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The multimillion-pound trade in internet cheating which sees thousands of students hand over money in return for bespoke essays is to be investigated by a committee of MPs, it has emerged.
For students with a deadline, its temptations are manifold - some prefer to order up bespoke essays from shady websites, while many prefer to cut and paste fragments of text into a final product that they can call their own.
Bespoke essays are increasingly produced in countries like India, China, and Australia.
The big concern is that bespoke essays, written to order, without being plagiarised themselves, are difficult if not impossible to detect.
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However, he added: "My impression is that type-2 cheating, using a bespoke essay-writing service, is increasing".
In his 2009 paper "Contract Cheating: A New Phenomenon in Cyber-Plagiarism" Mahmood divides the contract cheating problem into five segments: bespoke essay sites, using friends and family, discussion sites, tutorial sites and auction sites (Mahmood 2009).
"I think what is more of a concern is the sheer number of bespoke essay writing sites - that is something which is causing a lot of universities concern". It is believed there are about 1,000 websites - or essay mills - which offer students a bespoke academic essay in return for a fee.
Most bespoke essay-writing companies charge by the word, although some charge by the page.
Concerns have been raised about the growing number of websites offering students bespoke academic essays in return for a fee.
These services generally offer bespoke custom-written essays or other assignments to students in exchange for a fee.
Karl Temperley wrote consumer reviews of products he had never used and bespoke school and undergraduate essays as "study aids" for ten pence a word.
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