A brief story in today's Daily Telegraph, p10:
'An experiment at Loughborough University in which students were encouraged
to buy essays from a number of ghostwriting companies found the results were
of questionable quality.'
'An Essays-r-Us spokesman said it wrote to order. "We are sometimes asked to
write at an overseas student level and the mistakes are done on purpose. We
have thousands of essays at different levels and attaining different grades
from fail to distinction.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=5W0C3B3BTJAYZQFIQMFCM5O
AVCBQYJVC?view=HOME&grid=N1&menuId=-1&menuItemId=-1&_requestid=41395
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