Blog7 Issue paragraph --Yalin Chen

Blog7-- issue paragraph

By Yalin Chen

The fundamental reason of International students’ plagiarism is a moral deal instead of the cultural differences. Plagiarism is discussed by people in academic study since a long time ago. Nowadays, it is especially prevailing among international students because they are easily to involve plagiarism. However, these students are intentional to commit plagiarism; they know the serious consequence of plagiarism, but they risk the punishment of being suspended by schools to get better grades. It is a moral deal and they choose to commit. Nevertheless, in the “Cheating Across Cultures”, Elizabeth Redden analyses the reasons of international students’ plagiarism. She claims that the cultures differences, like the differences of educational systems are the main reason to explain their plagiarism. However, even under a same educational system, plagiarism is still unavoidable. Recently, Richard perez-pena and jess bidgood reported that 125 students have cheated on their final exam. Even the students in the Harvard, one of the most famous universities, can not avoid plagiarism. Consequently, students understand plagiarism clearly and the culture differences or language barriers are the excuses for absolving from punishments. Therefore, it is essential to learn the most fundamental reason of plagiarism and trying to figure out this issue on a right way. Schools should mostly focus on changing their mind of plagiarism, like to emphasize the importance of a game’s rules, which are claimed in the Stanley Fish’s article, “Plagiarism is not a big moral deal”. The rule are the key to continue the game and the academic integrity are the guarantee for students studies.