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 writer of the argument argues that all colleges must implement honor codes in order to prevent cheating among students. This is based on the premises that cheating is increasing as per recent report and the desirable results achieved by Groveton College by implementing honor codes 5 years ago and moreover, the survey, which showed that students are less likely to cheat with honor codes are in place. The argument seems true at first sight, however, on deeper analysis, it becomes clear that certain relevant aspects have not been taken into account, leading to a number of unanswered questions and logical flaws.
One such flaw is the questionable conclusion that only honor codes have caused a decline in cheating. In other words, the writer has assumed the unverified cause and effect relationship between implementation of honor codes by Groveton College and reduction in number of cheatings. However, there may be other causes or reason such as strict vigilance by teachers or implementation of severe punishment for those found doing cheating or increase in number of invigilators in order to increase the teacher-student ratio, which forced the students to abstain from cheating. For example, a report, by the behavioural scientists in 2006 which conducted the experiment on students under closed observation of vigilance, had concluded that students are more likely to bind by the visible vigilance than by the moral codes. Thus, in order to make the argument more reasonable, the writer would need to prove that only honor codes were implemented by Groveton College which has reduced the cheating.
Moreover, the writer’s argument is incorrectly based on the unanswered question that results achieved by Groveton College would also applicable in other colleges. In other words, the writer has assumed the sampling flaw that application of results achieved in certain condition holds merit for all other conditions. However, there may be reasons that the conditions are entirely different such as the intake of students in Groveton College in the last five years has improved in terms of their academic credentials or Groveton College may have implemented an admission procedure which requires background check from their earlier schools. For example, a college in India, that is Shri Ram College of Commerce, had implemented improved criteria for admission into the college and made it mandatory that students who has achieved more than 90 per cent marks in school are only eligible to apply. This has resulted into the enrolment of brilliant students who are not dependent on cheating for their marks. Therefore, in order to overcome this flaw, the writer should provide answer to the intake of students and admission criteria in all colleges in the last five years and Groveton College.
Finally, the writer arbitrarily assumed the analogical relation between recent report on cheating and recent survey of students of Groveton College. In other words the writer has assumed unverified relationship between that recent reports on cheating are viable and would continue to show the same results in future and responses of students who stated that they are less likely to cheat with pursuing the codes. However, there may the case that the rise in cheating is ephemeral and this has highlighted for this year due to some unforeseen events such as poor intake of students in the last 2 years and moreover, the writer may find that survey covers only those students who had abstained from cheating thus, ignored the responses of students who cheated despite codes. For example a study conducted in 2016 on students of 5 major colleges of USA found that number of students who continued to cheat despite moral commitment are higher than the number of students who stopped cheating because of moral codes. Thus, to render the argument valid, the writer should demonstrate the trend in cheating for last 10 years and responses of students who continued to cheat after implementing codes.
While concluding, it is apparent that there are several logical flaws and unanswered question in the writer’s attempt to recommend the honor codes for all colleges. After close examination of the argument presented, the recommendations given in the above paragraphs show how the argument may be strengthened and made more logically sound.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 698 350
No. of Characters: 3585 1500
No. of Different Words: 269 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.14 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.136 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.65 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 267 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 215 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 159 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 75 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.238 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.924 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.565 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.131 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 31.0 13.6137724551 228% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 107.0 55.5748502994 193% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3673.0 2260.96107784 162% => OK
No of words: 698.0 441.139720559 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26217765043 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.1400087186 4.56307096286 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73131439503 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 204.123752495 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.392550143266 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1138.5 705.55239521 161% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.3264473053 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 174.904761905 119.503703932 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.2380952381 23.324526521 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.445512709254 0.218282227539 204% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152625080141 0.0743258471296 205% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0921788821851 0.0701772020484 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255184236556 0.128457276422 199% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115393516135 0.0628817314937 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.0 14.3799401198 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.82 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 150.0 98.500998004 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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