Hello everyone,
Another reason to not buy essays, which I think is different from those on Dave's list. Essay mills *will* sell the same essay over and over again. I tell students something like "Essay mills do not give a damn about you. If you buy an essay from dodgy people, why would you believe that they won't sell it again, maybe to someone in the same class, as has happened here? They've done the work writing your essay, so any re-sales are pure profit. Who are you going to complain to if you get bad service? There's no ombudsman."
Thanks.
Sean
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Sean Sutherland
University of Westminster
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:29:03 +0300
From: Dave Sayers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: essay mills and contract cheating
Hi all,
So-called 'essay mills' are in the news again, e.g.
https://bbc.com/news/education-45640236. I began writing an email on the topic, but it got pretty long and I realised I might be rambling. So instead I made it into a document and put in on my academia.edu profile: https://www.academia.edu/37493237/.
But by publishing a document I don't mean to suggest this is the final word on the matter! Please share your experiences of essay mills and shadow-authored essays generally - and your own methods for persuading students that it's a bad idea!
If you find my little document useful, please feel free to use and/or adapt it. I added the CC licence at the top to allow that. If you think it would be useful to others, please also feel free to circulate, including retweeting me here:
https://twitter.com/DaveJSayers/status/1045679151171207168.
Enjoy the weekend :)
Dave
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:21:52 +0000
From: "Kuha, Mai" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: essay mills and contract cheating
Nice – thanks for sharing!
As I see it, the #1 reason students should write their own essays is that almost certainly one day creating new content will be part of their job, so they had better learn how.
Mai
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Department of English
Ball State University
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