In a recent report, the proportion of college and university students who cheat is increasing. To address the problem, it is argued that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes which succeed in Groveton College based on its successful experience. However, this recommendation is still not strong enough and we need to collect more information to answer some related questions in order to assess the recommendation critically.
To begin with, there is a noticeable drop in the number of cases of cheating during the past 5 years. It is assumed that the number of cases reported by students is real so cases of cheating is decreasing. However, we need to answer the question that if the number is real. Clearly, it is possible that the honor code system is not strict enough to avoid ignoring some cases of cheating. The former system, which requires teachers to oversee students closely, had helped the school discover an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. The number of cases is much more than that in the new system. Maybe there is still many cheating existing in the college, but the new system can’t discover them. In this case, the number of cases remains high, so the recommendation would not be reasonable. We need more information to answer the question about the reality of data about the number to assess the argument.
On the other hand, it is likely that there are many other reasons why the number of cases of cheating has dropped in the past 5 years. In order to assess the validity of the honor code system, we need to answer the question if other reasons can explain the decrease observed. Maybe the drop is due to the increasing difficulty of cheating because of the development of technology which can be used to discover cheating. Perhaps there is stricter penalty which stop students from cheating as well. In order to assess the validity of the new system, we need to investigate other reasons related to the drop. After answering this question, we can assess the recommendation more critically.
Finally, we need to ask if the result of the recent survey is reliable. The majority of students said that they would more likely not to cheat when the new system is available. However, it is still unreasonable to assume that students would cheat less under the honor code system without answering the reliability of the survey. Maybe the number of students being interviewed is too small to make a conclusion, and they may lie in the survey to avoid being punished because of cheating. If it is this case, it would be possible that cheating is still universal in the college. Thus, the argument is not strong enough.
In conclusion, we still need more information to answer questions mentioned above to assess the validity of the recommendation.
e-rater score report
arguments on the wrong way
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 477 350
No. of Characters: 2264 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.673 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.746 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.611 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.08 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.513 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.508 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.16 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, may, so, still, thus, well, in conclusion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2327.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 477.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8784067086 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70743982983 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.389937106918 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 723.6 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.7184331444 57.8364921388 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.08 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.08 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.08 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.88822355289 232% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.221904155892 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713307212735 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067464889824 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129660101503 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0678863338078 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => 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: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
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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