Contract Cheating and Essay Mills 2017 Findings Part 4 – Detecting Contract Cheating
Mixed views continue to exist across the sector as to whether we should be trying to detect contract cheating.
Mixed views continue to exist across the sector as to whether we should be trying to detect contract cheating.
An area that has, as of yet, received little attention in the literature has been contract cheating by academics.
What is the size of the essay industry and who are the writers?
The lack of a consistent terminology has caused problems.
Sessions at the 2017 international conference on Plagiarism Across Europe and Beyond ended up heavily focused on contract cheating. Having been part of contact cheating research since the term first formed part of the research literature and having recently published a series of articles marking the 10 year mark for research into contract cheating, I’m always pleased to see how the field is developing.