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
The argument suggests that an honor code system should be adopted for all colleges to decrease cheating among students for several reasons mentioned in the article, however, there are detailed questioned need to be answered.
The writer claims that Groveton College has successfully reduced pupils’ cheating by using an honor code. It could be true if the background, student composition, and type of colleges are similar. Still, the determinant question, is an honor suitable to the school as well? The author needs to answer detailed information about how it works in Groveton College, it is possible that not only Groveton College students are lazy to report cheating, but also there are actually few tests in a semester and that’s why so few cheating cases reported with an honor code. Although the cheating cases drop in Groveton College, it doesn’t imply we could apply this system to all colleges. Because there could be some college with numerous students who are highly-disciplined and honest, they would like to censor each other with the highest standard and reporting cases increase drastically rather than decrease.
Furthermore, the reporter says that cheating reported by teachers is thirty cases much more than the number reported by students by an honor code. Nevertheless, the question is do students report the results honestly? A probable explanation is that pupils would like to help each other for cheating and gradually don’t report cheating cases, because they are friends in the classroom. Therefore, fewer and fewer cheating cases reported by honor code. The author has to answer the question for this possibility and it is suggested to understand how an honor code works from students under the table.
Additionally, the writer proposes that a survey reflects fewer cheating cases with an honor code than without. Still, is the survey valid and representative? It is possible that the questionnaire is done only with 2 percent of the students of the college and it is barely to represent the major opinion of students of a college. Besides, do students complete a questionnaire honestly? A probable explanation is that they just want to leave a good image to their teachers, so they lie in the survey. Moreover, is the content of the survey biased? Because the college president wants to apply an honor code as Groveton College does, he makes a survey asking whether students want to use honor code reporting cheating cases by students themselves or 1-by-1 teachers’ monitoring when taking an examination, which sways students toward an honor code for less stress. Therefore, it is suggested that use 3rd party questionnaire for cross-checks to validate the effectiveness of the survey.
In conclusion, the author has to answer the questions mentioned above to make the argument more cogent.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 458 350
No. of Characters: 2311 1500
No. of Different Words: 202 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.626 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.046 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.732 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 173 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 106 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.81 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.312 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.329 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 738, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... be some college with numerous students who are highly-disciplined and honest, they wou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, furthermore, honestly, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, well, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2377.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 456.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21271929825 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62105577807 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84529057883 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453947368421 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 732.6 705.55239521 104% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.3240133262 57.8364921388 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.19047619 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57142857143 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.466523945706 0.218282227539 214% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143347494254 0.0743258471296 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11029780263 0.0701772020484 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258936329434 0.128457276422 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131375476369 0.0628817314937 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
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: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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