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
Based on a recent report on exam fraud, colleges and universities should adopt honor codes in line with Groveton colleges to reduce cheating in examination. This is based on the fact that students pledge the honor code, stick by it and not break it, report their fellow mates caught in the act and the likelihood of a student cheating under a teacher's supervision is more than an oath pledged one. However, the recommendation can be deemed appropriate by answering the below three questions.
Firstly, what is the guarantee that an oath pledged student(to not cheat) will abide by this and not break the code? It's a verbal agreement and can be broken at any instant. It's a possibility that a student bound by honor code may lie, and end up cheating. One cannot be a 100 percent sure that the moral code won't be broken. In case, the above possibility turns out to be true, then the author's claim is severely dentured.
Secondly, what if the students don't report their fellow batchmates who are involved in cheating leading to a decline in the students caught for malpractice? Students have the back of each other and rarely deceive one another. It's a possibility that a student bound by the code may end up not reporting his friend cheating because of several reasons like friendship, loyalty, etc. There's a possibility that all the students who take up the oath may cheat and end up not reporting one another leading to the false idea that no one was involved in the malpractice. The above case is a real possibility and should be carefully analysed before concluding.
Thirdly, how can one compare two different periods without considering external factors? The fact that the students involved in cheating over the period of 5 years reduced from 21 to 14 maybe due to a number reasons. It may be a possibility that the number of students enrolling Groveton college has reduced drastically over the period. There may also be a case, where the college has hidden the actual statistics of children involved in cheating to promote honor code. One can't rely on facts ranging over a period and justify a major claim.
To conclude, the above argument is definitely flawed considering the above stated unwarranted assumptions. The author needs to provide necessary evidence to support his claim and answer the afore mentioned questions to make it a viable claim. Until then, this shall remain a flawed argument.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 413 350
No. of Characters: 1964 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.508 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.755 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.621 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.65 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.005 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.291 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.524 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 344, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...ikelihood of a student cheating under a teachers supervision is more than an oath pledge...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...l abide by this and not break the code? Its a verbal agreement and can be broken at...
^^^
Line 3, column 173, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...ement and can be broken at any instant. Its a possibility that a student bound by h...
^^^
Line 5, column 32, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ured. Secondly, what if the students dont report their fellow batchmates who are ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 227, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...h other and rarely deceive one another. Its a possibility that a student bound by t...
^^^
Line 5, column 381, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
... reasons like friendship, loyalty, etc. Theres a possibility that all the students who...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 475, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... in cheating to promote honor code. One cant rely on facts ranging over a period and...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => 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: 2004.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87591240876 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6882088479 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520681265207 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 637.2 705.55239521 90% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4248775577 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4285714286 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273659776362 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080418561081 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0818888727491 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14995662405 0.128457276422 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0921886978614 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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