A lot of high school students now cheat in homework assignments, by asking other students for answers. Which of the following do you think is the most efficient way to stop?  1)asking parents to help stop the students from cheating  2)penalty or p

There are many ways to avoid cheating in homework assignments by asking other students for answers, which seems effective in first glance. However, in my opinion, providing punishments for cheating is the most efficient way to stop.

First of all, providing punishments for cheating could help students fundamentally acknowledge their incorrect behavior and the harm of cheating. Because students cheat in their homework assignments, teachers would give them some punishments such as providing more assignments for them to do or subtract their scores of the final grade of the course, which would spend them more considerable time and efforts to complete extra assignments or affect their GPA, so they would not cheat in their assignments any more. For example, my roommate Jackie cheated in his homework of programming language course last semester by copy answers from others. After realizing his unhonest behavior, the professor gave him an extra assignment, a coding program which consists of one thousand lines of code. Due to his cheating, he spent more one-week time to finish this extra assignment and he completely understand that cheating is a terrible behavior. After that, he never cheat again and study pretty arduously. Therefore, providing punishment for cheating would help students understand the key of the problem and efficiently avoid this phenomenon.

Moreover, asking parents to help and making teachers giving other homework assignments are not viable. Because in the former method, parents cannot supervise their children at any time. So students still have opportunities to cheat. Plus, if parents really have much time supervising students, it would be a significant burden for parents, which is not efficient. On the other hand, if teachers or professors give other kinds of homework such as subjective problems, which is difficult for students to cheat. Of course, students may not ask their classmates for answers. Nevertheless, they could use smartphones or computers to search the questions online and obtain the answers, which is also inefficient. For instance, my brother John cheated in his homework on mathematics last week. Then the school commend his parents to supervise him. However, our parents still have their works to do, so they do not have sufficient time to ask the studying situation of my brother and my brother still cheat sometimes on his assignments even on exams. Consequently, parents' help and changes of questions would not crucially resolve the problem and cheating behaviors would not be avoided efficiently.

In sum, giving penalty or punishments could fundamentally solve the cheating problem by engender students realize the severity and other two methods would transiently improve the situation, but untenable.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 891, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'understands'.
Suggestion: understands
...this extra assignment and he completely understand that cheating is a terrible behavior. A...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 961, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'cheats'.
Suggestion: cheats
...terrible behavior. After that, he never cheat again and study pretty arduously. There...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, really, so, still, then, therefore, for example, for instance, of course, such as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2349.0 1977.66487455 119% => OK
No of words: 431.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45011600928 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8671862128 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505800464037 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 690.3 618.680645161 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.3998183286 48.9658058833 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.857142857 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5238095238 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.66666666667 5.45110844103 177% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 11.8709677419 25% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.85842293907 363% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382370581672 0.236089414692 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13026319859 0.076458572812 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0857689038836 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.266364346009 0.150856017488 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108872248934 0.0645574589148 169% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 11.7677419355 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 10.9000537634 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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