The following appeared as an editorial in the student newspaper of Groveton College.
"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."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The editorial states that in order to combat the rise in cheating among colleges and universities, a honor code similar to Groveton college must be adopted. This conclusion is based on unstated assumptions which weaken the conclusion for the following reasons.
The newsletter states that after the adoption of the new honor code in Groveton college the number of cases of cheating have reduced over the years compared to when faculty members monitored the students. This premise is flawed as it draws a direct relation between the number of students actually cheating in the exams and the number of such cases being reported. The conclusion is based on the assumption that, since fewer cases have been reported by the students, fewer students are cheating in their exams. On the other hand, it is possible that more students are involved in cheating, but the cases have not been reported. If this is true then the conclusion stands water.
Moreover, as the honor code requires the students to report the faculty members, there is no way of determining the actual number of people cheating in the exams. It is likely that under the strict supervision of the teachers, fewer students copied in the exams. Since the honor code relies upon the students to report their fellow peers, there is no way to verify whether less number of students are cheating.
Finally, the author claims that majority of the students stated in a survey that they are less likely to cheat in the exams, if the honor code is in place. If the two reasons stated above stand true, then the students are more likely to prefer the honor code as it would allow them to easily cheat in the exam without the supervision of the faculty members.
In conclusion, if the author can provide sufficient evidence to the above claims, the author's assumptions will stand true and other colleges must adopt this honor code.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 322 350
No. of Characters: 1529 1500
No. of Different Words: 139 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.236 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.748 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.352 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 107 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.392 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.412 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.67 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.146 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the rise in cheating among colleges and universities, a honor code similar to Gr...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ting among colleges and universities, a honor code similar to Groveton college ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... conclusion for the following reasons. The newsletter states that after the ado...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
..., but the cases have not been reported. If this is true then the conclusion stands...
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Suggestion:
...r less number of students are cheating. Finally, the author claims that majority...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, if, moreover, so, then, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1577.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 322.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89751552795 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42886727559 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.45652173913 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9626760405 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.307692308 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7692307692 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15384615385 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.317111590541 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117250811122 0.0743258471296 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0921931876176 0.0701772020484 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181046716741 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584645634452 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => 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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