Argument Topic: 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 t

The author in the argument concludes that in order to reduce cheating among students, all colleges and universities should support or subscribe honor codes similar to Groveton’s college. The author’s conclusion mainly based on the assumption that when Groveton college induced and implemented a honor code which undertake agreement from student to not to cheat and signal if anyone of his friend find cheating, the cheating among students reduces gradually. Moreover, the author assumes that teachers closely monitored students under the system and teacher reported that cheating digit reduced per year. The author’s argument have several flawed assumption in it.

Firstly, the author in the argument assumes “Because of this, therefore, after this” fallacy to make conclusion. Could all students in college or university loyal to teachers of university ? It may be the case that students were well united and they made unity that if anyone student found in cheating, no one should tell to any teacher. If this is possible then the author’s assumption reach to fiasco. In spite of cheating, there was no notification to teacher, ultimately the report of Groveon college came with errors.

Secondly, the author in the argument without providing strong evidence make conclusion that all universities and colleges should adopt honor code to reduce cheating rate. As the university varies, its students , teachers, amenities, loyality, ranking also varies. The atmosphere and circumstances in other universities might be tense and not comparable to Groveton college. So, we cant say that correlation proves causality It may be possible that students in other colleges were highly dense while in Groveton college were less dense as compare to other. There is no statistics data and population curve of students in university.

Moreover, the authtor does not mention the conditions of survey, validity of survey, characteristics of survey to make conclusion. Survey might contain various errors , ignored by the author. In addition, survey’s data can hardly be used to draw conclusion or correlation. And, hence we cannot say that correlation proves causality. To make conclusion well sounding, the author should mention details of survey , people included in survey, characteristics and validity of survey,etc.

In summary, the author’s conclusion is seized by many fallacies. In order to make conclusion good sounding and cogent, author should provide statistics, population data, survey conditions, survey validity, survey characteristics, loyality of students in Groveton college, similarity between other universities and Goventon college, etc. If the author includes such details in argument , the conclusion of the argument will definitely be well compelling and corroborating.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, while, in addition, in summary, in spite of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2407.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 419.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.7446300716 5.12650576532 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10043746698 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513126491647 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 754.2 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.7120455868 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.409090909 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0454545455 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.18181818182 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296240499608 0.218282227539 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0916187283613 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103434545597 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182977419816 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.144005985141 0.0628817314937 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.3550499002 73% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.01 12.5979740519 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 420 350
No. of Characters: 2293 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.527 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.46 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.814 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 198 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 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: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.547 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.532 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5