In the prompt, it is recommended that all instituitions should adopt the honor code system similar to Groveton College in order for decreasing cheating among students. The recommendation is based on two factors. First one is that reported cases of cheating decreased after the system was adopted. Another, quoting from a survey that students are less likely to cheat when the system is in operation. The recommendation looks convincing at first, but if we dig deep into the matter, it is apparent that the author took several assumptions that were unwarranted.
First of all, were the cases reported by students scrutinized for validity? They might be false allegations made by young students just to look good under the honor code. There's no good in making the students report false cases of cheating against one another. It only destroys the morale, environment ,and relationships among the students. Students might get more corrupted to gain a good reputation under this honor code system which is initiated to reduce cheating on the first place.
Secondly, which category of students participated on the survey? It might be the case that students who are in good positions, reporting numerous cases of cheating, are the only ones who participated on the survey. Students who had been accused of cheating might be too frustrated to even take part in it. So, if the survey was not carried out in a scientifically correct method, the results might lead to wrong conclusions. In that case, the claim that students were less likely to cheat under honor code would not hold water.
Thirdly, it is mentioned that on the fifth year of honor code, cases of cheating among students plummated. Were the mentioned decrease in cheating reported among the same batch of students? If it ws not among the same batch of students, it might be the case that the later batch were more honest. So, reports made were less in number. It could have also happened that the students just decided among themselves that they would not reporst case against one another further. As a result, the number of reported case decreased. The author need to elaborate the claim that reduced number of reprted case of cheating really signified that the actual cases of cheating declined.
To sum up, we can clearly say that the recommendation, as it stand now, seems to have been made on several flawed assumptions. The author need to show evidence that would carify these mentioned questions arised. Otherwise, the claims would be invalidated.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 172, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
...just to look good under the honor code. Theres no good in making the students report f...
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Line 3, column 302, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...It only destroys the morale, environment ,and relationships among the students. St...
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Line 7, column 320, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: less
...were more honest. So, reports made were less in number. It could have also happened that the s...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, really, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as a result, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 14.8657303371 13% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2103.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01909307876 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69616861339 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477326968974 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 643.5 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.6456327548 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.12 118.986275619 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.76 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286349157583 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0903967342232 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829908427613 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161286811998 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0850608443908 0.0667264976115 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.1392134831 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 100.480337079 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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