Is it ethical to hire someone to do the assignment? 

Qianjiang Evening News reported on September 4 that the school season has arrived, and many senior students have already begun to worry about their graduation thesis. The market is sensitive, and the grey industry is becoming more and more prosperous under the enormous demand.

Even after many colleges and universities listed “publishing articles or papers in journals” as one of the eligibility requirements for self-enrollment enrollment, high school students joined in. They did not hesitate to spend thousands of yuan hiring people to write ghostwriting. A few days ago, an online article revealed that students from prestigious high schools in nine provinces and cities were suspected of falsifying papers.

In recent years, the Ministry of Education has once again issued a notice, demanding that the sale and writing of dissertations in colleges and universities be strictly investigated and dealt with. However, a reporter from Qianjiang Evening News conducted an in-depth investigation and found that under the “one-word, gold,” the essay writing market is still blatant, and a complete industry chain has been formed from soliciting customers and attracting customers, reducing weight, revising defenses, and publishing publications.

Anshun went to school in Beijing. After the senior year, the school announced the time of the thesis opening report. He began to feel anxious. He didn’t study seriously in the first three years and didn’t know how to write his graduation thesis. “The thesis tutor asked me to give him a few topics, but I didn’t know what to write.”

He has been hanging out in the post bar these days, “Many people in the bar are discussing opening, many of the replies below helped write it” write my assignment for me. The graduation thesis is only 800 yuan, free to revise, including his passing the final thesis defense.

He was still thinking about it but was undoubtedly a little moved. “I plan to spend 200 yuan to buy an opening report and see the effect.” The other party promised that once the topic is determined, the opening report can be completed in 5 days, and the paper can be completed within 15 days.

There are many students like Anshun. Xiao Zhang graduated from a university in the province last year. In his opinion, it is not only the so-called “poor students” who will find someone to write on their behalf.

“Most research quotas and scholarship evaluations now include scientific research achievements.” He said that the so-called “scientific research achievements” mainly refer to the publication of papers. It is understood that to encourage students to do more scientific research, colleges and departments in various colleges and universities will give different degrees of bonus points according to the publication level of the paper. Unexpectedly, someone took advantage of it.

Several classmates in Xiao Zhang’s class have spent money to send papers on behalf of others, and even more directly, “one-stop” – people do the writing and sending. “There used to be someone with similar grades as me, but I was directly promoted from the third-class scholarship to the first-class scholarship with two papers.” Xiao Zhang said the gap between everyone’s grades is not big after conversion, and the papers are directly opened after adding points. Gap.

In 2015, the China University Media Alliance randomly selected 318 college students to survey “thesis writing.” The results show that 31.13% of college students have considered hiring someone to write a paper on their behalf, and 73.9% of the college students have been around to write a paper on behalf of someone else. However, “high work pressure,” “busy abroad for postgraduate entrance examinations,” and “lazy and procrastination” have become the reasons for finding someone. The main reasons for writing essays. Some people estimate that the output value of China’s essay writing market has exceeded 1 billion yuan.

A reporter from Qianbao found a paper writing shop on an e-commerce website. The other party told them that their ghostwriting teachers had an exceptional team. The writers were mainly studying for master’s and doctors, and even college teachers.

Is that so?

The reporter found Li Tian. Before graduating with his master’s degree, he saw recruitment information on the Internet and worked part-time as a thesis writer for several months.

He told reporters that all writers would be drawn into a writer group. From time to time, the intermediary will send out invitations for various majors in the group. Interested writers can contact the group owner to obtain more information about the submissions. Depending on the difficulty and time limit, the price will vary.

Li Tian said that when he took the order for the first time, he carefully checked the information and only started writing after he had a good idea. It took a lot of energy. “Later, I discovered that people’s level is limited, and you can’t tell if you write well.” Meeting the standard is the most important thing for most people who write a graduation thesis.

Later, Li Tianzhuan received some invitations for the undergraduate thesis to reduce the repetition rate. The method is straightforward. As long as you replace the modifier words, delete the order of the sentences, and change some orders, it will take a day or two to produce a paper that can completely pass the weight checking system. “The fastest time, it took an hour to reduce a 100% plagiarism paper to less than 15%.”

In less than half a year, he also wrote at least a dozen papers and only took orders when he was free. “My amount is relatively small, some full-time, and I have more than me in a week or two.”

Qian Bao reporter also contacted the intermediary as an applicant writer. After getting a general understanding of education and majors, he pulled reporters into the group of writers.

Only group owners and administrators are allowed to speak in the group. From time to time, information about manuscript submissions will be sent, mainly including the paper’s subject, the number of words, the repetition rate, and the time limit. “A survey on the current situation of Taobao in rural areas, 1500 words, will be available tonight.” The current drafts in the group are mainly social practice reports. The intermediary told reporters that it is not yet the peak essay writing period.

In the group document, the reporter saw a more detailed order-taking process on a cooperation agreement.

After receiving the order, the writer must draw up an outline according to the topic and start writing after passing the client’s request. After the creation is completed, the writer is also responsible for the later revision of the article. The customer is satisfied; the manuscript can be paid only after checking the duplicates and passing the customs.

It is understood that for the general college and undergraduate graduation thesis, depending on the major and the difficulty of the topic, the manuscript fee is between 35-80 yuan per thousand words, and the medical paper is relatively high due to its strong professionalism and scarcity of writers. The cost is higher for master’s and doctoral dissertations and core journals, more than 150 yuan per thousand words. The reporter consulted a doctor in school. He believes that compared with the energy spent, “if the writing can meet the standards of core journals, such fees are not expensive.”

For essay writing, it is not that there are no disciplinary measures.

In July of this year, the Ministry of Education issued a notice to strictly investigate and deal with the sale and writing of dissertations in colleges and universities. The notice requires that for degree-granting units that purchase and write dissertations, the enrollment plan should be reduced according to the seriousness of the circumstances, and the qualifications for conferring degrees in corresponding disciplines and majors may even be suspended or revoked; the student will be expelled, and those who have obtained academic certificates and degree certificates will be revoked following the law; at the same time, multi-department coordination and cooperation will be carried out to rectify the illegal information found involving the sale and writing of dissertations.

But the effect is not significant.

Xiao Zhang, who has already graduated, is still slightly resentful about this. “I knew I couldn’t find it out, so I might as well find someone to write two articles on my behalf.” Xiao Zhang’s idea is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that more and more people like this are coming.