Evidence suggests that academic honor codes which call for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated are far more successful than are other methods at deterring cheat | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Evidence suggests that academic honor codes, which call for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated, are far more successful than are other methods at deterring cheating among students at colleges and universities. Several years ago, Groveton College adopted such a code and discontinued its old-fashioned system in which teachers closely monitored students. Under the old 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.
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.

Groveton College has adopted the academic honor codes where students agree not to cheat and has discontinued the traditional method of closely monitoring students. The prompt states that the reported cases of cheating has reduced with the adoption of the academic honor code system. It also reports that from a recent survey of the students of Groveton, most students said that they are less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. While this assertion might be true, it rests on three assumptions for which it provides no clear evidence.
First, the prompt assumes that students will report all cases of cheating. In a class of students of whom many might be friends, students may not want to report their friends even if they have clear evidence of cheating. In most cases, cheating come with a severe punishment and many students many students may not want to be the cause of a disciplinary action on another. It is also possible that students could face bullying for reporting those who cheated in a test and so may turn a blind eye when their peers cheat in exams. If this is true, then the explanation of the prompt is not very plausible.
Secondly, the prompt assumes that the population of Groveton College has remained the same over the past five years. It is possible that the population of the college has reduced significantly over the past five years and with a reduction in population, decrease in the occasions of cheating is likely. This in turn, may lead to a decrease in the number of reported cases of cheating. If this is true, then assertion of the prompt becomes less plausible.
Finally, the prompt assumes that in the survey, the students who said that they were less likely to cheat with an honor code in place were telling the truth. Perhaps they responded in that manner to influence the school management to leave them unsupervised. If this is true, then they are also less likely to report cases of cheating and the explanation of the prompt loses credibility.
In conclusion, while the assertion of the prompt that the adoption of an honor code results in less cheating and reported cases of cheating might be plausible, its author needs to address the assumptions cited above to increase its validity.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 106, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun might seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much might', 'a good deal of might'.
Suggestion: much might; a good deal of might
...heating. In a class of students of whom many might be friends, students may not want to re...
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Line 2, column 279, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'many students'.
Suggestion: many students
...ating come with a severe punishment and many students many students may not want to be the cause of a disci...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, in conclusion, in most cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1869.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 388.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81701030928 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55460480036 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.414948453608 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 571.5 705.55239521 81% => 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: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7164074298 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.941176471 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8235294118 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => 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: 0.255185410492 0.218282227539 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0898715235114 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076488663751 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154783679701 0.128457276422 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0855049629009 0.0628817314937 136% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, in conclusion, in most cases

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