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 points out the fact that amount of cheating is rising and by adopting honor codes, it have reduced cheating on campus. Therefore, Groveton College's success means that honor code will also works at other colleges. At first glance, the reasons behind implementing the honor code seems reasonable. However, there are a few aspects the author might have missed, thus more evidence should be provided.
When cheating rises in colleges, students are always the first to blame. However, this might not be fair to the students. It might be possible that exams at college are getting harder which makes students more difficult to pass their tests. Students tend to work hard preparing tests. But once they find out that no matter how hard they work, failing the test is inevitable, students will lose the motivation to study. Also, difficult tests might be unable to distinguish the difference between hard-working students and lazy students. Eventually, forcing students choosing the path of cheating in order to pass the test or to get better grades which students think they deserve. Therefore the author must provide evidence of the difficulty of the test students took recently. Also, a survey must also be conducted to inquire whether students think exams are getting more difficult.
College is an environment where a lots of leisure activities are going on that will distract the students. Those entertainments will cost students lots of their time and thus have a effect on their studies. It might be possible that student clubs are also rising during this period. Causing students too much time and effort focusing on entertainments rather their studies. Thus, the author must also list some evidence about the things that distract students from their studies and whether they caused students' low grades making them cheating on their tests in order to get good grades.
After implementing honor codes, some students might have a strong integrity toward tests. While others may still be cheating because the teachers are no longer monitoring them. Without the teacher policing the students. It is hard to believe that the cheating among students will decrease due to the honer code. When taking tests, student are highly focused on their papers. Who will have the time to report other students? It is also possible that students will ignore cheating by others because they are afraid that if they are found out reporting others they might be blamed by their peers, being hated in the class forever.
Therefore, the author should provide a anonymous survey done by students showing how many people are really cheating on tests.
Students said they won't likely to cheat may be that the survey they filled in required putting their names on. Students will tend to give the answers that the teacher wants. Thus the survey does not reflect the truth. Therefore, a anonymous survey must be presented by the author to show the true voice of the students.
Finally, the honor code will work at all universities is highly unlikely. Maybe Groveton college is a highly prominent college that all students are very honest to themselves. Other college might not be the case. Thus, perhaps a integrity test must be done on the students at other college before implementing the honor code.
The author must provide the evidence listed above in order to decide whether the honor code works at Groveton College.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 35 15
No. of Words: 564 350
No. of Characters: 2785 1500
No. of Different Words: 235 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.873 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.328 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 203 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.114 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.844 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.296 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.519 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 8 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'has'?
Suggestion: has
... rising and by adopting honor codes, it have reduced cheating on campus. Therefore,...
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...ng honor codes, it have reduced cheating on campus. Therefore, Groveton Colleges ...
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Suggestion: Therefore,
...ades which students think they deserve. Therefore the author must provide evidence of the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, really, so, still, therefore, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.9520958084 208% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 28.8173652695 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2875.0 2260.96107784 127% => OK
No of words: 563.0 441.139720559 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10657193606 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4064067448 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 204.123752495 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433392539964 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 859.5 705.55239521 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 35.0 19.7664670659 177% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.2395468987 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.1428571429 119.503703932 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0857142857 23.324526521 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.45714285714 5.70786347227 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 8.0 5.15768463074 155% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 6.88822355289 261% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.383486134125 0.218282227539 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109921245531 0.0743258471296 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674460798479 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191254530236 0.128457276422 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0665866783477 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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