"Ahh. The old pop 'Blue Book' quiz trick."
Posted on 01/20/2014 10:22:13 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
A Dallas-based company that writes research papers, essays and other classroom assignments -- so students don't have to -- says it is doing so well that it has expanded its staff from just a few writers to more than 100 in the past year.
The company bills itself as the one "students trust to write professional, in-depth and plagiarism-free essays that receive the highest grades for all levels of coursework...so they no longer have to face the burden of academic coursework."
It says the writing is done for an "affordable" fee; and it has foreign writers on staff for non-American students.
In a news release announcing the "custom writing service" for students in the United States, the company includes the following testimonial:
"I enjoyed using the service," one student is quoted as saying. "The paper was written excellent (sic)...My professor was satisfied, and so am I."
Other testimonials on the company's website read:
"I've sent the paper to evaluation first 'cause I wasn't sure if they can find a writer with a relevant academic background...But yes, they did! It seems like she read my thoughts and written the paper (sic) as if I did it myself, lol :-)"
And this: "Cool essay. Couldn’t been done better (sic). Just noticed a few typos, but that’s okay."
The company offers discounts of 5 percent after ten orders; and 15 percent after 20 orders.
In August, President Obama announced his plan to tie federal financial aid to colleges and universities that do well in a yet-to-be-announced college rating system. As CNSNews.com reported at the time, the rating system means the government will define what a good college is.
Increasing the number of students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds "is at the top of the list," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in October. Another key criteria is college "affordability." And third is "outcomes" -- graduation rates, job placement, and post-graduate salaries that are high enough to help young people pay back their college loans.
For the record, the essay writing company mentioned above says it also writes college admission essays. -
"Ahh. The old pop 'Blue Book' quiz trick."
Our Vice President is a shining example of a plagiarizer.
“Companies like this have, unfortunately, been around for a long time.”
The first one I ever came across (might have been an advertisement in the old “Boston Phoenix”) appeared in the mid-70’s, a company memorably named “Quality B*llsh*t”.
Of course, with the internet, those operations have become both ubiquitous and amazingly convenient. High school and college faculty have access to programs that can search data bases for plagiarized papers, but as best I can see, about the only way to stop the “best” of those operations (the ones that write each paper as a custom job) is by demanding some in-class writing exercise/s to identify those students who really have little facility with the written word.
Weird. So much is downside up in this brave, new socialist utopia that's being created that I believe we'll soon be sent back a grade or few.
In the world I kinda of remember, how you handle the little things was a good indication of how you'd handle the big things, as well as being an excellent window into one's character.
Silly socialists. I don't think you can repeal that on the way to making your utopia no matter how much academialand fairy dust you snort.
Anyone want a doctor operating on them who used this service to make it through medical school????
I dont recall writing any papers in medical school. All writing was in the chart and done in the moment. No time to hire someone and it wouldn’t make sense anyway...
Now research papers done by residents could be ghost written, but most residents can’t afford to pay, and it would take a writer with a high level of medical sophistication and knowledge to fake it for them.
As noted by another poster, these services are far more useful in the non STEM majors that in the STEM majors, particularly at the graduate level
Ted Kennedy got caught paying another student to take a test. Cost Papa Joe a new dorm to keep him in Harvard.
It’s not just fraud, it is cheating. I teach Object Oriented Programming and database subjects to both undergraduates and graduates. I see this frequently in technology as well. They pay others to write their assignment projects. I have found exactly, my custom written assignment projects out on these sites. Now, to get to the code you have to pay for it. Some got by cheaply with a few dollars, others paid up to $30 for one assignment. Now, not everyone is doing this but many are, mostly international students (future H1Bs) that stupid company execs are falling all over themselves to hire.
I’ve been seriously considering setting up my own site, charge them a nominal fee and then fail them and get them removed from their programs for cheating. Not much I can do about it though since it is hard to prove they cheated unless I can ID their pseudonyms at the sites and/or directly match their code to something written outside. I’ve done this in a few cases each term but I mostly catch students turning in the same code as other students.
I have so far resisted telling them that I am not failing them so much for cheating as I am for being so stupid as to blatently cheat and think I won’t catch them.
These companies have been around since before computers and the internet. I knew people in the early 70s who found the ads in various newspapers and other publications and paid to have entire papers and thesis done by one of these “services”.
No, this includes STEM subjects as well. Math, science, computer science, engineering, etc.
Handwriting sample
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Look in physics, for example, nobody is going to take exams for you, you have to know the subject, there are no papers to write etc. Most engineering courses are that way except for labs. The only way to cheat in these type classes is to bring a cheat sheet with formula etc. on it. Some profs let you do that so there is no way to slough through.
As someone once put it, at the time you defend your dissertation (at least in science/math/engineering), you should be the world's greatest expert on your dissertation topic. If you don't know it cold, you don't deserve the degree. (Of course, that lasts only a year or so. Once your work gets into the literature, others build on it, and you have to run to keep up.)
Of course he worked only in the soft sciences and the humanities, not in anything rigorous. However, I had to wonder how his clients got past the examining committee, if they weren’t intimately familiar with everything that went into the dissertation.
It’s an educational resource? Last I remember, an ‘educational resource’ is something that helps you learn, not something that does 100% of the work. This doesn’t help students at all, it makes them lazy, and diminishes their capacity to learn. I’m completely against this.
I’d only do it for the usless liberal arts courses they make you take like philosphy or service learning.
You're right. Maybe they don't even do that.
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