The following appeared as an editorial in the student newspaper of Groveton College. "To combat the recently reported dramatic rise in cheating among college students, colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's, 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 an old-fashioned system in which teachers closely monitored students. Under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey conducted by the Groveton honor council, a majority of students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without."
The author is trying to convey the significance of adapting honor code in colleges and universities instead of using traditional methods of supervisions by teachers and professors in order to reduce the cheating during the exams.
According to editor of student newspaper of Groveton college, number of student cheating during exams has been reduced in college after adaptation of new method for avioiding cheating.
Editor of student newspaper is claiming that instead of of traditional method when student are called not to cheat for academic endeavors, they have reduced to cheat in exam and number of cases of cheating has been reduced.
In honor code method, students are suppose to notify the teacher about cheating that teacher supevising them during exam. Editor does not have mention anything about number of students who have notified professir about such incidences. It might be possible that most of the students do not pay attention what other students are doing during their exam, because of which they does come to know about cheating incidences happening during exam.It might be possible that student are not notifying professor even about seeing someone cheating because of several factors like friendship and may be ringing false alarms for personal conflicts. The toughness of the exam might have deduced within last few years for Groveton college and students do not need to cheat in exam to excek their academic performance.
Inspite of having so many assumptions which weaken the argument, their are certain actors which strenghen the argument. As honor codes are based on ethcal values, it right to assume that student who are following this rules are not lying. The number of cheating cases reducing after and after 5 year has given which provides evidences to support the editor's claim.
The results of survey conducted by the Groveton honor council should have been expressed in more elaborated way to support the claim in more strong way. How many more students are cheating less likely with an honor code in place of without, is it significant to consider it as majority should have metioned more good manner. It would have strenghen the claims of editor.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 357 350
No. of Characters: 1803 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.347 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.05 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.457 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.462 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.374 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.154 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.683 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 54, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: of
...dent newspaper is claiming that instead of of traditional method when student are cal...
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Line 7, column 36, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'supposed'.
Suggestion: supposed
...d. In honor code method, students are suppose to notify the teacher about cheating th...
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Line 7, column 376, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'do'
Suggestion: do
...uring their exam, because of which they does come to know about cheating incidences ...
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Line 7, column 442, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
...eating incidences happening during exam.It might be possible that student are not ...
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Line 9, column 66, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
... assumptions which weaken the argument, their are certain actors which strenghen the ...
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Line 9, column 167, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'rights'?
Suggestion: rights
...or codes are based on ethcal values, it right to assume that student who are followin...
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Line 9, column 214, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...o assume that student who are following this rules are not lying. The number of chea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1841.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 356.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17134831461 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50157600873 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511235955056 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 705.55239521 82% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.3608742636 57.8364921388 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.615384615 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3846153846 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.846153846154 5.70786347227 15% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.201748624027 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0824277538617 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0580161161195 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122628896732 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412752457302 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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