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 reports states that the Groveton college effectively discouraged cheating throught the honor code systems and other college should also adope such system. This suggestion is based the evidence that the average number of students who cheats under new system is less than that of the teachers’ supervision, and the number of reported cheating cases under the hornor system is also decreased five years after the implementation. However, these evidences are seriously flawed.
Firstly, the number of reported cases went down might be the reason that students are focusing on their own exams. They would pay more attention to how to do well on the exam and keep their eyes on the paper rather than look around and trying to spot any cheater. Moreover,some exams are moved online due to pandemic. Althought the chance of cheating could went up significantly, there is no way to find out as the environment is more advantageious to the cheater.
Secondly, such new system might be abhored by the students and therefore, they are clandestinly working togther to against it. The students who report others might get bullied and insolated, which discourage individuals from expose the cheather as they don’t want to get abused or deplored by their classmates. Which indicate that the case number decreased after five years of implementation is simply beacasue students were intimidate or reluctant to do so.
Finally, even the system did help reduced the cheater among the students in Groventon, it does not mean it will suits other colleges. For example, the Groventon might be let their students do the exams on paper, while other colleges are already move all the exams online.Which added difficulties to detect any possible cheating, and made the system inapt.
To sum up, less reported cheating cases were not necessary benefit from the honor code system, it could becasues that student are not willing to report or don’t have the time to do so. In order to enhance the statement, the report need to proved evidence like other schools’ exam system or survey that how likley a student would report a cheating cases if they saw one.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4,0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 15 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 13 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 358 350
No. of Characters: 1738 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.35 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.855 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.494 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.977 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.609 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.051 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
the reports states that the Groveton colleg...
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Line 1, column 13, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'state'.
Suggestion: state
the reports states that the Groveton college effectively d...
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Line 3, column 273, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , some
...and trying to spot any cheater. Moreover,some exams are moved online due to pandemic....
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Line 3, column 358, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'go', 'wend'
Suggestion: go; wend
... Althought the chance of cheating could went up significantly, there is no way to fi...
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Line 5, column 426, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'intimidated'.
Suggestion: intimidated
...tation is simply beacasue students were intimidate or reluctant to do so. Finally, eve...
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Line 7, column 113, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'suit'
Suggestion: suit
... in Groventon, it does not mean it will suits other colleges. For example, the Groven...
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Line 7, column 272, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Which
...s are already move all the exams online.Which added difficulties to detect any possib...
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Line 9, column 348, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'case'?
Suggestion: case
...ikley a student would report a cheating cases if they saw one.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for example, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1797.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07627118644 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65462936016 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54802259887 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 556.2 705.55239521 79% => 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: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4390981823 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.357142857 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2857142857 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.14285714286 5.70786347227 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.295101556682 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10032212347 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656293166838 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168982689405 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.048795673804 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => 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: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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