The author of the passage recommends that, all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's school to reduce cheating in examinations. This suggestion is based on the observation that Groveton's school has less number of cases in some years after implementing the honor code and based on a survey conducted with students. However, before evaluating this argument completely, following three questions must be answered.
To begin, did Groveton's school had equal no of students in the years before and after implementing the honor code? It is possible that Before implementing the honor code the school had had thousand students but the very next year of honor code implementation, number of students that attended the school had dropped to five hundred. In that case, the decrease in no of cheating cases should not be attributed to the newly implemented honor code. In such scenario, author would benefit from calculating the percentage of cheating cases rather than absolute numbers.
Secondly, even if relatively same number of students attended the school every year, was the drop in no of cheating cases persistent across all 5 years? Author mentions that there was decrease in number of cases after the first year and fifth year of implementation. However, this doesn't guarantee the drop in cheating cases in all 5 years. It is possible that, these decline in first and fifth year is just accidental and cheating cases have increased in other years after implementation. author would be benefitted if he considers average no of cases per year after implementing the honor code to support his argument.
Further, how reliable was the survey conducted? It's possible that, survey was taken by students intended to cheat in exam and thus, they intentionally commented in support of the honor code. when group of students in an examination hall intend to copy, with honor code implementation, since there won't be a teacher to examine, they will have better chance to copy. Even if survey was taken by all the sincere student's, what questions were asked in survey ? It's possible that survey has asked is it better to have honor code or no rules at all. In that case sincere students might have considered honor code better than not having any rule at all. If any of the above is true, author's argument doesn't hold water.
in conclusion, author's argument as it stands now, is full of unwarranted assumptions. He has to answer above mentioned questions to further evaluate this argument.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 417 350
No. of Characters: 2061 1500
No. of Different Words: 184 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.519 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.942 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.709 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.971 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.569 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 42, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...o begin, did Grovetons school had equal no of students in the years before and aft...
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Line 3, column 182, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: had
... implementing the honor code the school had had thousand students but the very next yea...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 190, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a thousand'.
Suggestion: a thousand
...nting the honor code the school had had thousand students but the very next year of hono...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 364, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
... hundred. In that case, the decrease in no of cheating cases should not be attribu...
^^
Line 5, column 102, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
... the school every year, was the drop in no of cheating cases persistent across all...
^^
Line 5, column 282, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...h year of implementation. However, this doesnt guarantee the drop in cheating cases in...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 491, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Author
...ed in other years after implementation. author would be benefitted if he considers ave...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 542, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...d be benefitted if he considers average no of cases per year after implementing th...
^^
Line 7, column 192, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: When
...commented in support of the honor code. when group of students in an examination hal...
^^^^
Line 7, column 694, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... of the above is true, authors argument doesnt hold water. in conclusion, authors a...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: In
... authors argument doesnt hold water. in conclusion, authors argument as it stan...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2110.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 414.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09661835749 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7778398535 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454106280193 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 656.1 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => 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: 42.1216788325 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.476190476 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.47619047619 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.269891090925 0.218282227539 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0915109604955 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730761366279 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152619087311 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0806023778104 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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