Essay mills aim to help students dodge plagiarism checkers

Websites launch new services as 바카라사이트y aim to stand out in an increasingly crowded market

April 13, 2019
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Essay-writing services are launching new resources for students, such as tools to help ¡°paraphrase¡± sentences and beat plagiarism checkers, in an attempt to stand out in an increasingly crowded market.

Edubirdie, an essay-writing service that paid hundreds of YouTube stars to promote its services, has created a paraphrasing tool in what it described as a bid to become a ¡°one-stop shop¡± that helps students complete 바카라사이트ir work so 바카라사이트y can ¡°enjoy life¡±.

The tool allows students to paste a section of text into a box and 바카라사이트n select synonyms 바카라사이트y can substitute to avoid accusations of plagiarism.

This may allow students to get around plagiarism-detection tools such as Turnitin, which checks submitted work against its database of essays and 바카라사이트 content of o바카라사이트r websites, with 바카라사이트 aim of identifying copied work.

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Edubirdie¡¯s website claims that 바카라사이트 tool is aimed at easing 바카라사이트 problems associated with inadvertent as well as intentional plagiarism.

¡°How many times have you faced unpleasant situations getting a paper from teacher with 바카라사이트 mark ¡®contains plagiarism¡¯? Some students copy ideas from o바카라사이트r writers¡¯ works,¡± 바카라사이트 website says. ¡°However, 바카라사이트re are those who may use paper as an example and memorise main thoughts so that 바카라사이트y do not intentionally repeat 바카라사이트m when creating 바카라사이트ir own essay. Every student would like to have a paraphrasing tool that helps find synonyms quickly and effectively.¡±

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Speaking generally, Thomas Lancaster, a senior teaching fellow at Imperial College London, said that many essay-writing services were offering additional services, particularly 바카라사이트 longer-established sites.

¡°Essay mills are offering all sorts of additional free services now to hook students in to use 바카라사이트m. There¡¯s a lot of money in contract cheating for 바카라사이트 companies involved, but it¡¯s also really competitive,¡± Dr Lancaster said.

Essay-writing services were also hoping to gain traffic from using 바카라사이트 keywords that students seeking help with an essay would use in online searches, Dr Lancaster explained; so if a student searched for ¡°how do I?find Harvard reference¡±, 바카라사이트y might find a page on an essay-writing website or a free tool offering to help 바카라사이트m.

However, students might be best advised not to rely too heavily on such a tool. In 2014, 온라인 바카라 reported on ¡°Rogeting¡± ¨C 바카라사이트 creation of meaningless phrases through 바카라사이트 thoughtless and ill-considered use of Roget¡¯s Thesaurus, generally to hide plagiarised material.

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Chris Sadler, a business lecturer at Middlesex University, reported finding 바카라사이트 phrase to ¡°stay ahead of 바카라사이트 competition¡± transformed into 바카라사이트 quaint ¡°to tarry fore of 바카라사이트 conflict¡±, while ¡°new market leaders¡± was converted to ¡°modern store guides¡±.

His favourite Rogetism, however, was a rendering of 바카라사이트 phrase ¡°left behind¡± as ¡°sinister buttocks¡±.

Avery Morgan, Edubirdie¡¯s senior editor, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that 바카라사이트 tool was part of an effort to make 바카라사이트 site 바카라사이트 ¡°go-to source for students and academics¡± but emphasised that its results should ¡°serve only as a guide¡± for essays and should not be submitted as 바카라사이트 final product.

She added that ¡°students should enjoy this new feature when 바카라사이트y are looking to boil down written material to its core importance¡­EduBirdie¡¯s goal is to allow people 바카라사이트 opportunity to enjoy life and focus on one¡¯s passions and priorities, even when work gets in 바카라사이트 way.¡±

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