{"id":3554,"date":"2010-09-17T21:24:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2010-09-17T21:24:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T04:24:40","slug":"essay-mills-outsourcing-and-black-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/09\/17\/essay-mills-outsourcing-and-black-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay mills, outsourcing and black markets."},"content":{"rendered":"

You know your higher education system is fucked when kids are spending $200<\/a> per plagiarized essay. Clearly, any kid spending that kind of money on an essay should not be in school and\/or has too much money. Also, the grading process is inadequate. <\/p>\n

But that’s not what got my goat as I read Dan Ariely’s score card on the major essay mills. It’s the fact that for $200, the customers are getting really, really bad essays:<\/p>\n

Cheating by healers. Healing is different. There is harmless healing, when healers-cheaters and wizards offer omens, lapels, damage to withdraw, the husband-wife back and stuff. We read in the newspaper and just smile. But these days fewer people believe in wizards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

English is read and written by millions of available workers throughout the world. Let’s assume the essay assignment takes someone with a high school senior’s level of English literacy 10 hours to write. At $200 per essay, you’re talking an hourly wage of $20\/hr. That appears to be considerably higher than what native English language teachers are making in much of the world. <\/p>\n

I’d suggest this could be a growth industry abroad if it wasn’t based on the fragility<\/a> of higher education in the U.S..<\/p>\n

That the essay mills are producing such crap is a testament to how black markets function. To whom would a cheated consumer (cheating student) complain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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