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 endeav | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

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.

Although it seems like the implemented system of Honor Code has the desired successful effect in the Groveton College, the author does not
make a persuasive argument to back up his recommendation. There are numerous inconsistencies in his argument which need to be sorted out
before it can be said with certainty that the Honor Code is really the reason for the cheating drop in Groveton College.

To begin with, Groveton college has started a new system in which the student are responsible for keeping a check on their moral code in
a pressurized environment where acting immorally is definitely more beneficial. In such an environment, assuming none of the student will
cheat is like equivalent to giving keys of a treasury in a thieves hand without any overboard supervision. Furthermore, the students are
expected to rat out their friends to the faculty in case of any misconduct. This idea begs the question of the reliability of the
students to keep themselves in check, without any supervision, especially in the time of examinations.

The author has mentioned a statistic of 30 students that cheated every year. Without having any data to verify this fact, the data
presented in the argument becomes redundant. And then the author compares this the current data with the reported cases of cheating in first
year after the code was implemented, followed by the number of cases reported after 5 years. Even though there is a drastic drop in the
number of cheating cases reported, the author has not given any indication to validate this claim. It is entirely possible that in the
first year the student were apprehensive of the imposed rules and thus reported any incidents out of sheer fear. But as the year passed,
they understood the non-existent severity of the system and stopped reporting the cases of misconduct they observed. It is even likely that
few years along the line, the number of cases reported may drop down to zero. Are we supposed to then assume that the students of Groveton
have become morally upright and are not cheating in an unsupervised environment?

Author goes on to cite a survey which tells us a majority of students like the Code and would not cheat if it were in place. Author has
not given any information about the questions asked in this survey, the number of students questioned, the type of students questioned,
or the timeline in which the students were questioned. Is not in the scope of imagination, that these students may simply have lied so
that an unsupervised examination center may continue as it has done for past 5 years? Is not possible that instead of reporting each other
the students are taking undue advantage of the situation and everyone is scoring good grades?

These questions need to be answered before a logical conclusion can be reached regarding accepting or rejecting the recommendation of
the Honor Code. The Survey that was conducted needs to be questioned and its details thoroughly verified. if it found that all these things
give positive response and the moral integrity of students is beyond reproach then positive action can be taken towards implementing Honor code.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, may, really, regarding, so, then, thus, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 55.5748502994 149% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2666.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 529.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03969754253 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82539837727 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 204.123752495 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480151228733 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 840.6 705.55239521 119% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0109584 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.952380952 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1904761905 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 24.0 5.15768463074 465% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.325416374135 0.218282227539 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0984813558156 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634921156946 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0933219039996 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0567395847322 0.0628817314937 90% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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