Well, they obviously produce a sub-standard product.
Posted on 08/23/2019 8:03:02 AM PDT by C19fan
Kenyan academics are working gruelling 12-hour shifts writing essays for hundreds of thousands of British and American students, a MailOnline investigation reveals.
Slaving away in 'essay factories' in Nairobi, the highly educated experts earn as little as a dollar an hour while their millionaire bosses cream off the profits – and cheating Western teenagers take the credit.
The essays are delivered anonymously by email, on time and free from plagiarism, with higher prices charged for a 2:1 or a First. Politicians have called the companies a 'cancer' that is 'undermining our universities brick by brick'.
For the first time, MailOnline gained access to the secretive firms at the centre of the £100 million industry, lifting the lid on one of the most corrosive trends in academia.
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What, did the Indians price themselves out of the market?
The Indians have moved on to scanning books — in or out of copyright — for resale on Amazon in cheap, uncorrected editions. So much easier than having to plagiarize others’ work to create an essay or thesis!
I question the value of any course where you can get ahead by passing in a bogus essay. Wouldn’t have gotten me anywhere in any of my engineering or computer science courses. I guess I could have paid someone to do my coding assignments for me...
So not only are schools these days indoctrinating rather than educating the kids aren’t even bothering to do the work to be well indoctrinated?
In the day I would have been embarrassed to even consider turning in work not my own.
These students are in training to be Dem campaign consultants.
I was naive and did the hard, albeit honest way.
During a 4 hour exam, and it took me every bit of the 4 hours, I was one of the last people to stay to the very end. BTW, it was an open book exam.
The professor left the room towards the very end, and as one of the other students was leaving he handed me the answers sheet. It was the previous semester’s exam and the professor hadn’t changed the exam questions!
It would have been a good study guide, but not legit to use it during the exam. Although, technically since it was open book one could argue that it was legal. I partially blame the professor for not changing the exam. Anyway, it was too late for me if I did decide to use it.
It was a tough exam and I did okay. No doubt, my score was at the bottom end of the distribution. I wondered if everyone in the class had the exam answers sheet.
I learned a lesson that day — yes there is cheating in college.
I remember back in college hating English Lit classes. I loved reading - but crap like Shakespeare’s Sonnets or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were just too misery-inducing to read.
I’d go to the school bookstore and buy a Cliff’s Notes version of the crap I didn’t want to read. In every issue, Cliff’s Notes said that you shouldn’t read it in place of your regular assigned reading - but instead use Cliff’s Notes as a tool for appreciating and understanding better what you were reading. They said that you were shortchanging yourself by not reading the actual materials.
Naturally, I disagreed strongly with their assertions. I used Cliff’s Notes (which I suppose was a form of cheating) and I did fine. I got a C+.
There was cheating going on when I was in school too.
I was only spreading for myself.
Geh! Typos!
“Speaking”
You dont need to know anything to be an AntiFa twit either.
In a way, it’s easy to spot the indoctrinated Leftist who did their own work ... they use big sounding words as they mindlessly parrot Marxist rhetoric compared to those who didn’t do the work.
No. They’re just getting undercut in the international market.
The changing of the language makes Shakespeare difficult to read. Also, these were plays, which require a different mindset to read. Even a modern play is a different type of reading from a novel.
[Cissius enters] Twas a leech upon the faraways when dost the cattle struck
[Bassimore, responding angrily]What! Hasn't thou walloped a sturgimore in your life?
[Angliphobe, falling from ceiling] Tis well, tis well.
Noticing the English writing skills of the Nigerian scammers, I doubt the veracity of this story...unless most of the teachers in Britain are now Kenyan!
Not a tough decision. I did my own papers EARLY in the semester from index cards I filled out in the library in the first 2-3 weeks when the library was practically empty.
Every index card became a potential footnote and/or part of a bibliography which I learned professors loved. 80 or so such cards (including those collected from previous semesters) would enable you to write a paper on almost any subject.
By the time the due date drew near and my workload got heavy, I could jack the price up to $50 and get it paid in advance. These Kenyans would've put me out of business.
Well, they obviously produce a sub-standard product.
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