'Professor ghostwriters' who take classes and write treatises on behalf of students are rampant on the scale of tens of millions of yen.
Academic “Ghost-Writing”: The Cheating Scandal No One Will Discuss
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There used to be frauds in which college students used texts copied and pasted from the Internet without writing their own treatises and assignments, but as technology advances, it has become easier to identify these frauds. I will.
Meanwhile, what is said to be rampant in the United States in recent years is the 'ghost writing business of treatises' by unemployed writers, professors, and assistant professors. This method is not plagiarism because the student does not 'steal someone else's text', but since the original text is written by 'someone other than yourself', it is not a crime but contrary to academic ethics. Lawrence points out.
The existence of a treatise writing service is not new, and in 2016 GIGAZINE wrote an article as follows.
Service 'UnemployedProfessors.com' where unemployed professors write treatises instead --GIGAZINE
by randychiu
Lawrence succeeded in interviewing writers and assistant professors who actually make money with ghost writing. According to ghostwriters, the dissertation writing service is not limited to the above 'UnemployedProfessors.com', but there are services for people in various positions such as university students, graduate students, and doctoral dissertation applicants.
Some people use these services as 'pinch hitters when they don't have time to write a treatise,' while others use them to achieve good grades at university. Hired ghostwriters not only write treatises, but sometimes actually attend online classes.
In the case of 'UnemployedProfessors.com', which has been in service for more than 20 years, students who are users of the service write information such as the assignment, length, required format, and deadline of the treatise and send a request. 'UnemployedProfessors.com' has a list of writers with catchy profiles, and students can choose their favorite writer. If the contract is concluded after the exchange, the student will make a deposit and the fee will be held on the system side. When the treatise is completed and handed to the student, the fee is automatically transferred to the writer.
The fee for 'UnemployedProfessors.com' is as high as $ 25 per page of the treatise, but there is no risk that the writer will be unpaid and the student will be guaranteed to receive the completed treatise.
On the other hand, some of the ghostwriters interviewed by Mr. Lawrence have taken the method of negotiating directly with students without using such services, and undertake work on a semester / year basis, starting from 12,000. There was also a person who wrote a treatise for 9 classes for 18,000 dollars (1.3 to 2 million yen).
In addition, while undertaking the agency, a 20-year-old student fell in love with a 50-year-old ghostwriter and received a request to 'see you when the semester is over.' The writer didn't respond to the student's request, but Lawrence wrote that the student continued to contact him.
According to Lawrence, UnemployedProfessors.com collects 23% of the treatise writing fee as a commission, and it seems that the revenue in 2019 was $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 (about 27 to 54 million yen). And that. Some writers earn $ 25,000 a year.
Since the university is aware of the existence of such a service, some professors who have classes are trying to get students to say the content verbally when submitting a treatise. However, when Mr. Lawrence contacted the university side, he said that the seriousness of the problem was denied, 'The university side knows the facts, but I do not want to know. They are by some students. I want to think it's done on a small scale, 'says Lawrence.
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