| Why write a college term paper when you can pay $20 for someone in Nigeria, Ukraine, or — well, O.K., Texas to do it for you? The Chronicle of Higher Education took a look at a leading essay mill with international ties. Says one writer-for-hire: “I took [an assignment] on Christological topics in the second and third centuries. I didn’t even know what that meant. I had to look it up on Wikipedia.” [%comments]
The Counterfeit Paper Trade
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Why shouldn’t they when they are looking to work for the exact corperations they are modeling their lives after, outsource away. Of course even if they did actually did the work themselves, they still will not have learned the most important thing, how to think, most college grads can only regurgitate what they have learned in college not actually having learned from their professors how to think. Free open-mindedness, challange everything even what your teacher is teaching you, in reality, modern economics is unproven theories written over a half century ago, and constantly revised to fit what is actually happening in the real world.
In the professional world, many people employ grant writers. Often, these writers know little or nothing about the subject and are writing from an outline. I can see some obvious differences – academic work is about demonstrating individual understanding – but there are also many similarities. I can only imagine what the NSF and other grant pools would look like if the Principal Investigators had to sign off on a promise that the entire grant application was their own original work.
The problem is dishonestly representing the work as your own when it is clearly not.
It’s such a shame.
College the time to learn. Gaining knowledge is one of life’s great experiences. Why would anyone take the easy way out?
Oh yes, it works. It gets people where they want to go.
Integrity? A relic of the past.
Mark
Hmmm, I wonder what percentage women/men use these services…
Long ago I wrote papers for my ex-husband.
Why ex, you ask? Well, he cheated on me…
Sadly, as a teacher, this type of behavior causes me to believe only in the work I assign during class, when I can watch it being done.
My guess is students will see fewer long term assignments as time goes on for this reason.
A much cheaper (i.e. free) option for secondary/high school students is surely their parents…
The ‘coursework’ element of UK national exams (project type work done at home in student’s own time) has been rethought recently since so much of it appeared to be either written by parents or from the internet.
cheaters recognize the odds of needing to know what they are learning are low