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.
The argument is about the risen cheating among the students, and one college called Groveton has been able to reduce the amount of cheating among its students by adopting an honor code. This system has been successful in this college, and it is recommended that it should be used in other colleges and universities. This argument has some weaknesses and strengths that I will discuss.
About the strengths, I can say that adopting one way to reduce cheating helps students to rely on their knowledge and have more motivation to study. In this system, students are asked to agree not to cheat and even report people who are suspected to them. In this way, the rate of cheating will reduce.
However, the question is how long this system can be successful? There are no details about the application of this system. How do students report the suspected people to the officials? If they have to report in front of other students, this way can hurt the relationships among them, and sometimes can cause leaving the college or university.
We should know how the application of this system has been evaluated. What type of method has been chosen for evaluation? There are some figures which show that with this system the amount of cheating has been reduced in Groveton college. But they are not enough for a comprehensive evaluation. How can we ensure that these figures have been evaluated correctly? How have they been evaluated?
The use of this system in other universities and colleges is recommended. How can we ensure that this system has the same results in other colleges and universities? Have other colleges and universities the same conditions? Officials of other colleges have to consider whether this system can be implemented in their colleges or not. They have to consider which factors they need to run for this system. They may be forced to use other alternatives to reduce cheating among students.
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 324 350
No. of Characters: 1555 1500
No. of Different Words: 132 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.243 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.799 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.571 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 14.727 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.883 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.182 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.176 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 386, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sses and strengths that I will discuss. About the strengths, I can say that adop...
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Line 9, column 485, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ives to reduce cheating among students.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => 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: 1600.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93827160494 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68697081256 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.438271604938 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 504.0 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1023503341 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 72.7272727273 119.503703932 61% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7272727273 23.324526521 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.13636363636 5.70786347227 20% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286807499997 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0950938974271 0.0743258471296 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100472218954 0.0701772020484 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190902717465 0.128457276422 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0972706555593 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 14.3799401198 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.3550499002 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.197005988 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.78 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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