{"id":880,"date":"2019-06-21T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2022-12-17T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T21:33:46","slug":"an-examination-of-how-successful-essay-mills-and-contract-cheating-services-have-been-in-integrating-within-different-academic-disciplines-presentation-from-plagiarism-across-europe-and-beyond-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/an-examination-of-how-successful-essay-mills-and-contract-cheating-services-have-been-in-integrating-within-different-academic-disciplines-presentation-from-plagiarism-across-europe-and-beyond-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"An Examination Of How Successful Essay Mills And Contract Cheating Services Have Been In Integrating Within Different Academic Disciplines &#8211; Presentation From Plagiarism Across Europe And Beyond 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Plagiarism Across Europe And Beyond 2019, I presented a new study examining the extent of contract cheating across different discipline areas.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a full paper based on this data, but you can see some of the highlights as they were shared during the talk. The slides I used are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThomasLancaster\">on my SlideShare account<\/a>. The slides are also included below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/77Cv1gaztyTec5\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The paper considered the demand for contract cheating services, based on requests posted online by students across multiple previous studies. These noted that <strong>the extended area of Business attracted substantial contract cheating requests<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>New data presented looked at the online visibility of contract cheating service marketing across 19 main discipline groups, as identified by the UK&#8217;s Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). This showed that, although essay mills are already visible in search engine results, <strong>most disciplines show several opportunities for further essay mill exploitation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The visibility of discipline specific contract cheating advertising is surely something that search engines, such as Google, need to address with their algorithms. They should aim to <strong>ensure that students looking for help online receive useful information<\/strong> rather than links to essay mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I presented a new study examining the extent of contract cheating across different discipline areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18,119,268,8,352],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract-cheating","tag-contract-cheating-2","tag-essay-mills","tag-marketing","tag-plagiarism","tag-plagiarism-across-europe-and-beyond"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I presented a new study examining the extent of contract cheating across different discipline areas.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}