Hortatory

Eviana Yuni Afra
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Educational Plagiarist Should Be Punished
In education, plagiarism is serious disease, thus it needs harsh punishment. I believe that it is important to academically punish educational plagiarist by penalizing his final score or even disqualify him from the test. Why is the urgency? I will explain it in these following reasons
First, plagiarism worsen the image of education
Image of education is determined by the originality of the students’ work, when society knows that the work of the students is only the product of plagiarism. It will worsen the image of education
Second, plagiarism increase the laziness of students
Imitating someone’s idea is easier than creating original idea, moreover, if they don’t get any warning for instance, decreasing the score. They will be lazier because they will think, “why should I bother making my essay by myself, copying others is easier”
Third, plagiarism means we don’t give appreciation to the author.
It is hard to find an idea to write an essay, when our essay is easily copied by another person and he doesn’t get the proper punishment. Later on we will be reluctant to create a new idea because our previous idea wasn’t appreciated.
Seeing those three reasons, I suggest the government to penalize the final score of plagiarist to stop plagiarism culture.