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 report in Groveton's editorial states about the honor code system- used to reduce the number of students cheating- and in conclusion it is said that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes , which is too extent; as it contains several critical flaws regarding the honor code system applicability.
Firstly, it is said that honor code systems calls for students to agree not to cheat in the academic endeavors.But, it might happen that only few students agree to not to cheat ,while, others might betray after agreeing.In this case it is not reliable to judge the efficacy of honor code system based on agreement of students for not cheating.Also,It might be the case that faculties vehemently makes students to agree ;and consequencely students might cheat to take revenge by violating agreement.So, it is unreliable to say about honor code's efficacy.
Secondly, under honor code system,students have to notify their faculty member if they suspect any other student cheating.By doing this faculty members think students will 100% loyal to them;but it is wrong because,not all students will be loyal and some might refute to notify, if a student is suspected cheating.for example, if a student sitting beside his best friend,and he suspect that his friend is cheating ,then, he might not report it to the faculty because he is his best friend.In this way ,it is not appropiate to say that honor code is reliable.
Third, according to teachers report , in the first year of honor code system only 21 cases of cheating were reported which was 30 before honor code system; and after 5 years later it reported only 14 cases of cheating.Now, after commendment of honor code system the drop in cases was not significant ,as it reduces around 16 cases in 6 years which is too subtle to say that honor code system is efficient.Reduction of numbers may be the result of easy question papers , students not cheating due to the ease of paper;students not reporting the cheating cases to the faculty and many more might be the reasons for reduction in numbers.So, the report suggests that honor code system might not be effective than it is expected to.
In conclusion, honor code system might have some flaws and it is not the solely responsible for reducing the number of cheating.And the claim regarding all universities adopting the honor code system is too extent, because it is not sure that efficacy of it, is reliable to other colleges and universities as well.In spite, Groveton should try to bring in an alternative to it ,to reduce the significant number of cheating cases.
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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: 12 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 451 350
No. of Characters: 2100 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.608 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.656 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.462 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 56.375 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 31.365 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.536 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.775 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.192 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, well, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2167.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 434.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9930875576 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87219540846 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44930875576 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 19.7664670659 25% => 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: 86.0 22.8473053892 376% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 138.458080299 57.8364921388 239% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 433.4 119.503703932 363% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 86.8 23.324526521 372% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 24.2 5.70786347227 424% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 25.0 5.25449101796 476% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.402896700368 0.218282227539 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.259703866075 0.0743258471296 349% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0599348027626 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.259703866075 0.128457276422 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0599348027626 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 45.5 14.3799401198 316% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -7.35 48.3550499002 -15% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 35.7 12.197005988 293% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.85 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.32 8.32208582834 136% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 12.3882235529 230% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 36.4 11.1389221557 327% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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