Earlier this year, an advertisement appeared on my Facebook feed promoting “professionals” who provide a shameful personal service — one that a professor of mine once called “deeply intimate.” They ...

Essay mills continue to operate despite laws banning them in countries like England, with companies openly promoting services to students under intense academic pressure. Many target international ...

Kevin says he’s always been known as a good writer — a reputation that only blossomed in his Canadian high school. “Word spread pretty quick around my 700-person school that I’m the best writer in the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Alan Jacobs proposes a novel theory for the success of essay mills in cranking out ...

Maybe I could pay somebody else to do it. Essay writing via Geo Martinez/www.shutterstock.com Given the sophisticated detection tools to stop cheating, it’s unsurprising that the Channel 4 Dispatches ...

Selling essays, assignments and even PhD theses is a legal and thriving business in the UK, but could soon be criminalised following a bill, supported by Turnitin and other major higher education ...