Cheat Sites Are But a Mouse Click Away
by TAA Staff
EVERY STUDENT HAS felt the primordial dread of a looming
deadline for a term paper, the approach of final exams and
the lure of an upcoming party. How is one to juggle these
demands? In the horse-and-buggy era, when my father went to
college, fraternities kept files of term papers, circulating
them whenever the need arose. Today, thanks to the Internet,
one need not rush a sorority or fraternity to take advantage
of such essay files. Hundreds of web sites sell term papers
to anyone with a credit card, cautioning that ethics prohibit
students from passing off such papers as their own.
Business is booming
Some 34,000 students visit cheapresearch.com
in an average month. Prewritten papers cost $5 per page, though
custom papers run $20 a page or more, depending on how much
research is necessary. The site e-mails prewritten papers
to students in less than two hours, while custom papers might
take a few days to arrive.
Papers-online.com
boasts roughly 30,000 visitors a month and charges $5.95 per
page for a prewritten paper and $16.95 per page for a custom
paper with a four-page minimum. The site bulges with more
than 3,000 papers and guarantees same-day service by e-mail
or fax.
Paperwizards.com
has about 28,000 visitors monthly, while charging $8.95 a
page for prewritten papers and $14.95 for custom papers. The
site promises that no paper is more than two years old.
Each month nearly 25,000 students visit amazingpapers.com,
a site that offers the same prices as paperwizards and promises
that M.A.s and Ph.D.s write all papers.
Orderpapers.com
teems with roughly 22,000 visitors monthly and offers the
same prices as paperwizards and amazingpapers. Orderpapers.com
promises same-day service for prewritten papers and a free
paper if its writers miss a deadline.
Papercampus.com
also offers prewritten papers at $8.95 a page, custom papers
at $14.95 a page and attracts over 19,000 visitors per month.
The site promises to e-mail students a prewritten paper in
less than one hour and advertises that its bibliographies,
which accompany each paper, are free.
Papersinn.com and
cheappapers.com both
claim 16,000 visitors monthly. Papersinn.com offers only custom
papers at $11.95 a page, or $16.95 per page for next- day
delivery. Cheappapers.com offers papers at $8.95 per page
for a prewritten paper and $14.95 a page for a custom paper.
Nearly 15,000 students visit 24hourtermpapers.com
each month. The site offers only custom papers at $19.95 per
page and guarantees next-day service. 123papers.com amasses
roughly 13,000 visitors per month. Like 24hourtermpapers,
the site offers only custom papers at $19.95 a page and boasts
that, for the right price, it can write a paper in as little
as eight hours, depending on the amount of research necessary.
Today, as in the horse-and-buggy era, anyone can become an
instant scholar if he or she is so inclined. The only difference
is, where you used to have to find a good fraternity or sorority,
now all you need is a credit card.
