As a professor, I am not at all happy with the fact that it is so easy to go and buy term paper assignments. I know that there is very little that I can do about it, as it would be very hard to prove anything, but I know it is a lot more common than any of us want to admit. It is a little bit fishy when you have a struggling student who hands in a perfect paper.

I have brought up the subject in my ethics class. I posed the question both ways. I wanted to know if there were people that would never pay for a custom written essay, but that would write it because they wanted the money. It is interesting that there are many students who feel it is more wrong to hand one of these in than it is to actually do the writing for someone else.

As an added piece for this class, I gave them the assignment of writing book reports. One would be handed in and the mark given to the student who wrote it. The second report would be marked and the mark would be given to a different student. I was curious to see how the quality of writing would differ. It was an amazing experiment, as they took very little care in the reports that were being graded for other students.