Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
According to a recent report, cheating among college and university students is on the rise. 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.
The author recommends adopting an honor codes similar to a college's to decrease cheating among students because the college seems to be successful at using the codes. however, the recommendation lacks persuasive elements because it builds upon precarious arguments. there are certain questions that demand solid answers in order to validate the adoption of the honor codes.
First, the author suggests that all colleges and universities adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's because the college seems to be successful in mitigating cheating. Granted that cheating is indeed decreasing at the college, we do not know for certainty that same success can be expected at other colleges and universities. What we need to know is that whether students at Groveton possess any distinct characteristic that helps them to actually honor the codes. The honor codes appear to promote self-regulation and self-discipline in which students are expected to act in ethical manner in any academic endeavors. perhaps students at Groveton come from strong ethical foundation, so they uphold the codes very serious and act according with any guidance of the codes. if students from other colleges and universities do not possess such desirable ethical attitudes, we cannot expect them to voluntarily honor the codes or report any suspicion of cheating. Consequently, the recommendation will be more likely to fail to achieve its good intention when honor codes is adopted at other schools.
To further evaluate the author's recommendation, we also need to know if the honor codes are actually upheld at Groveton. Based on the observation of decreasing cheating cases reported, the author implies that adopting the honor codes is a successful method to counter cheating. however, the argument is tenuously weak because the mere declining figure does not guarantee that fewer students are cheating. students at Groveton, under loose supervision of teachers, may cover cheating for their friends. they may not honor the codes in the first place by not reporting any suspicion at all. if this is the case, the recommendation is seriously weaken because adopting the honor codes may not only fail to prevent cheating, but also worse, provide spare room for students to cheat given the paucity of teachers' monitoring.
Apart from this flawed argument, the decreasing figures of student's cheating at Groveton are also questionable. The figures are reported upon 5-year observations, and there could be a great chance that the number of students at groveton could have been decreasing over the last 5 years. there could be a case in which the number students at groveton could have fallen by half, which accordingly make the proportion of student's cheating unchanged during the time. this scenario will subject the recommendation to skepticism. In essence, we need to know if there was any significant change in the number of students at groveton over the last 5 years.
The last question we want to have a solid answer is the validity of the recent survey at groveton. there are no indications to suggest that the survey is conducted in an objective manner and is evaluated in equity. groveton may concoct the survey with intention to buttress and promote their honor codes, and to build any image of a highly ethical college. Or students at groveton did not response to the survey with honesty. In result, the author's whole argument will fall apart. perhaps an independent third-party verification is required to assess the true effectiveness of the honor codes when adopted at groveton college.
While the author's intention to seek an effective approach to prevent cheating among students is appreciated, his arguments are wanting in concrete evidence to justify that an honor codes would be successful. He needs to provide more information about the characteristics of groveton's students, the intrinsic effect of the honor codes at groveton, the number of students over the last 5 years and most importantly, the validity of the survey. Unless the answers to these questions are elucidated, the recommendation to adopt an honor codes school-wide will be abnegated.
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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: 18 15
No. of Words: 663 350
No. of Characters: 3427 1500
No. of Different Words: 269 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.074 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.169 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.847 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 252 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 210 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 157 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 36.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.159 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.408 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.259 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 58, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a college' or simply 'colleges'?
Suggestion: a college; colleges
...ends adopting an honor codes similar to a colleges to decrease cheating among students bec...
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Line 1, column 168, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...ms to be successful at using the codes. however, the recommendation lacks persuasive el...
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Line 1, column 267, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...se it builds upon precarious arguments. there are certain questions that demand solid...
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Line 5, column 619, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Perhaps
...hical manner in any academic endeavors. perhaps students at Groveton come from strong e...
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Line 5, column 773, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...cording with any guidance of the codes. if students from other colleges and univer...
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Line 9, column 25, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...r schools. To further evaluate the authors recommendation, we also need to know if...
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Line 9, column 279, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
... successful method to counter cheating. however, the argument is tenuously weak because...
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Line 9, column 406, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Students
...antee that fewer students are cheating. students at Groveton, under loose supervision of...
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Line 9, column 503, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: They
..., may cover cheating for their friends. they may not honor the codes in the first pl...
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Line 9, column 590, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... by not reporting any suspicion at all. if this is the case, the recommendation is...
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Line 9, column 643, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
...e case, the recommendation is seriously weaken because adopting the honor codes may no...
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Line 13, column 288, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
... been decreasing over the last 5 years. there could be a case in which the number stu...
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Line 13, column 464, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...nts cheating unchanged during the time. this scenario will subject the recommendatio...
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Line 17, column 100, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...idity of the recent survey at groveton. there are no indications to suggest that the ...
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Line 17, column 165, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an objective manner" with adverb for "objective"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...to suggest that the survey is conducted in an objective manner and is evaluated in equity. groveton ma...
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Line 17, column 216, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Groveton
...tive manner and is evaluated in equity. groveton may concoct the survey with intention t...
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Line 17, column 482, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Perhaps
...authors whole argument will fall apart. perhaps an independent third-party verification...
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Line 21, column 11, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ted at groveton college. While the authors intention to seek an effective approach...
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Line 21, column 124, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
... students is appreciated, his arguments are wanting in concrete evidence to justify that an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, also, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, so, third, while, apart from, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 98.0 55.5748502994 176% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3504.0 2260.96107784 155% => OK
No of words: 663.0 441.139720559 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2850678733 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.07432619952 4.56307096286 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91841523409 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 204.123752495 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.42383107089 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1102.5 705.55239521 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 19.7664670659 152% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2661270047 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.8 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.03333333333 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.20758483034 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154380563235 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.049297149512 0.0743258471296 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0409489732264 0.0701772020484 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0911366981803 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0221535811494 0.0628817314937 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 98.500998004 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
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Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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