{"id":355,"date":"2010-04-25T19:48:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:21:37","slug":"buy-a-term-paper-online-or-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/25\/buy-a-term-paper-online-or-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy a term paper online… or troll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Teaching Assistants (TAs) frequently trade tips for discovering plagiarism in the papers they grade. While google has made it easy to catch the lazy copy-paste form, many of us recognize that cheaters with financial resources can buy term papers. The following chat occurred on TopMarkEssays.com<\/em>, an essay mill which charges +$10\/page for custom writing and bills itself as “among the premier essay writing companies in the world”.<\/p>\n

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Operator Henry has joined the chat.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Hello may I help you<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> So… uh… where did your writers go to school? Where’d they get their degrees?<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Why?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> I’m wondering if they used this service to get through their programs and graduate.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> May I know why you come with such accusations [That’s a nice thing to say about your customers. -ed]<\/em><\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> I can’t help but notice that your homepage is filled with errors.<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> You know, the kind I discover when grading papers.<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> “The greatest advantage when you order a customer paper with us is that we follow all instructions.”<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> sorry<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> A “customer paper”?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> “I will defiantly place another order with you soon. Thanks”<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> “Defiantly” place?<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Did you place a paper with us<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> How much to check if any of the papers I’m grading came from your service?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> You know, you guys could make good money going in both directions.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> what do you mean?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> You can charge to write the papers, and then charge institutions to check whether the student wrote the paper themselves.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Good business idea but not applicable<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> If you’re really sharp, you could even go into the outsourced TA business<\/a> I read about in the Chronicle of Higher Education.<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> Trifecta, man.<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> Charge for writing the papers, charge for grading them and charge for catching the cheats.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> what do you mean<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> How many papers are you marking from our websites [No surprise that there’s more than one website, but I wonder how many of these apparently different companies are just re-brands of the same service . -ed]<\/em><\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> How much do I have to pay to get the names of everyone at my institution who’s bought a paper from you?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> What’s the price? $100 per person?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> How about $300 for repeat customers?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> What’s the matter, Henry? Has nobody ever asked to buy your customer list?<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Nope<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> Well, I’m asking. How many customers do you have? 3000? At $300 each, that’s $90,000 cash. Not bad.<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> Sorry $900,000 cash.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> We have business ethics with our customers<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> Are your business ethics not of the same caliber as your academic ethics?<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> and why do you ask?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> It’s not like you’re selling a good product, Henry. Let’s be honest, there is a grammatical error in the first sentence of your homepage: “We understand you are working or you have other commitment that makes it difficult for you to achieve the best in your academic work, and we offer you the solution.”<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> That should be “commitments”, plural.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Why do you criticize that website. Do you want to order<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> I mean you want to order a research paper?<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> You sell a service to help people cheat and help them commit the highest crime in academia, but you won’t sell me your customer list because you have “business ethics”? Really, Henry?<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Please let me transffer you to management<\/p>\n

Jay:<\/strong> Sure.<\/p>\n

Henry:<\/strong> Yap<\/p>\n

[REDACTED]<\/p>\n

It’s probably best that we end here. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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