I read an interesting post over at Mother Jones about essay mills. Apparently many college students are turning to companies that churn out generic essays as a way of making it through school. Professors continue to assign predictable prompts which allows these essay mill companies to thrive.
This is all well and good, but what struck me was the insinuation that students do this all the time. Have you ever used an essay mill to buy a paper? Do you have friends who have done this? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Nope, you'll get caught if you do. Lots of teachers can AND DO search through databases like that to see if you cheated.
Plus, come on, is it REALLY that hard to write a friggin' paper?
I've heard about those searches. I've had students write a paragraph with sentences with grammar like this: Hlelo, iths is hwo i wrtie.
Then follow it up with a sentence like this: Perhaps the best method to appropriate my time is to copy and paste impressive write from primary sources.
It's so obvious they copy/pasted, but they act as though I'm blind.
Anyhow, it's just not hard to write... for brilliant minds like ours!
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