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
In the given para, author talks about the rise in cheating cases among college and university students and further also suggest a solution picked by Groveton College. He says they have introduced some kind of honor code and it is responsible for reduction in cheating at there college. Thus, all colleges and universities should adopt honor code. Though this sounds convincing after listening authors explanation a keen observation will help us to find multiple loop holes and assumptions made by author which lead to multiple questionable arguments.
Firstly, author says adopting honor code is only reason for reduction in student cheating. This is some kind of abruptly made assumption. There may be a case that student studying in college are genuinely convinced that cheating may not help in gaining any kind of knowledge. Also we can not reject the possibility that some student still try to cheat, but are not caught by teachers. Thus, we can say there may be many other reasons for reduction of cheating rather than honor code adoption.
Furthermore, author while proving his statement tells us that the teachers are closely monitoring students and have reported average of thirty cases of cheating per year. While making this statement author has not given any justification that teacher are always monitoring properly. For example there may be a case that teacher may go for some kind of tea break or busy in other activities such as paper checking and some student took advantage of such situation to cheat. Also author has not specified any exact statistics for cheating cases. It is possible that some year cheating cases reported may be 60 and another year may be 0, which further averages to 30 per year. Thus, due to multiple questions arising we can not directly except authors justification.
While concluding, author makes a suggestion that to reduce cheating cases throughout all colleges and universities should adopt honor code. This is really vague assumption that all colleges and universities will observe similar behavior in cheating statistics after adopting honor code methodology. For example, some college have a group of students who are not at all interested in learning things and frequently speak lie. Thus, surpassing this honor code is not a big deal to them. Thus, such a generalization from observation at Groveton College to all colleges and universities is not acceptable.
Finally, we would say that author assumptions have made his statement of adoption weak enough to be accepted. Thus to make it a stronger author must provide with more genuine and strong evidences.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2147 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.052 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.699 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.318 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.845 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.955 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.326 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.144 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 438, Rule ID: HELP_TO_FIND[1]
Message: This phrase is probably grammatically incorrect. Write 'help us find' instead.
Suggestion: help us find
...ors explanation a keen observation will help us to find multiple loop holes and assumptions mad...
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Line 2, column 276, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... help in gaining any kind of knowledge. Also we can not reject the possibility that ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e of thirty cases of cheating per year. While making this statement author has not gi...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 473, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...k advantage of such situation to cheat. Also author has not specified any exact stat...
^^^^
Line 5, column 110, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...of adoption weak enough to be accepted. Thus to make it a stronger author must provi...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, really, so, still, thus, while, for example, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2190.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15294117647 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75824125299 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482352941176 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 691.2 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.1082274446 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5454545455 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3181818182 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.40909090909 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.342513204486 0.218282227539 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11634792697 0.0743258471296 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827551561316 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206923876668 0.128457276422 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108716762073 0.0628817314937 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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