What kind of action or behavior is plagiarism? The answers are varieties. Also, people in a different culture have their own concepts of plagiarism. In many countries especially in Asian countries, either parents or instructors always expect their children or students who can study hard and have good opportunities to achieve their goals to become successful people. This notion has ingrained into everyone¡s mind for a long time no matter people immigrate to somewhere else. The students are in order to reach their expectations; they always make a lot of efforts to perform well in school. However, it may cause students to think some methods which are considering plagiarism to maintain their grades in school. How is the distant learning and group study examination? Are they on the list of plagiarism? It depends on what type of culture people are educated. So, comparing to the United States, in my country, Taiwan, has dissimilar concepts of plagiarism.
             First, most people know that distance learning is one of the innovations of learning process. It is a flexible method because it provides online courses for students who are unable to attend school on regular school hours. That is a good consideration for people who want to increase their knowledge and receive more education. In Taiwan¡s education system, it provides distance learning, but it limits the function of distance learning. Students who take this class only receive a teacher¡s lecture from another school by watching television. Normally, two years college and regular university do not provide on line class because they worry that students will ask someone to help them to do their projects. Reversely, in the United States, the schools provide numerous and a variety of distance learning courses for students. It is a good method for students to improve their learning and education, but it provides some chances for them to ask someone to work on their assignments. In my opinion...