Earlier this year, an advertisement appeared on my Facebook feed promoting “professionals” who provide a shameful personal service — one that a professor of mine once called “deeply intimate.” They ...

Essay mills continue to operate despite laws banning them in countries like England, with companies openly promoting services to students under intense academic pressure. Many target international ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Alan Jacobs proposes a novel theory for the success of essay mills in cranking out ...

Kevin says he’s always been known as a good writer — a reputation that only blossomed in his Canadian high school. “Word spread pretty quick around my 700-person school that I’m the best writer in the ...

Without her knowing it, a paper that Melinda Riebolt co-wrote while getting her M.B.A. was stolen and put up for sale. And, according to an article that USA Today reported last week, that same ...

Selling essays, assignments and even PhD theses is a legal and thriving business in the UK, but could soon be criminalised following a bill, supported by Turnitin and other major higher education ...

Internet giants have been urged to block advertisements for contract cheating websites by a global alliance of higher education regulators. Times Higher Education The Global Academic Integrity Network ...

Maybe I could pay somebody else to do it. Essay writing via Geo Martinez/www.shutterstock.com Given the sophisticated detection tools to stop cheating, it’s unsurprising that the Channel 4 Dispatches ...

Essay mill companies are still “thriving” in the UK despite legislation designed to stamp them out, The PIE News has learned. The PIE found examples on Twitter of companies that were offering essay ...

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I take a look at the phenomenon of “essay mills” — that is, companies that will write essays and papers for students who are just too busy with other things on ...