Sunday, September 10, 2006

NYT: At $9.95 a Page, You Expected Poetry?


The Web site for an outfit called Term Paper Relief features a picture of a young college student chewing her lip.

“Damn!” a little comic-strip balloon says. “I’ll have to cancel my Saturday night date to finish my term paper before the Monday deadline.”

Well, no, she won’t — not if she’s enterprising enough to enlist Term Paper Relief to write it for her. For $9.95 a page she can obtain an “A-grade” paper that is fashioned to order and “completely non-plagiarized.” This last detail is important. Thanks to search engines like Google, college instructors have become adept at spotting those shop-worn, downloadable papers that circulate freely on the Web, and can even finger passages that have been ripped off from standard texts and reference works.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/weekinreview/10mcgrath.html?ex=1315540800&en=f19a278edf316dfc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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