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.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In the argument, the author claims adpoting an honor code in Groveton College reduced cheating drastically compared to traditional surviellance by professors/ faculty. He also claims that all universities and colleges should adopt honor code to reduce cheating among students. The argument is based on a series of unsubstantiated arguments and therefore unpersuasive as it stands.
First of all, the author did not provide information about the conducted survey. How was this survey performed? Are the results verifiable and Trustworthy? The students could have connived a plot, to protect and not reveal their peers who involved in malpractices. To conduct a veritable survey in this regard, the college should have used additional source of proofs like a cctv camera for instance. It also lacks to speak for, which set of students reported for the said survey - were the students highly intellectual or average or distributed? This could have helped to get some better insight on the argument which the passage clearly didn't provide.
Moreover, the author did not specify how well the original supervision by professors were i.e. how strict were the professors were. There is a very little evidence in the shift of difficulty of exam levels. Over the years Groveton college could have reduced the difficulty level of exams thereby eliminating the need for malpracticing in the first place.
The argument doesn't tell anything about the demographics of the student pool. Cultures have a lot of impact in how the students are behaving. In some cultures students consider malpracticing as a sin and shun it. This could be one of the reason why Groveton was able to reduce cheating practices. Other colleges with varied culture heatmap would not be able to fully take advantage of the honor code.
Lastly, What kind of college is Groveton - does it specialize in harder subjects like STEM or does it work with creative subjects like Arts, Literature ?.In case of creative subjects like arts or literature where there is no single right answer, depends on unique thinking and could be traced even if someone tries to cheat, But in case of STEM subjects where a single set of procedural answer is possible thereby can be easily forged. This key info is missing, hence cannot generalize it across gamut of colleges.
In conclusion, the author's evidence lends little credible support to his allegation. To bolster the argument, the author should provide more information about the way the survey was conducted, on what set of people the survey were considered. He could also reinforce his argument by stating more information like How is the Groveton's exam pattern, student demographic, core study fields compares with all colleges.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 15 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 444 350
No. of Characters: 2235 1500
No. of Different Words: 234 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.59 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.034 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.705 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.304 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.163 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.478 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.267 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.467 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.06 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, lastly, moreover, so, therefore, well, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, first of all, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2294.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 442.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19004524887 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78142849136 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529411764706 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 77.3676808107 57.8364921388 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.7391304348 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2173913043 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.256958847766 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0706095464966 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.080217956297 0.0701772020484 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130405910775 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0874348532819 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => 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: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 98.500998004 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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