{"id":4178,"date":"2010-11-20T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2010-11-20T17:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T00:19:33","slug":"insourcing-term-papers-yeah-another-story-on-paper-mills-its-a-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/11\/20\/insourcing-term-papers-yeah-another-story-on-paper-mills-its-a-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Insourcing term papers. (Yeah, another story on paper mills. It&#8217;s a trend.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/4170\">again<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/article-content\/125329\/\">fascinating story<\/a> on essay mills. This one challenges &#8211; albeit by anecdata \u2013 an assumption I&#8217;d made earlier about who is paying for these papers and inverts <a href=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/3554\">my modest proposal<\/a>  about outsourcing the work to English teachers in foreign countries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From my experience, three demographic groups seek out my services: the English-as-second-language student; the hopelessly deficient student; and the lazy rich kid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It hadn&#8217;t occurred to me that it was Americans who were being tasked by foreign students to write these papers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, a fascinating story on essay mills. This one challenges &#8211; albeit by anecdata \u2013 an assumption I&#8217;d made earlier about who is paying for these papers and inverts my modest proposal about outsourcing the work to English teachers in foreign countries: From my experience, three demographic groups seek out my services: the English-as-second-language&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}