Essay Mills - Experiment in Meta
Sep. 15th, 2010 07:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essentialsaltesResearcher orders essays from a number of essay mills with the following prompt:
“When and why do people cheat? Consider the social circumstances involved in dishonesty, and provide a thoughtful response to the topic of cheating. Address various forms of cheating (personal, at work, etc.) and how each of these can be rationalized by a social culture of cheating.”
Not only were the resultant efforts gibberish, but when the researcher complained to one of them that the essay was itself partially plagiarized, and asked for a refund, the essay mill threatened to tell the dean that the 'student' had cheated. Wow! Who can you trust, when you can't trust a guy who's gonna help you cheat your way through school?
“When and why do people cheat? Consider the social circumstances involved in dishonesty, and provide a thoughtful response to the topic of cheating. Address various forms of cheating (personal, at work, etc.) and how each of these can be rationalized by a social culture of cheating.”
Not only were the resultant efforts gibberish, but when the researcher complained to one of them that the essay was itself partially plagiarized, and asked for a refund, the essay mill threatened to tell the dean that the 'student' had cheated. Wow! Who can you trust, when you can't trust a guy who's gonna help you cheat your way through school?
