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 specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author suggests that in order to reduce cheating scandals among students, all colleges should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton’s. However the evidence that the author provides is insufficient.
The report mentions that Groventon College has a significant reduction in student cheating after after they adopted the honor code which asks the students to report the cheating to faculty members themselves. Here, we need more information about if students really report the cheating of their classmate honestly. Is it possible that even if some students cheated or seen others cheat, they would not necessarily report to the faculty due to reasons like wanting a good grade or peer-pressure? Imagine if you see your friends cheating in test and you know that if you report to the teacher, they would stop being friends with you. In this case, I believe most students would not have the courage to report their friends.
Furthermore, the report also mentions that a recent survey shows that the Groven students said they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code than without. The author did not specify who conducted the survey, nor did the author mentioned the number of students who took the survey. If the survey is conducted by the students themselves, then the survey might reflects the truth about the students. However, if the survey is conducted by the faculty in school, then it is possible that students might not answered honestly because they fear the teacher might think they cheated themselves. Even if the students answered the survey honestly, we still don’t know how many people took the survey. If there are 1000 students in Groveton College and only 10 students took this survey, then the survey pool, 1% of the total student population, is definitely not enough.
Last, we need the author to provide more information about other colleges and universities that he or she suggests to adopt the honor code. Even if the honor code really works for Groveton College, we do not know that it would work as well in other schools. It can be that the students in Groveton College are taught to be more honest than other colleges because they were required to take many moral and ethics classes. We need more evidence about other universities and colleges in order to trust the argument provided by the author.
In conclusion, the author needs to provide further proof as mentioned above in order to strengthen the argument.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 412 350
No. of Characters: 1994 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.505 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.84 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.399 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.235 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.483 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.245 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 78, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...reduce cheating scandals among students, all colleges should adopt honor codes si...
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Line 1, column 146, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...honor codes similar to Groveton's. However the evidence that the author provides i...
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Line 3, column 92, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: after
...gnificant reduction in student cheating after after they adopted the honor code which asks ...
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Line 4, column 849, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ool, 1% of the total student population, is definitely not enough. Last, we n...
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Line 6, column 107, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggests adopting'.
Suggestion: suggests adopting
...olleges and universities that he or she suggests to adopt the honor code. Even if the honor code ...
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Line 6, column 391, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun moral seems to be countable; consider using: 'many morals'.
Suggestion: many morals
...eges because they were required to take many moral and ethics classes. We need more eviden...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, honestly, however, if, really, so, still, then, well, in conclusion, you know
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 28.8173652695 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => 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: 2057.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00486618005 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54378834792 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.457420924574 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 617.4 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.5133156838 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.277777778 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => 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: 0.401998123581 0.218282227539 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135895065272 0.0743258471296 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100140761616 0.0701772020484 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197872507809 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117366603673 0.0628817314937 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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