The Chronicle of Higher Education has an eye-opening investigative article on paper mills. The article Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply attempts to track the physical location of one company called Essay Writers by sleuthing through mail drops, phone records, and business registration from Virginia to Kiev to Manila and back. Fascinating.
Equally fascinating are the interviews with professors and students. Students claiming they only use the papers as research and professors expressing surprise and disbelief that such papers would be requested by their students. And one professor suggesting assignments be "plagiarism proof."
Recommended reading.
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