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242. 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."

Merely based on superficial evidences, the writer of the editorial suggested honor codes similar to Groveton’s should be adopted by the institutions in order to decrease the cheating cases among college and university students. From my point of view, the argument given by the writer suffers several logical problems.

To begin with, we could not draw the conclusion that Groveton’s honor codes are successful from the data and survey given by the writer. Firstly, although the cheating cases have undergo a drop, slightly in my opinion, the writer didn’t provide the base number of students who attended the examination or some other academic endeavor in the year been surveyed and thus we can not get the percentage of the cheating cases. Unless the percentage of the cheating cases which reflects the true efficiency of the honor code is given, we can not hastily conclude that the honor code is successful. Secondly, the writer gave a survey result, which arouses my suspiciousness. We all know that the surveyor of any survey must be cross-bencher, but the survey given by the writer was conducted by the Groveton honor council which is in favor of the honor code. And the majority of students been surveyed cannot represented all the students’ thoughts, actually cheating is always happening among the minority of students.

Furthermore, even though the honor code in Groveton is successful and efficient, it is entirely possible that the other colleges and universities are very different from Groveton. For example, the students in Groveton may think it is good way for students to notify the cheating behavior than teachers, since the students are more familiar than the teachers with real situation, while students in other colleges and universities hold the opinion that there will be much fairness with the monitoring of teachers. Without accounting for important possible difference between the Groveton and other colleges and universities, the arguer cannot reasonably prove the propose method will help the other colleges and universities to reduce the number of cheating cases.

Finally, the dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students might due to some other reasons. It is possible that the students may undergo a high pressure of huge amount of assignments and some other academic endeavor and they do not have enough time and energy to finish it. In order to meet the need of teachers and to get a favorable score, they unwillingly choose to cheat.

In sum, the institutions should make a deep analysis and broad survey to excavate the real reason of the dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students. The writer of the editorial seems to get some idea to solve this problem, but in my opinion it is not convincing as I illustrated above.

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发表于 2009-6-14 14:37:18 |只看该作者

Merely based on superficial evidences, the writer of the editorial suggested honor codes similar to Groveton’s should be adopted by the institutions in order to decrease the cheating cases among college and university students. From my point of view, the argument given by the writer suffers several logical problems.

To begin with, we could not draw the conclusion that Groveton’s honor codes are successful from the data and survey given by the writer. Firstly, although the cheating cases have undergo a drop, slightly in my opinion, the writer didn’t provide the base number of students who attended the examination or some other academic endeavor in the year been surveyed and thus we can not get the percentage of the cheating 比我写的人数有说服力cases. Unless the percentage of the cheating cases which reflects the true efficiency of the honor code is given, we can not hastily conclude that the honor code is successful. Secondly, the writer gave a survey result, which arouses my suspiciousness. We all know that the surveyor of any survey must be cross-bencher, but the survey given by the writer was conducted by the Groveton honor council which is in favor of the honor code. And the majority of students been surveyed cannot represented all the students’ thoughts, actually cheating is always happening among the minority of students.

Furthermore, even though the honor code in Groveton is successful and efficient, it is entirely possible that the other colleges and universities are very different from Groveton. For example, the students in Groveton may think it is good way for students to notify the cheating behavior than teachers, since the students are more familiar than the teachers with real situation, while students in other colleges and universities hold the opinion that there will be much fairness with the monitoring of teachers. Without accounting for important possible difference between the Groveton and other colleges and universities, the arguer cannot reasonably prove the propose method will help the other colleges and universities to reduce the number of cheating cases.

Finally, the dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students might due to some other reasons. It is possible that the students may undergo a high pressure of huge amount of assignments and some other academic endeavor and they do not have enough time and energy to finish it. In order to meet the need of teachers and to get a favorable score, they unwillingly choose to cheat. 这一段是否有必要说明一下，其他原因导致作弊增加为什么不需要honor codes?

In sum, the institutions should make a deep analysis and broad survey to excavate the real reason of the dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students. The writer of the editorial seems to get some idea to solve this problem, but in my opinion it is not convincing as I illustrated above.

反例举得很不错，例子能再分析深入些就更好了~~粉红色的句子我以前也写，但我觉得跟前面重复就没再写了，把它们换成另外的例子或分析是不是能使文章内容更丰富些。

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