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Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills

Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills Kelly Ritter I don’t cheat, but not because it is unacceptable. I don’t cheat because I’m picky about my work and would never use someone else’s, especially if they didn’t write as well as me. — English 101 student Unlike other forms of academic dishonesty, which are driven only by the desire for a reward or at least the pursuit of a discrete “right” answer, pla- giarism is additionally, and importantly, reliant on students’ perceptions of authorship. The purchase of essays from paper mill Web sites, as one of the more egregious forms of plagiarism, is generally undertheorized in English studies, perhaps because it is often viewed as a less complicated problem in the context of larger, more “forgivable” acts such as the visible rise of cut and paste and other types of academic dishonesty at the postsecondary level. Clearly, however, the advent of digital technologies that allow access to completed papers on a variety of topics, often at a low price or at no cost and delivered instantly to one’s e-mail inbox, has created valid concern among faculty, especially those involved in the teaching of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills

Ritter, Kelly
Pedagogy , Volume 6 (1) – Jan 1, 2006
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© 2006 Duke University Press
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1531-4200
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Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills Kelly Ritter I don’t cheat, but not because it is unacceptable. I don’t cheat because I’m picky about my work and would never use someone else’s, especially if they didn’t write as well as me. — English 101 student Unlike other forms of academic dishonesty, which are driven only by the desire for a reward or at least the pursuit of a discrete “right” answer, pla- giarism is additionally, and importantly, reliant on students’ perceptions of authorship. The purchase of essays from paper mill Web sites, as one of the more egregious forms of plagiarism, is generally undertheorized in English studies, perhaps because it is often viewed as a less complicated problem in the context of larger, more “forgivable” acts such as the visible rise of cut and paste and other types of academic dishonesty at the postsecondary level. Clearly, however, the advent of digital technologies that allow access to completed papers on a variety of topics, often at a low price or at no cost and delivered instantly to one’s e-mail inbox, has created valid concern among faculty, especially those involved in the teaching of

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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