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 prompt, the Groveton college has become successful to drop the cheating cases by the students by replacing the old honor code with a new one. It cites the evidence of the reduction of cheating incidence from one year to the following year and also the findings from a student survey to justify the recommendation. Although the recommendation sounds well-suited at a first glance, there are three specific questions that need to be answered before accepting the claim.
To begin, is the recent report of increasing number of cheating true for Groveton college? It may be possible that the report has mentioned clearly the name of the colleges and universities which are accused of higher cheating incidents and Groveton's name was not there. Perhaps, Groveton college was one of the pioneer colleges who kept the cheating rate in control by the faculty honor code. If any of the above mentioned circumstances become true, the recommendation will hold no water. Therefore, the writer needs to answer this question properly to accept his perspective.
Secondly, are the students free from biased behavior? It is inarguably true that a student will care for his friend will never want to led him into troubles. In this connection, it may be possible that the number of cheating cases have been increased many folds but other students don't report them to maintain their friendships. Perhaps, the students who do fraudulent activities during exam, threatened other students not expose them in front of the teachers. If any of the above point becomes true, the outcome of the Groveton College as mentioned in the prompt is highly possible and clearly demonstrates the opposite of the claim of the author. Therefore, without the satisfactory response to this question, the argument is seriously weakened.
Last but not the least, does the survey represent the current scenario as a whole? It may be possible that students who are involved in forgery during exams are the respondents of the survey. Or, it is also a possibility that the majority of the students who participated in the survey did not know the previous honor code which was ruled out five years ago. If any of the aforementioned incidents become true, the argument as a whole is seriously flawed and we can't agree with the recommendation. Therefore, the prompt writer has to add detailed response to this question as well.
To conclude, the cheating incident is certainly a threat to every college as well as university and it is certainly a appreciable gesture by the Groveton college to reduce the number of cheats. However, the current approach as suggested by the writer has some serious fallacies because of avoiding answering some obvious questions as mentioned in my writing. If the author can provide satisfactory responses to these questions, the argument will be warranted and we can agree with his claim.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 479 350
No. of Characters: 2368 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.678 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.944 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.782 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 140 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 110 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.773 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.128 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.773 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.3 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.497 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 282, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...increased many folds but other students dont report them to maintain their friendshi...
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Line 7, column 463, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...t as a whole is seriously flawed and we cant agree with the recommendation. Therefor...
^^^^
Line 9, column 117, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... well as university and it is certainly a appreciable gesture by the Groveton col...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as to, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2423.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 478.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0690376569 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84553360567 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470711297071 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 758.7 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.3992333273 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.136363636 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7272727273 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.18181818182 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.342801120236 0.218282227539 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0972422107595 0.0743258471296 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0999868223803 0.0701772020484 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194515177616 0.128457276422 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699174367677 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => 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: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 98.500998004 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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