Wednesday, November 3, 2010

blog 6

It is very important in this world to learn a second language in order to have a communication with people for different country. Now a day English speaker has increased to a great extent, it has become one of the common language that is used when people travel to other country. My native language is Hindi. There are two main difference in Hindi and English, Firstly, in English we write Subject-Verb-Object while in Hindi we the words comes out with Subject-Object-Verb. Secondly in Hindi the Preposition comes after the noun. Moreover, Indian accent vary greatly as compared to American accents because in India they teach British English.

Plagiarism is one of the most important topic which is going these days in American university. Plagiarism has a lot many numbers of rules like citing the author, use of quotes, etc. This problem is occurred because of the cultural difference in education across the world. For example, In my country people used to copy lab journal and would get good grade. They have a concept of plagiarism in my country but the rules are not strictly followed. In India there is no rule that you need to cite the author when you are taking the ideas from someone’s article. Due to this habit of coping someone’s work or not citing the author while taking the central idea of his article a lot of students land in academic misconduct. In the article “Cheating across Culture” the author Timothy said that international student has a peer pressure of maintaining their GPA in order to maintain their visa.

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