Professor Charles Oppenheim of Loughborough University purchased some
essays from a mill (guaranteed to get a high grade!), and had them
marked anonymously. I can't remember the precise details, but they were
so bad that they barely passed.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joan
Mullin
Sent: 15 October 2006 15:22
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Subject: Re: another *ethical* plagiarism site
Exactly! So are students buying these just to turn something in or are
some people passing these? I wonder if anyone has studied this.
Joan
Quoting George MacDonald Ross <[log in to unmask]>:
> I've just looked at the sample essay on 'Terrorism', and a number of
> things strike me.
>
> 1. The essay has evidently been digitised from hard copy without being
> proof-read (there are redundant occurences of ¬ where there would have
> been hyphens at ends of lines, and 'modem' instead of 'modern' is a
> give-away). This casts some doubt on the claim about electronic
> plagiarism detection.
>
> 2. No university professor in their right mind would ask a student to
> write an essay on 'Terrorism', without a far more specific title.
>
> 3. The essay is a mixture of unsupported assertions and quotations
> from authorities. I don't see any evidence of analysis or the
> development of a point of view. If this is the criterion by which an
> essay is to be judged (as it should be), I would fail it.
>
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> George MacDonald Ross
> Director
> Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
> of the Higher Education Academy
> Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
> +44(0)113-343-3283
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> http://www.prs.heacademy.ac.uk
> University Teaching Fellow (2005)
> National Teaching Fellow (2006)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John
> Royce
> Sent: 14 October 2006 17:05
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: another *ethical* plagiarism site
>
>
> Quote: "Have you ever thought why university professors require only
> custom papers? If your teachers just wanted you to get more knowledge
> about the subject and learn about various viewpoints they would not
> ask you to write a custom essay."
>
> More quote: "Custom essays are required because your professors assume
> that you’ll not simply restate someone’s ideas but, also, analyze
> them, develop your own point of view and then succeed in discovering
> new concepts in the future."
>
> And the final quote: "If our researchers undertake your sophisticated
> assignments you can be assured that they know their job very well.
> Plagiarism, copy/paste or paraphrasing is not tolerated at
> ProfEssays.com in any form. We have developed the bi-level
> anti-plagiarism quality control to avoid plagiarism of any form in our
> company. Each completed custom essay automatically goes through the
> anti-plagiarism software. After passing this first security level, the
> essay goes to the Expert Service Department to be manually checked for
> plagiarism by our Expert Team. As a result of such scrutiny, all
> custom essays you receive from ProfEssays.com are 100% authentic."
>
> Oh, sorry, that wasn't quite the last quote - for their time
> management/ organizational skills are just right for the
> time-management-impaired
> student: "Emergency Writing Service New!
> In case Your order is due in 12 hours or less, the ProfEssays·com can
> handle it with ease. The Emergency Manager forms a research team of 5
> writers, all of who would work on your order. Initially they would
> split up and conduct independent research on the topic, collecting as
> much information as possible. Then, they would break up your topic
> into several logical units and do their part of preliminary writing.
> Finally, one writer, will pick up the pre-written paper and turn in
> into the coherent, and smoothly flowing essay that will suffice all
> your writing needs. Historically, we have managed to write 20-page
> papers in less than 8 hours, by using this divisional method of
> writing." (Only $34.75 a page).
>
> You are allowed to laugh (hollowly), then weep.
>
> Full details at <http://www.professays.com/index.html>
>
> John Royce
> Robert College of Istanbul
>
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