower number favor to the result? It’s likely that the cheating cases in the second, third, and fourth year are higher than the average, such as 50 or even more. Thus, it’ll be more convincing given the total data supporting the efficiency of an honor code.
On the other hand, even though other 3 years of number are also below the average, students usually have no time watching what others are doing during the difficult examination. Yet they indeed discover or notice that their classmates furtively cheat during the test. What percentage of students would really use an honor code to reveal the wrong behavior? Once she rap, it’s risky that she may encounter isolation, making profound impact on the relationship between peers. To lots of students, the friendship is definitely outweigh the candid. It had better provide students some incentives to report the cases such as adding the score or ensuring the anonymity.
It also says that students would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. How did the designers of recent survey ask the question before getting the conclusion? Some questions only contain responses like yes or no, and the students must reply that they wouldn’t cheat under the existence of honor code. At the end of the article, the author recommends that all colleges and universities adopting an honor code for it’s successful in one school. Which country of students is the recent survey aimed to? It’s common that students in Asia often encounter more pressure on academics. Hence, they tend to get higher score so as not to be reprimanded by their parents and have an opportunity to get admitted to the prestigious school by using brilliant grade. Under this case, it likely students will be willing to cooperate with others to perform well. At that time, teacher walking around the classroom monitor students closely is more efficient than an honor code.
To sum up, it still needs more careful inference and consideration before all universities and colleges replacing teachers’ monitor with an honor code
Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
the arguments are not right on the point.
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2031 1500
No. of Different Words: 221 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.801 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.435 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.227 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.598 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.289 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.479 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.048 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 367, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'raps'.
Suggestion: raps
... to reveal the wrong behavior? Once she rap, it's risky that she may encounter...
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Line 5, column 530, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'outweighed'.
Suggestion: outweighed
... students, the friendship is definitely outweigh the candid. It had better provide stude...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 139, Rule ID: ASK_THE_QUESTION[1]
Message: Use simply 'ask' instead.
Suggestion: ask
... How did the designers of recent survey ask the question before getting the conclusion? Some que...
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Line 7, column 1003, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y is more efficient than an honor code. To sum up, it still needs more careful i...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, really, second, so, still, third, thus, well, such as, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2128.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05463182898 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60683398295 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529691211401 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 662.4 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.8148867462 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7272727273 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1363636364 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09090909091 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34096006799 0.218282227539 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971894066991 0.0743258471296 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0777676265964 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192161777265 0.128457276422 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0935985598626 0.0628817314937 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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