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.
According to the letter, author argues that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes in simillar way that Groveton’s practiced in order to decrease cheating among university students. It is convincing at first, however, some recommendations seems unreasonable that leads me to question the argument.
Fisrt, the universities and colleges should question the exact number of their cheating students in order to assure whether they need honor code or not. It is important to know how many students are cheating in their colleges or universities. This is because students might need not to spend their extra time and effort while they take a test. It is uneffective for students and faculty to concentrate on the cheating problem
Second, the universities and colleges should question the efficency of the honor code. For example, when group of students foment to cheat, they share their positions not to tell anybody that the fact they cheat. In this case, faculty has no idea if the group of students have cheated or not because the group of students would not tell anything to faculty about cheat, futhermore, if all students in classes are engaged in the group, a faculty never knows the truth.
Finally, the question on the recent report about students should be arised by the universites and colleges. The decreased rate of the cheating among the students is unreasonable in some ways. Fisrt, students report include the students who cheat on the academic endeavors as well. Therefore the report is not good indication that show the actual rate of cheating students. Second, students’ cheating skill might be improved because of the honor code. Students who tend to cheat prevent themselves from discovered by more secure and more minor technique to avoid their faculty and contemporaries eyes.
In summary, the author should question the recommandation that he afforded on the text. To bolster, more detail informations on exact students number who cheat and more concrete survey and report shoould be afforded.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: According to the letter, author argues that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes in simillar way that Groveton's practiced in order to decrease cheating among university students.
Error: simillar Suggestion: similar
Sentence: It is uneffective for students and faculty to concentrate on the cheating problem
Error: uneffective Suggestion: ineffective
Sentence: Second, the universities and colleges should question the efficency of the honor code.
Error: efficency Suggestion: efficiency
Sentence: In this case, faculty has no idea if the group of students have cheated or not because the group of students would not tell anything to faculty about cheat, futhermore, if all students in classes are engaged in the group, a faculty never knows the truth.
Error: futhermore Suggestion: furthermore
Sentence: Finally, the question on the recent report about students should be arised by the universites and colleges.
Error: arised Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: universites Suggestion: universities
Sentence: In summary, the author should question the recommandation that he afforded on the text.
Error: recommandation Suggestion: recommendation
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argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor rExcellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 328 350
No. of Characters: 1665 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.256 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.076 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.682 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.294 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.137 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.58 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 284, Rule ID: NEEDNT_TO_DO_AND_DONT_NEED_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'spend'?
Suggestion: spend
...This is because students might need not to spend their extra time and effort while they ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 282, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...heat on the academic endeavors as well. Therefore the report is not good indication that ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in summary
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: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1724.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 328.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25609756098 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80781924266 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.481707317073 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3642385535 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.75 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.519422483946 0.218282227539 238% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.193149214841 0.0743258471296 260% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100270951332 0.0701772020484 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293090186673 0.128457276422 228% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104658802297 0.0628817314937 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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