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.
The author of the argument concludes that other educational institutions must impkement honor codes analogous to Groveton's to wane the cheating among students. He comes to this conslusion based on the survey of students as well as the decrease in number of comlplaints from the students. The author's assertion might be true, but following three questions must be answered in order to determine the credibility of the argument.
First of all, are all cheating suspects are complained by other students when they see or hear about it? It is possible that some students even they see such deceitful activity just ignore it and proceed to do their own work rather than be a part of tedoius activity of complaining others as well as be present in the process of judgement. Also, some students might not take the case of mendacity to their teachers because the felon is their close friend and they donot want further trouble for him. If any of these scenarios have merit, then the conclusion of the argument is considerably hindered.
Secondly, is the survey conducted by the Groveton college accurate and veritable? Perhaps the students who participated in the survey might have given false opinion that honor code have made them more focussed to work assidiously just in flatery way to show their respect for their college. Moreover, it might also be possible that only rarefied students were questioned who donot involve in mendacity with or without having honor codes. Students who regularly involve in deceiving might not be included advertently by the college administration to promote the good environment of the college. If any of these cases are true, then the argument does not hold water.
Finally, is the implementation of honor codes a pivotal facot for decline of cheating activities? It is possible that rarefied students were admitted in large numbers in rescent years then malingers so that students have performed their activity of doing their assignments, projects, seminars dilligently. Further, not the honor code itself but the close monitor of teachers for their students be a crucial factor for lowering the cheating activity by the students beacuse they had greater chance of getting caught when they cheat. If any of these conditons are actual, then the persuasiveness of the argument is lowered.
Thus, in conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is significantly flawed due to its reliance o unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to provide answers to these questions (perhaps basd on systematic study approach), then the viability of the argument can be fully determined.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 18 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2143 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.042 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.748 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.611 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.381 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.386 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 293, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2186.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14352941176 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81043433947 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7000456308 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.444444444 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6111111111 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.272910977309 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0858709195487 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769500505456 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146914115932 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0944968605638 0.0628817314937 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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