Blog6, Shixiao Xu

Along with the advance of the society more and more problems are brought to our attention, one of which is that plagiarism. As to whether it is a blessing or a curse, however, people take different attitudes. Why student popular in plagiarism? The article ”Cheating Across Cultures” by Elizabeth Redden, he discusses 34 business students should be expelled; they are accepting punished, because collaborating on take-home test. Because of they want to get good grades.

According to my research, a vast of student wants to raise their GPA. As you know, writing a perfect paper will get higher grades. So many people want to get good grades. Writing a perfect paper need to have a novel point, which can give deeply impression to professor. Plagiarism is extremely convenience, which copy others article. In china, copyright is not protected; many people can copy other’s article. Usually, it will become a habit; one student copy article’s sentences, then he gets great grades. Other student known it, but he don’t do same thing as that man. When he gets his grades, it is not higher than the copy man. As a result, he will think about this thing: ”I don’t copy article, but I get lower grades, why I am not getting higher grades?” maybe he decides to cheat other’s article the same as that man, because he just wants to get good grades. What method about plagiarism by student. Many student use website to reach some main point or sentences. Putting sentences on our article, then change some verb or use different grammar. Also, other students might plagiarism from the books or purchases papers, which is written by others.