their political character must soon follow…..
These considerations should lead to an attentive solitude…
to be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers….
and judge of the tree by its fruits.” Elias Boudinot - Patriot
Posted on 01/20/2014 10:22:13 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
A Dallas-based company that writes research papers, essays and other classroom assignments -- so students don't have to -- says it is doing so well that it has expanded its staff from just a few writers to more than 100 in the past year.
The company bills itself as the one "students trust to write professional, in-depth and plagiarism-free essays that receive the highest grades for all levels of coursework...so they no longer have to face the burden of academic coursework."
It says the writing is done for an "affordable" fee; and it has foreign writers on staff for non-American students.
In a news release announcing the "custom writing service" for students in the United States, the company includes the following testimonial:
"I enjoyed using the service," one student is quoted as saying. "The paper was written excellent (sic)...My professor was satisfied, and so am I."
Other testimonials on the company's website read:
"I've sent the paper to evaluation first 'cause I wasn't sure if they can find a writer with a relevant academic background...But yes, they did! It seems like she read my thoughts and written the paper (sic) as if I did it myself, lol :-)"
And this: "Cool essay. Couldn’t been done better (sic). Just noticed a few typos, but that’s okay."
The company offers discounts of 5 percent after ten orders; and 15 percent after 20 orders.
In August, President Obama announced his plan to tie federal financial aid to colleges and universities that do well in a yet-to-be-announced college rating system. As CNSNews.com reported at the time, the rating system means the government will define what a good college is.
Increasing the number of students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds "is at the top of the list," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in October. Another key criteria is college "affordability." And third is "outcomes" -- graduation rates, job placement, and post-graduate salaries that are high enough to help young people pay back their college loans.
For the record, the essay writing company mentioned above says it also writes college admission essays. -
GREAT IDEA. Let’s spawn ANOTHER generation even more devoid of effective communication skills and CRITICAL THOUGHT!!
Yep, and it is rapidly nearing the end. Employers have figured out a large majority can get through college and obtain a BA while still being functionally illiterate. These degrees are rapidly becoming useless if we're not there already. After another generation discovers they've spend 40 grand on a worthless piece of paper everyone will quit buying them.
“Well-heeled but mediocre or lazy students will use these services to get admission to the best law and business schools.”
The best law schools are highly competitive and require very high LSATs. Of course, you could fake that too, but you are highly likely to be found out in short order. Same thing with business school. Of course, once you get your first job, you can’t hire someone to do the work for you, and then you’re really stuck.
The best high school teacher I ever had was the one who demanded that we learn to take notes. He was a science teacher taught largely by way of an overhead projector with us taking notes. We were expected to take those notes to find and study the appropriate material which we would later be tested on. He also graded our notes.
Its a habit that I’ve carried with me ever since. I almost always carry a pocket sized notepad and write facts that I may need to keep track of. I know it certainly impresses a new boss to see a new hire paying that kind of attention to detail.
Majoring in EE I could see how this service would help me in my major by receiving me of the elective humanities course work. I could concentrate on core engineering.
Boy, just having the internet would have made college SO much easier than when I went in the information dark ages. I mean how easy does it have to get?
Oh, so now an individual or organization is not allowed to provide educational resources unless they are certified by the government?
Today, THAT science teacher would be rated unsatisfactory. The new Commie Core Curriculum demands that students NOT be taught by a teacher putting notes up on a board, but that they read passages in groups and answer questions based on the reading. They must then be able to cite where they got the information to formulate their answers. Teacher-centered lessons will get you unemployed. Student-centered lessons will eventually get this country nowhere. How can neophyte learners teach themselves? How can they know what is important in these readings? What if they can’t read the passages properly? Then the whole class time has been wasted and they have learned nothing. I still say that the teacher should teach the class and that the students should take notes, broken up during the week with some hands-on activities.
Plagiarism free essays mean that the paper is a unique creation by a low paid writer, not a copy downloaded off a student paper sharing site.
Submitting a paper you paid someone else to write isn’t plagiarism, just fraud.
And CWS is only a tip of an ice-berg. On freelance writing sites, I regularly see available assignments to write everything from 1000 word history essays to 2000 word theory of knowledge papers to 3K papers on medical topics.
So basically this company is a professional academic cheaters outfit?
You got that right. I would have given anything to have all this stuff in high school and college. Kids these days haven’t a clue about what a slide rule is.
The company's core product is dishonesty, but I totally trust them not to plagiarize. NOT!
And since most schools no longer teach handwriting, nobody will be able to get a degree!
I noticed this recently when I was catloging my 100 year old mother's belongings. The estate sale manager found 2 of my old (7th & 8th grade, vintage 1950s) autograph books that we passed around at the end of the school year. Every page (including those from the 'dumb' boys) displayed beautiful handwriting. My own grandchildren of the same age produce unreadable thank you notes -- those that even try.
>> This is one very, very limited instance in which I’d support the government stepping in <<
There might not need to be direct government intervention. Perhaps a university or individual professor could sue the Dallas company and/or others like it under existing anti-fraud or anti-racketeering statutes.
For example, there are federal laws forbidding use of interstate wire communications to commit fraud, and a sympathetic federal judge might allow a RICO action to go forward.
Or at the state level, an old-fashioned tort case might go forward under common law, even where specific local laws have not been enacted.
Anyway, this is one area where I think we could applaud aggressive steps by the damage-suit lawyers!
the world has gone insane
It’s like an Ayn Rand novel married “Brave New World” and we are living the baby
Close to 3 decades ago, a female relative asked my wife and to do a little mentoring with one of her sons, who was a teenager and a junior in high school.
He was acing math at all levels, chem/physics, history, sports, music and barely any one could read his hand writing. If they could read his hand writing, it appeared to be written by a low IQ third grader.
My wife and I had a good relationship with him as we weren’t his parents. So we gave it a try.
At first we congratulated him on his good grades, and he said he wanted be a good engineer and builder of complex things. Then, we brought up his poor written English and hand writing skills. The twist here, was: His verbal skills and use of English were excellent, and he never had a problem talking with communicating with adults. That failed to emerge in his essays and written assignments.
We then, asked him what he planned to do about that deficit.
His answer. No problem, after I am graduated from college with honors and get hired, I will hire a good secretary.
He did and his good secretary has followed him through 3 different employments. He is currently a well paid VP doing what he wanted to do. His good secretary, now an executive assistant, in his words is like having a good Aunt or extra Grandmother working with him and helping him.
That’s how my son’s high school works. Darn near every paper of appreciable length is graded about 3 times: Outline, rough draft, and final copy. In addition, sources are checked, and the boys had better be able to answer questions about the paper because they WILL be asked questions.
He goes to a very tough Catholic high school. I KNOW they don’t do it that way in the public schools.
Regards,
Our country is celebrating a federal holiday named after someone who plagiarized 40% of their dissertation.
I went and read the article, and I have something of a nit to pick about the “reporting”. Nowhere does it mention the actual NAME of “the Company”. There are no quotes attributed to SPECIFIC people, such as owners or managers or employees. So, I am naturally skeptical, as this seems to carry the same weight as a story about “a guy who knows a guy that knows a guy that did this thing...”
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