"To combat the recently reported dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students, these institutions should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's, 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 an old-fashioned system in which students were closely monitored by teachers and an average of thirty cases of cheating per year were reported. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey conducted by the Groveton honor council, a majority of students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without."
The argument highlights about a report on the rising menace of cheating by the students in the college and university exams. To mitigate or abate this habit of cheating, the author emphasizes to adopt a code called " Honor Code " which has been implemented by the Groveton Universoty. The sweeping conclusion of the author based on unsubstantiated assumptions seems to suffer from severe flaws.
The first and foremost flaw is the very integrity of the code named " Honor Code" which relies on the the response of the students. It has also replaced the rigorous monitoring by the teachers which used to report at least 30 cases of cheating every year. The statement itself undermines the integrity of the honor code. The code relies on the students who may be very prone to fallibility because cheating is beneficial to them in scoring of marks and hence they can always manipulate the truth in their favour. On the other hand the old system of teachers' monitoring seems to be impartial and effective as they are not prone to untruthfulness as there is no motive of self gain. Hence it clearly refutes the flimsy conclusion of the author.
The second flaw which needs attention is the author's reasoning about the honor code of the Groveton University to be very effective based on a survey which says that after adoption of the code, the cases of teaching has reduced to 21 in the first year and after a span of 5 years to only 14.
The author nowhere mentions any detail about the authenticity of the survey. Further the data also seems to be dubious as the decreasing number of the reported cases of cheating cannot reliably establish that there has been actual decrease in the number of cheating cases.
The third flaw in the argument is that author reasons for the adoption of the honor code based on the agreement of the students that they shall not resort to the unfair means in their academic endeavors. This is clearly an unreasonable approach as the students are prone to speaking lies. Hence their agreement that they shall not resort to cheating is flawed. There must be an impartial monitoring by the teachers or the administrative department so that this menace of cheating can be discouraged among the students.
Hence it can be reasonably stated that the argument being established by the author to adopt the Honor code for all the colleges and universities is flawed and are hence indefensible. The author must establish an impartial monitoring by the independent parties to curb the menace of cheating. Infact at a point of time it can be said that the " Honor Code" if adopted in all the college and universities can severely dent the quality of the products from the institutions as it shall foster greater inclination to unfair means in the exams.
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Essay evaluation 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: 22 15
No. of Words: 476 350
No. of Characters: 2257 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.671 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.742 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.673 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.636 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.738 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 326, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...iversoty. The sweeping conclusion of the author based on unsubstantiated assumpti...
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Line 3, column 109, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...' Honor Code' which relies on the the response of the students. It has also r...
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Line 3, column 109, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...' Honor Code' which relies on the the response of the students. It has also r...
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Line 3, column 692, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ess as there is no motive of self gain. Hence it clearly refutes the flimsy conclusio...
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Line 3, column 754, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es the flimsy conclusion of the author. The second flaw which needs attention is...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...he students are prone to speaking lies. Hence their agreement that they shall not res...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... be discouraged among the students. Hence it can be reasonably stated that the ar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, second, so, then, third, at least, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 480.0 441.139720559 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85625 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71309757243 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416666666667 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 738.9 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.069279939 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.684210526 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2631578947 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26315789474 5.70786347227 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.272006462703 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.086089503284 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0645394894032 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150785381813 0.128457276422 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463131141994 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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