What? where- what websites? I've only re-subscribed recently and may have
missed this.
> A _far_ more serious threat to academic integrity coming from the web is
>the proliferation of websites where students can exchange term papers and
>essays! I subscribed to several of the pay services that provide this
>resource in order to "check out" any questionable papers I receive (I've
>received two "on-line term papers" in the last year alone!) and have been
>astounded by the growth rate of those sites. It isn't much of a reach to
>expect that in the near future sites will exist where graduate students
>will be compensated for writing papers and undergrads will be able to
>purchase those papers at a low cost (an Internet version of the current
>"Research Paper" services that advertise in magazines). To me, that's a
>_lot_ more serious problem than online evaluations--it makes a complete
>mockery of the entire concept of academic integrity and makes it virtually
>impossible for faculty members to recognize plagiarism, since they will
>have no possible access to the original source.
