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  Different countries have different education on academic conduct. Culture differences, education background and social value would cause international students pay less attention to academic misconduct. I just know it is not right to copy other people's idea before I came to America. Teachers teach nothing about academic conduct. They just tell us we can not cheating during exam; but out of examination, they do not care about where materials come from. Even though, teachers used other school's materials in the examination when I was in high school. Using materials without citation is become a costume for some international students. Moreover, it is cost nothing for Chinese downloading content of books from internet. It is free for us to watch new movies and read new books. Teachers use internet to find exam sources, we just type some words in the search tool to find answers. "Nigeria: Copy, Paste and Plagiarize" written by  Joel Bloch, shows that information overload add difficult to protect copyright, and have bad influence on academic conduct. It is easy for people getting sources and pasting it. Hence, international students do not think copyright seriously. Some famous writer publishes book which is plagiarism from others in China. There is no institution working for checking contents of book before publishing. Full society does not focus on plagiarism issues in China. As a result, international students do not pay attention to academic conduct, they are accustomed using other people's idea. In some times, they do not realize they are doing wrong things. Otherwise, international students need learn more about academic conduct. For my example, I just know I need cite sources which not the only one requirement in the academic conduct before I took ESL course. Now, I know how to summary the sentence, right conduct in citing sources and how to quote others idea. If I did not take ESL, I could not sure I would not involve in academic misconduct. Academic conduct is not easy as citing sources.

  Some people think it is unfair treat international students differently like teaching us right correct behavior in academic writing. However, because of lacking education in academic conduct, that is why we need learn. There is a fact, the number of international students involving in academic misconduct is larger than American students. And the article " The China Conundrum", written by Andrew Councill mentions the goal for students learning English is passing exam in China, not really learn what English is. Now, we learn what we should have learn in our country.

 There are many ways for international students strengthening their consciousness in academic conduct. They can watch videos which talk about value of academic conduct which is able to improve their cognition of academic conduct. Like me, taking ESL courses. I think this is a better way for international students fully understanding of academic conduct. On the other hand, faculty can let international students know punishments related to plagiarism and how serious the consequence will be if they involved in academic misconduct. The article " Academic Misconduct: Can plagiarism be weeded out?" describes that disciplinary measures would prohibit academic misconduct, some students get punish because of academic misconduct, then some of them will not do it again, said by Bolton. The article also mentions ways can reduce plagiarism like faculty can educate students realize the plagiarism is not moral behavior and punishing students who are accused of plagiarism.