Academic Discipline Integration by Contract Cheating Services and Essay Mills
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...The literature on contract cheating has grown in recent years (Lancaster 2020)....
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...Contract cheating services employ a range of persuasive features, such as 24/7 service, promise of refunds (rowland et al. 2018) and tailoring work to student’s requirements (Lancaster 2019; Amigud and Lancaster 2020)....
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...…and Jurkevicius 2017; Draper, Ibezim, and Newton 2017; Ellis, Zucker, and randall 2018; rowland et al. 2018; Sutherland-Smith and Dullaghan 2019; Lancaster 2020); rich Site Summary (rSS) feeds relating to orders from academic custom writing websites (Ellis et al. 2020); contract cheating…...
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...…service providers (Amigud and Dawson 2020) such as online essay mills, pre-written essay banks, ghost-writing websites, and freelancing and auction sites (Draper, Ibezim, and Newton 2017; medway, roper, and gillooly 2018; Kralikova, Vajdikova, and Foltynek 2019; Awdry 2021; Lancaster 2020)....
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...…and Lancaster 2019a; Rundle et al. 2019; Sarwar et al. 2018), essay mill processes (Ellis et al. 2018; Foltýnek and Králíková 2018; Kaktiņš 2018; Lancaster 2020; Medway et al. 2018; Rowland et al. 2018) and the relationship with assessment design (Bretag et al. 2019b; Ellis et al. 2019; Harper…...
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...This is of great concern, particularly in the UK, where law has been identified as particularly susceptible to essay mills (Lancaster 2020)....
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...This is an element of vital importance since, as Lancaster (2020) argues, the first exposure or contact of the student with ghost writing websites generally occurs through online advertising and marketing....
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...Figures suggest that up to 15% of current students will pay someone else for work produced through contract cheating by the end of their course, a figure which has seen regular growth over the past 40 years (Newton 2018)....
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...A summary of the issues by Lancaster (2016) considers the high visibility of specialist essay mills aimed at this market and the types of assignments regularly seen on public-facing contract cheating sites....
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...The studies reported in the leftmost three columns of Table 2 (Lancaster and Clarke 2012, 2014; Lancaster 2016) relate to specific contract cheating sites where requests are visible....
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...The fourth study from Table 2 was reported by a writer inside an essay mill who observed the requests and was reported by Lancaster (2016)....
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...…and Clarke 2012) Transtutors Study (Lancaster and Clarke 2014) Student Lance Study (Lancaster and Clarke 2015) Requests inside an essay mill (Lancaster 2016) 1 Business and Administrative Studies Computing/IT (=1) Business Business 2 Social Studies Business Studies (=1) Law Health…...
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...Due to the lack is specialism, the work purchased from these services may also not actually be very good (Lines 2016; Sutherland-Smith and Dullaghan 2019)....
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