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.
The above issue is based on a recent report that the cheating among college and university students is on the rise. In contrast, it also underscored a college named Groveton College which had successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code. Moreover, critically analyzing their data for a couple of years they made a conclusion that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's in order to decrease cheating among students. Consequently, this argument is quite interesting and as well as it also create lots of ambiguous facts.
Here, it is explained that after applying the honor code the rate of cheating is decreased gradually. It is important to emphasize the fact that all the students in the college and universities are not devoted to moral values and social ethics. For example, in a college or university, there are some students who are sedulous, scrupulous, docile and well-mannered and in any conundrum or critical circumstances they will never abjure their ethics and moral values. On the other hand, there are some student who are unscrupulous, obsequious and precocious in social values and moral ethics and in any circumstances, they will do any kind of unethical and antithetical works. So, it cannot be possible by applying only a honor code to completely eradicate or highly diminish the rate of cheating because the unethical students will not follow any kind of rules and regulations.
Another important point to mention, it is not possible for the teachers to monitor all the students because the number of students in the colleges and universities are not proportional to the number of the teachers. There are higher possibility that teachers cannot monitor the activities of all the students and they can never able to estimate the accurate number of the students who are cheating and who are not cheating.
Consequently, it is stated that in the first year the honor code was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating and five years later; this figure had dropped to fourteen. But, it is not mentioned here the total number of the students of the school in those year. It can be possible that in the first year the number of the student is higher and after five year the total number of student is less than the first year. In this circumstance, it can be possible that the number of cheating in the last year is higher considering the total number of students. It is a paramount information which is not provided here and we cannot rely on the basis of the percentage value only.
Another issue is, however, if this rule is become a great success in the Groveton College, there is no possibility that this rule is valid in the other college and universities. The ethics, scruples and environment in every college and university is different. Furthermore, if any rule is applied in the institution by the authority, it is totally on the basis of the nature and environment of the institution and the students of that institution. So, we cannot clearly prescience that the honor code will be a great and huge success in every institution.
In conclusion, it can be asserted that every college and university has it is own and unique rules and regulations on the basis of their ethics, scruples and moralities and for the success of those institutions it will be better to not force any kind of rules and regulations to them. They should create their own rules for their betterment and prosperity.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 and argument 3 -- not exactly
argument 4 -- OK
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 589 350
No. of Characters: 2841 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.926 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.823 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.77 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 117 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.773 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.322 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.587 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.155 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 500, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'students'?
Suggestion: students
...lues. On the other hand, there are some student who are unscrupulous, obsequious and pr...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 718, 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
... it cannot be possible by applying only a honor code to completely eradicate or h...
^
Line 4, column 265, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this year' or 'those years'?
Suggestion: this year; those years
...number of the students of the school in those year. It can be possible that in the first y...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, well, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, kind of, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.6327345309 194% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 35.0 11.1786427146 313% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2901.0 2260.96107784 128% => OK
No of words: 589.0 441.139720559 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92529711375 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92639038232 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85610647197 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.37181663837 0.468620217663 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 944.1 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 4.96107784431 343% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6650204684 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.863636364 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7727272727 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.13636363636 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.427644749899 0.218282227539 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141325511089 0.0743258471296 190% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120477853282 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.23440374411 0.128457276422 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146654243547 0.0628817314937 233% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => 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: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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