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 en

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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.

Teacher's reports should be considered much more reliable than student's reports, as the teachers definitely have less personal reasons to do so. Suggested system does not account badly intentioned reports or false positives, which can be used as calumny against other students. This may happen in the university environment where there are always some tensions between still juvenile people. For that it is needed to measure the amount of ill will reports, whether by questioning the potential cheater, or further investigating each of reports.

Additionally, with such system in use, students might come up with an agreement between them to cover each other and not to report cases of cheating, what can lead to a severe exploitation. And just by looking at the numbers, it is suspicious that in the first year this system was introduced, the number of reports dropped heavily by 30%. That might even be due to a such student agreement. Selected students can be questioned in order to detect the presence of such misuse. However, even with that in place, there is no method to stand against it, because the actor, the judge, is not outside of the system and tightly coupled with the potential cheaters.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 448, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'report'
Suggestion: report
...eeded to measure the amount of ill will reports, whether by questioning the potential c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, look, may, so, still

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1008.0 2260.96107784 45% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 200.0 441.139720559 45% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76060309309 4.56307096286 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6795335415 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 204.123752495 63% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.645 0.468620217663 138% => OK
syllable_count: 306.9 705.55239521 43% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.873118163 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.0 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2222222222 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 2.0 5.15768463074 39% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118867004612 0.218282227539 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0497010349773 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0305074426454 0.0701772020484 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906013572503 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0117145830044 0.0628817314937 19% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 98.500998004 54% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => 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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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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