The passage concludes that college and universities should adopt honor code as followed by Groveton College. The author highlights the benefits of adopting the honor code based on some and reports of Groveton College. According to arguer cheating has reduced to lower level in Groveton College after implementing honor code. Thus, this will also help to lower cheating among other college and universities. While at first reading the argument seems quite conceivable, a closer look spells out a number of assumptions that could undermine its assessment.
Firstly, the author states that over the period of time cheating rate in Groveton College has reduced significantly. He further tells that students took oath not to do cheating and also to apprise faculty member in case they find someone doing it. It may be the case that students are not following this honor code religiously, and they are not reporting the case of cheating to their teachers. Perhaps students are making some sort of agreement within themselves to help each other in examinations. If not all students are reporting the cheating, then the honor code is not reliable method to avoid it in examinations. Moreover, faculty may not be very alert in class during examinations as they may be relying on students to inform about the cheating. Thus, there is no guarantee that honor code is working properly and should be implemented by other college and universities too. In my opinion, before doing so a thorough survey should be done.
Secondly, report suggests that in first year twenty-one cases of cheating were reported while after five years the cases have reduced to fourteen. This cannot be taken as solid evidence to adopt the honor code widely by the other college and universities. Perhaps earlier students were taking the honor code seriously and over the period of time they started taking it for granted. Depending so much on students in such situation is not a wise idea. Maybe students are taking advantage of this reliability. The decrease in reports maybe due to the help students are providing to each other.
Lastly, the arguer talks about a recent survey in which majority of Groveton students have promoted the honor code. This survey indicates that students do not want to loose this type of arrangement made during examinations.This survey would be more considerate if it includes comment from faculty as well. Additionally, it is nowhere mentioned in the report whether number of cheating cases reported, are informed by students or teachers. This is an important question to be answered. As the author is assuming that the cases are apprised by the students. Here, assumptions should not be made and more clear argument should be provided. This will help to know whether honor code is a trustworthy way to lower cheating cases or not.
To conclude, though author has done some research before backing the prospect of adopting honor code widely by college and universities, an in-depth scrutiny reveals that none of the arguments put forth are backed by exhaustive analysis; thus, providing little credible support. As it stands, the recommendation looks flawed in multiple respects and may not give result the author expects.
- The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University."Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega profess 59
- TOEFL integrated writing: Altruism 3
- The best way to solve environmental problems caused by consumer-generated waste is for towns and cities to impose strict limits on the amount of trash they will accept from each household. 50
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than their friends. 60
- The general welfare of a nation's people is a better indication of that nation's greatness than are the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disag 50
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK. or duplicated to argument 1.
argument 3 -- not exactly
----------------
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 528 350
No. of Characters: 2641 1500
No. of Different Words: 240 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.794 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.002 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.611 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 197 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 110 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.786 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.291 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.463 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 42, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...irstly, the author states that over the period of time cheating rate in Groveton College has r...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 239, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'does'.
Suggestion: does
...aculty member in case they find someone doing it. It may be the case that students ar...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 332, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...g the honor code seriously and over the period of time they started taking it for granted. Dep...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 168, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
... indicates that students do not want to loose this type of arrangement made during ex...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 224, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...of arrangement made during examinations.This survey would be more considerate if it ...
^^^^
Line 7, column 486, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...s an important question to be answered. As the author is assuming that the cases a...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, while, sort of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2704.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 527.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13092979127 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74040324088 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46110056926 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 856.8 705.55239521 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.5389505068 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5714285714 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8214285714 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42857142857 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.389607594795 0.218282227539 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110461825822 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0764716506758 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223058476511 0.128457276422 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0829479588633 0.0628817314937 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.