Elizabeth Redden Cheating Across Cultures Summary

34 first-year business school students from Duke University were in a great trouble for the reason that they were guilty of collaborating on a take-home test late last month. Furthermore, among these students, 9 of them would be expelled and 15 would receive a suspension and a failing grade for penalties. This serious issue in the article “Cheating across cultures” written by Elizabeth Redden, has arosn my interests on the potential cheating problem which was taught to be unbearable in the academic circumstance on my first day in the university. Then I read the whole article carefully to have a clear understand and decided to provide my own opinion about the issue in the article.

As the professional opinion provided by Sidney L. Greenblatt, “People present false credentials to the American embassy, and corruption in the system is about what it is here”, the author of the passage believes that because the cultural influence can help cause an international student to cheat, the educators must to address academic integrity concerns proactively to prevent the increasing number of academic misconduct incidents which involve international students. There are 3 reason which can cause international students to do the wrong thing mentioned in the passage.

Many students which were in collective cultures view knowledge as a “shared endeavor” and “copying” as a reasonable behavior. For example, in China, although cheating is prohibited, teachers had never taught me about the plagiarism or how to cite the academic resource I used in any research paper. After I came to UC Davis, with the help of both orientation and my professor in UWP21, I started to use the citation, such as format ASAP, and realize the importance of