Blog#7 Issue Paragraph

Recently, the number of international students involved in plagiarism has increased more frequently. There might be numerous reasons about what cause International students plagiarism. Different culture experience is a factor of causing student cheating. For example, in China, an essay will get a great score if the writer adds many famous person’s words in my essay. Thus the different culture experience might lead to different understanding of plagiarism. Greenblatt, as cited by Elizabeth Redden in “Cheating Across Culture”, points out “many Asian students who come from education systems in which the norm is to repeat back a textbook or a professor verbatim as a sign of respect to the source of knowledge.” Furthermore, the convenient technology is another factor of student committing plagiarism. In China, it is free for downloading new books, watching movies and listening music on the Internet. People usually just put some key words in “baidu” search engine, and then they can find suitable information. The convenient Internet causes people to citing others’ opinions without quotation marks. In Daniel Luzer’s article “Plagiarism on the rise”, he presents a result of a survey from the Pew Research Center about plagiarism in college. Plagiarism in students’ paper has increased over the past 10 years, moreover an overwhelming 89 percent say computers and Internet have played a major role in the rise in stealing others work and claiming it as their own.