blog7---issue 1

  Plagiarism is a hot topic which is in the education. Especially, international students have this problem. However, there are a lot of reasons for international students to have plagiarism. For example, Elizabeth Redden in " Cheating Across cultures" points out some issues come up in some ways: educational systems, language barriers and educators do to guide international students well. Moreover, Petra Crosby as cited by Elizabeth Redden, adds knowledge could present in different situations, some almost same words to be a sentence may be have different meanings. Therefore, it is a point in language barriers, also in cultures. And it is unconscious. Regardless, Chinese educational system is substantially different from western educational system. In China, use some beautiful sentences copied on the internet could make the article better and get a good grade, but it is called copyright infringement in USA. Besides, Jonathan Zittrain in "Salon.com" said "Unconscious copying may still run afoul of the law". In other words, use someone else's work instead of writing where they are from is plagiarism, whether there is a conscious or conscious, it "still run afoul of the law".    

  In contrast, plagiarism sometimes could be forgiven. Alan Brown finds that" source amnesia", from his words" When most of us copy others unintentionally, there are minimal consequences beyond irritation on the part of the plagiarized individual". Therefore, just some common problems not "run afoul of the law".