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
According to the report, the conclusion made is that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton’s, as Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code. However, to completely accept or evaluate this report, three of the following questions are needed to be answered.
Firstly, it is said that the Groveton’s honor code “replaced” a system, but doesn’t indicate what was the “system” before adopting the honor code was. What is that “system” was efficient than the honor code? The report however doesn’t present any evidence regarding what kind of system was followed before adopting the honor code, and we cannot compare whether the honor code is really as efficient as the previous system that was followed by the Groveton’s College to make sure that the students don’t cheat.
Secondly, how many teachers actually reported the cases for cheating? It might be possible that, only a few number of teachers, perhaps the same teachers were giving the reports (maybe of their own departments, and not all other departments of the college). It is however necessary to know whether the reported cases were from a certain department or from certain teachers- who every year gave the report while some of the teachers were never asked for the report. If this holds true, then it might weaken the report’s recommendation.
The students prematurely assumed that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Although the cheating rates seemed decreasing in the previous year, but how can be they sure that the overall rates might decrease? What if the new batch students would be the ones who cheat the most? Teachers will then encounter more students cheating than before. The report doesn’t provide any evidence that the student, specifically the new coming students, would never cheat, or the cheating rates won’t decrease because of their in-coming. The recommendation would be weakened if this case happens.
As all the above questions are unanswered in the report, more evidence is needed to accept the recommendation made in the report. Only if the questions are answered with relevant evidence, this report stands true and can be considered acceptable in all terms.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 374 350
No. of Characters: 1845 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.398 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.933 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.539 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.412 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.343 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 104, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
...ting? It might be possible that, only a few number of teachers, perhaps the same teachers ...
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Line 3, column 409, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...s- who every year gave the report while some of the teachers were never asked for the repor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, really, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1929.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 369.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22764227642 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75127952081 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.50406504065 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 582.3 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.7478532966 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.470588235 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7058823529 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => 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: 0.376102944319 0.218282227539 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127485897523 0.0743258471296 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127922333288 0.0701772020484 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209932645215 0.128457276422 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136158360902 0.0628817314937 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
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: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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