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."
A person without proper education cannot lead to a life where he would be respected and honored by others. Education is provided to all those who are willing to be successful in their life and think that being well educated would help them do so. To be well-educated one needs to follow all the rules and regulations while completing the course of education. All of the people try to put an excellent score on their mark sheet. But lots of them do this by cheating and carry out malpractices. To keep track of this, the college and universities should adopt some methods that are well proven so that students don’t cheat.
The author stated that the article has appeared in a student newspaper. There might be a possibility that the source of the article can be unauthorized or unreliable and can mislead the readers.
Even after adopting the honor code the students should follow it rigorously and they should be monitored whether they are doing so or not. Students should first follow the honor code and if they do, they should bring forward the one who is not following the said rules. And if this is not done then there is no use of adopting the honor code.
The old-fashioned system should be put under a check whether really there’s any problem with the method or there’s a problem the way in which it is implemented. As mentioned by the author, in the old-fashioned way the faculty members were asked to closely monitor the students. So, there can be a problem where the faculty member themselves help students to carry malpractices.
The statistics can be proven to be true for particular college only and might not work for all. Also, the class of students and their sincerity differ from college to college. Moreover, the author says “a majority of students said that they would less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without.” Now here, a majority of students is a vague term used and depends on how many students were surveyed. Also, it depends on which kinds of students were surveyed. This part plays a crucial role in carrying out the changes as suggested by the author.
Thus, considering all the solutions and their outcomes each and every college/universities should adopt a way to stop malpractices carried out during examinations. The optimal solution should be chosen according to a particular university and considering the students, education environment, faculty members, etc. The basic step of maintaining a strict environment during the exams should be followed in any case.
Comments
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: 22 15
No. of Words: 433 350
No. of Characters: 2042 1500
No. of Different Words: 209 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.562 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.716 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.634 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.682 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.153 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.287 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 360, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: All the
...ile completing the course of education. All of the people try to put an excellent score on...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 10, column 203, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to accord'.
Suggestion: to accord
.... The optimal solution should be chosen according to a particular university and consider...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, really, so, then, thus, well, while, in any case
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => 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: 2123.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 431.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92575406032 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84486737565 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505800464037 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 654.3 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
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: 42.8148039586 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5909090909 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.63636363636 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23665274822 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0723658758017 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060933062685 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120095366917 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514960366147 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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