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 argument says that cheating among college and university students have increased. But there is one college "Groveton college" which has successfully reduced the student cheating by adopting the honor code, which makes the students not to cheat during their academic test's and they can also notify their faculty if somebody else has been cheating. According to the college the cheating has decreased from thirty to twenty-one and five years later it decreased to fourteen.
However, the use of the honor code is to trust the students to act honorably, if they violate the rule they can expelled or face severe consequences. Few of the students who might have cheated must have escaped without anybody's notice.There might be few cases which might have not come in to light or which might have not been reported.
According the Groventon college students said that they are less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. This might not be applicable to all the different college's as rules and code's differ from college to college. Groventon's college might have severe punishment when they violate the rule so the students are less likely to violate it. The monitoring system of groventon's college might also be different. It might work if the other colleges have same set of rules and monitoring.
Before the honor code was adopted the faculty used to monitor it. It was reported that an average of thirty students per year who cheated. There might be case in that year were most of the subjects were difficult to understand. The test's might have increased their difficulty level to check with their students. Without the complete information one cannot abide it to all the different college's and universities.
Thus, it can be concluded that without the full information about that particular year one cannot adopt the honor code to all the different universities and college. If abide then rules and regulations must be same as the Groveton's college.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 330 350
No. of Characters: 1628 1500
No. of Different Words: 149 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.262 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.933 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.481 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.412 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.596 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.576 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 113, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'expel'
Suggestion: expel
...ably, if they violate the rule they can expelled or face severe consequences. Few of the...
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Line 3, column 236, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: There
...st have escaped without anybodys notice.There might be few cases which might have not...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Before” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ve same set of rules and monitoring. Before the honor code was adopted the faculty ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1671.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 329.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07902735562 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63354873499 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.468085106383 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.3832694705 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2941176471 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3529411765 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.23529411765 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.385682708222 0.218282227539 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130205833135 0.0743258471296 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120708726979 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223286252724 0.128457276422 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.158128310823 0.0628817314937 251% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => 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: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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