Homework Is Wrong Persuasive Essay
English Persuasive Essay
Yuan. Yao
February 10, 2014
Being a high school student is never easy. Not only have you to study hard, finish the homework, and get good grades on classes, but also you need to do extra curriculum activities, community services, and sports in order to meet the graduation requirements and to fulfill the parents’ expectations. Often times you find yourself in a dilemma between schoolwork and outside duty. You only have time to do one thing well, yet you want both of them to be finished perfectly. What would you do to accomplish them both extraordinarily? To many students, cheating seems to be “low-hanging fruit solution” for their obnoxious problem. A research done by the Stanford University has shown that …show more content…
Those people usually stay up late to finish their homework and to study for the tests. According to Sylviane Duval, a professor at the Health Behavior News Center, “only about 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep on an average school night.” One of the anonymous students leaves the comment under the article: “I sleep mostly at 2a.m. because I’m always up late doing a ton load of homework to get straight As. Some of my friends just copy other’s homework and cheat on the tests, ironically, they get As also.” Cheating makes you gain unfair advantages over the persevering students who sacrifice their sleeping time in exchange of the good grades. It is unjust for the entire school community if the grades cannot reflect one’s ability …show more content…
As a student, I know how easily it is to get addicted to cheating. After all, it is the fastest way to achieve good grades without trying hard. Also, it seams to have low costs as long as you stay smart and not getting caught. Nevertheless, we must realize that cheating is not learning. It will not help you to study in the long run. Instead, it will enslave you, deprive your ability of thinking, and alienate you from your friends. All of these consequences will drag you deeper into cheating, which now becomes a vicious circle that you can hardly get out of. Moreover, although cheating has low costs and great benefits in some students’ eyes, once you get caught, you will pay a heave price for the behavior. You will have an honor violation on your transcript which will be viewed by the college councilors during the admission. What are they going to think about you and your character when they see the honor violation? They will view you as a person who lacks integrity. Even though you get good SAT scores, great GPAs, and loads of amazing activities, I bet the college admission committee will still seriously re-consider your
Yuan. Yao
February 10, 2014
Being a high school student is never easy. Not only have you to study hard, finish the homework, and get good grades on classes, but also you need to do extra curriculum activities, community services, and sports in order to meet the graduation requirements and to fulfill the parents’ expectations. Often times you find yourself in a dilemma between schoolwork and outside duty. You only have time to do one thing well, yet you want both of them to be finished perfectly. What would you do to accomplish them both extraordinarily? To many students, cheating seems to be “low-hanging fruit solution” for their obnoxious problem. A research done by the Stanford University has shown that …show more content…
Those people usually stay up late to finish their homework and to study for the tests. According to Sylviane Duval, a professor at the Health Behavior News Center, “only about 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep on an average school night.” One of the anonymous students leaves the comment under the article: “I sleep mostly at 2a.m. because I’m always up late doing a ton load of homework to get straight As. Some of my friends just copy other’s homework and cheat on the tests, ironically, they get As also.” Cheating makes you gain unfair advantages over the persevering students who sacrifice their sleeping time in exchange of the good grades. It is unjust for the entire school community if the grades cannot reflect one’s ability …show more content…
As a student, I know how easily it is to get addicted to cheating. After all, it is the fastest way to achieve good grades without trying hard. Also, it seams to have low costs as long as you stay smart and not getting caught. Nevertheless, we must realize that cheating is not learning. It will not help you to study in the long run. Instead, it will enslave you, deprive your ability of thinking, and alienate you from your friends. All of these consequences will drag you deeper into cheating, which now becomes a vicious circle that you can hardly get out of. Moreover, although cheating has low costs and great benefits in some students’ eyes, once you get caught, you will pay a heave price for the behavior. You will have an honor violation on your transcript which will be viewed by the college councilors during the admission. What are they going to think about you and your character when they see the honor violation? They will view you as a person who lacks integrity. Even though you get good SAT scores, great GPAs, and loads of amazing activities, I bet the college admission committee will still seriously re-consider your