[a习作temp] 0910AW 同主题写作第三期 Argument242 by Willpower determine it---WONDERFUL [复制链接]

This argument presented us with the author's suggestion that these institutions should all adopt honor codes like that of Groveton College(GC)'s in order to curb the rising tendency in cheating among students, citing a seemingly decline of the cases of cheating and an unconvincing survey, which ultimately rendered his argument insufficient and doubtful.

First and foremost, the author mistakenly took it for granted that these colleges facing the deteriorating cheating problem were just in the same condition as that of GC's and thereby GC's successful system could be transplanted, GC's performance could be replicated. But as far as I'm concerned, different schools with different characteristics located in different locations might have their own respective reasons, which should be taken as a priority to consider in solving this serious cheating problem or the outlook might look dismal, with honor code fitting not well and cheating still growing and monitoring system missing, the school board would perhaps be put into a serious dilemma again. Even if those colleges and universities are much the same as another, the author has not yet fully proved that by solely relying on the students' promise of not cheating and invigilating each other, GC's actual cheating cases truly were in a decline. Instead, those chronicle numbers recorded in the past few years could only raise others' speculations: could it be more group cheating and bribery that have kept each student's mouth shut, thus little number is reported? or could it be some other unexpected dramatic changes in GC that caused the downturn of the cheating number? Or even was it a premeditated trick that the students were playing with the solemnity of examination? If so, more persuasive investigations should be carried out to bolster the author's argument.

Additionally, the survey the author cited to further support his conclusion could be possibly, without some detailed information about the background of those respondents, based on nothing but some casual and fickle words in order to please those council members and especially school board members. However, if in some emergency situations, say when not well-prepared, or when there is a big chance to cheat in the meantime escape the eyes, most students would be much likely to take a risk. In this case, the survey simply doesn't mean anything, thus it cannot buttress the author's final conclusion of the honor code's effectiveness and efficiency.

To make the author's stance of introducing honor code to a larger scale more sensible, more convincing evidences on the very exact reasons of cheating in different institutions and more reliable and comprehensive surveys are to be offered.