Society has become very resourceful. Perhaps it has become a little too resourceful. The Internet has no doubt added a lot of convenience to our lives. And now, we can enter our credit card number, and with the click of a button our work becomes someone else’s problem.
The essay mill that was used as an example in the article seemed quite suspicious. But still, it gets plenty of business because people are either too naïve to see what is obvious, or they are willing to ignore it because they’re desperate to pawn their work off on someone else.
The website looks like any other website with chat rooms and contract information. It appears official enough to make anyone forget that what they are doing can be considered plagiarism.
It’s disturbing that people can pay to be successful. If you have money, you can go to college. For a little extra, you can pay someone to do your college homework. And when you finally get a career, you’ll get paid to do a job for which you are not qualified.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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