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.
Groveton college believes that on adopting honor code it has been able to reduce cheating to a great extent. At the first glance it seems quite convincing but on close scrutiny, it can be observed that many granular details had been neglected and overlooked.
Firstly, this system is totally dependent on the students. Students can easily take advantage of the system and score well. This would result in good academic performance and also validate low cheating rates. Unless and until some kind of check is placed, the system is not devoid of loopholes and may serve as a curse rather as a boon.
Secondly, there is no mention of batch size for each year. Under the previous system if there were a hundred students and under the honor code, if there are seventy students, then there is apparently a rise in cheating practices. Thus the argument stands vague.
Thirdly, even if Groveton college was successful in reducing cheating practices, it may not be same for all other colleges. Students' mentality plays an important role in the success of this system.
Overall quite a few points need to be analyzed at a molecular level and pieces of evidence should be provided to support the same. Doing such would strengthen the argument.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, firstly, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, kind of, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 13.6137724551 15% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 55.5748502994 40% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1027.0 2260.96107784 45% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 210.0 441.139720559 48% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89047619048 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.80675409584 4.56307096286 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50943344917 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.652380952381 0.468620217663 139% => OK
syllable_count: 324.9 705.55239521 46% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0907725766 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.0 119.503703932 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1538461538 23.324526521 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4615384615 5.70786347227 183% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276044833776 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0834905697959 0.0743258471296 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0986456607767 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140947787854 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0929382852861 0.0628817314937 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 14.3799401198 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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