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.
The conclusion here drawn is that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to that of Groveton’s in order to decrease cheating among students. This argument is full of assumptions that needs to be clearly examined in order to reach the conclusion.
First, the author is saying that the Groveton college has successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code, which requires students who has agreed not to cheat to notify the faculty members they suspect that others have cheated. How can we surely say that the students are honestly reporting the cheating, it may happen that they are saving their classmates or friends who are actually cheating. This can be the reason for decrease in cheating in Groveton college and not honour code adoption.
Secondly, it is mentioned in the argument that after five years the cheating has decreased to fourteen than it was in first year which was twenty one in number. It is not mentioned about the number of students taken into account for the analysis. It may happen that the students have decreased in the college and the number that is showing decrease in cheating might be more in relation to the number of students. It is not clearly mentioned anywhere about the logic which has been implemented in calculating the decrease in number of cheating.
Thirdly, it is mentioned that all college and universities should adopt this honour codes similar to Groveton’s college ignored to decrease cheating among students. We do not know about the students who are studying in other colleges. They might not not be ethically more strong than the students in Groveton college. Adopting an honorary code is more about ethics and moral values, so we cannot be sure that the other college students will be same like Groveton’s.
The author should provide valid points and clear these assumptions before making any conclusions. The above mentioned argument is not convincing enough to reach at any conclusion
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK but not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 327 350
No. of Characters: 1622 1500
No. of Different Words: 146 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.252 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.96 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.513 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.547 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.4 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.378 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.647 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 140, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-one
...een than it was in first year which was twenty one in number. It is not mentioned about th...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 415, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... in relation to the number of students. It is not clearly mentioned anywhere about...
^^
Line 8, column 252, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: not
... studying in other colleges. They might not not be ethically more strong than the stude...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, honestly, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
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: 1675.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12232415902 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72294580862 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455657492355 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0226423002 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.666666667 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.397149677922 0.218282227539 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135720807805 0.0743258471296 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123483724018 0.0701772020484 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213591186678 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.14543107385 0.0628817314937 231% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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