In today’s wired and networked world, it is easy for students to buy essays from so-called ‘essay mills’, or to commission someone to write an essay for them.
Here are two recent articles about such activities:
- Article by Dan Ariely on Plagiarism and essay mills and how he paid for plagiarised gibberish! (Published by MIT: Technology Review).
- Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Shadow Scholar – how he made $66 000 per year writing essays commissioned by students.
