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.
While it may be true that with honor code program in Groveton college the cheating among students has been dropped during last five years, this author’s argument does not make a cogent case for recommending the honor code program. It is easy to understand that the same plan may be work for other universities and colleges too, but the author needs verifiable evidences to prove his/her claim.
First of all, the author concludes that if students agree to do not cheat, they are not going to cheat. That is not true. Every student already knows that they should not cheat but they still do. Even sometimes, students see their classmates cheating, but they do not report it because they are their friends or they do not want to get in trouble.
Additionally, the author just mentions the number of cheating during past five years but not the total number of students. Based on the author, there were thirty cases of cheating before the honor code program. Twenty-one cases of reported cheating for first year and the number dropped to fourteen after five years. These numbers do not make sense because we do not know the total number of students. Imagine the total number of students dropped to half amount after five years, and the cheating number dropped to half too. As a result, the cheating numbers has not been changed.
Lastly, the author recommends the same plan as Groveton college for other universities and colleges. There can be many differences between Groveton college and other colleges like the total number of students, and the ways to deal with cheating. For example, the administers of other colleges might not be willing to ruin their academic reputations by reporting cheating. They might give the first notice of cheating to their students without anybody else to know.
The author can make his/her claims persuasive when he/she gathers information about the total number of students and also honesty of students in Groveton college during five years. Also, the author should report the similarities and differences between the Groveton college and other universities. After answering these questions, the author can make such a conclusion.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 362 350
No. of Characters: 1762 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.362 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.867 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.39 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.053 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.897 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.353 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.129 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, may, so, still, while, even so, for example, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1811.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 359.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04456824513 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47657533863 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.465181058496 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.0185323279 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.3157894737 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8947368421 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26315789474 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.337737368145 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117734592236 0.0743258471296 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727301137529 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202238283917 0.128457276422 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451061570197 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.12 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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