In my day there were always those who could “work around” the pop quiz or written essays by having someone else do the work or copying off their papers with wandering eyes.
Now with the Internet it has become a growing for-profit business. In a recent article by AFP, a Google search for "buy term paper" turned up 183 million sites, some of which, such as acceptedpapers.com, offer to write students' papers for them when they are "unable to be creative for an essay" or would "rather enjoy a night out than write a book report at the library."
The real kicker here, according to AFP is that many of these term papers are just plain wrong and filled with grammatical errors. A paper comparing Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" posted on dreamessays.com began with the line: "The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures."
"This paper is just too awful to read. I would be mortified if one of my students handed it in," said Carol Zoref, who teaches a course at Sarah Lawrence College in New York called "Narrative Design," which often deals with Huckleberry Finn.
The paper was "overflowing with grammar mistakes, vocabulary mistakes, and nonsensical repetition," Zoref said. Her advice to a student who submitted it would be "to get their money back."
Students who buy their papers are not only wasting their money but are naive to think they might pull the wool over their teachers' eyes, educators say.
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