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.
It is stated in the mentioned recommendation that other colleges and universities should adopt honor code to tackle cheating among students. This recommendation is based on the evidence that Groven college cheating cases dropped in the following year when honor code system was enforced and further more after five years, and also a recent survey showed groven students preferred honor code to tackle cheating during exams. Before the above recommendation is evaluated two questions need to be addressed.
Firstly, how truthful groven students are when following honor code? For instance, making sure that there was no collusion among students during exams and how truthful the groven students are towards other people can help determine the integrity of the honor code followed by the Groveton college. If the answer to above question is addressed then the recommendation to follow honor code in other colleges would be strengthened.
Secondly, even if Groven students turn out to be honest students. Question remains, Are other university students are similar in honesty or not? For example, there can be schools where percentage of kids having criminal parents and criminal neighbourhoods are high. In those school it might be foolish to implement honor code system instead of teacher monitoring system.
Lastly, are other university students comfortable with honor code system or not? Even though Groven university students prefer honor code system, other university students might not like the system. For instance, a different university student might prefer concentrating more on solving the problems given in the exam rather than keeping an eye out to who is cheating or not. So conducting a proper survey for each university students preference can help bolster the recommendation.
The recommendation, as it stands now, is flawed, more evidence specific to the university is required and more in depth report of the integrity of the honor code followed by the groven university students is required to help strengthen the recommendation.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 319 350
No. of Characters: 1698 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.226 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.323 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.843 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.267 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.114 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.622 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.147 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, 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.
...r code to tackle cheating during exams. Before the above recommendation is evaluated t...
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Line 2, column 298, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
... code followed by the Groveton college. If the answer to above question is address...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 28.8173652695 28% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1745.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 319.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47021943574 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90768193638 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.495297805643 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => 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: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.0457223758 57.8364921388 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.333333333 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2666666667 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.355580687689 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136400008511 0.0743258471296 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0764454371193 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191328078298 0.128457276422 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0738496575549 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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