The Shadow Scholar

Students pay others thousands of dollars each year to write their papers. Yes, there is a student out there who has paid someone $2,000 to write a 40 page paper for them. The writers all work for an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a year. Each writer is capable of producing anywhere from 20 to 40 pages a day in subjects that they don't have a degree in.  I have never heard of this business, but it is very well known and popular business to some students. 

Who in their right mind would pay large amounts of money for another person to write a paper for them? I'm already paying thousands of dollars just to attend college, It wouldn't even cross my mind to pay someone money to write a paper for me. So then what group of people pays for papers? The easiest and most obvious answer are the extremely rich  and lazy students. The other not so obvious answers are the students who don't speak English very well, and the students whose communication skills are sub-par. 

The article makes a point that colleges are failing the students who cannot communicate and the ESL. Yet, colleges are succeeding the lazy rich kids. I totally agree. The lazy rich kids are usually business majors that are destined to run a company. At a company, they will invest their money to better their company. The same idea applies for college where they are investing their money to get a better grade. The communication deficient and the ESL are expected to know English the day they step on campus. They must master English to get a degree, so they see that paying others for their papers is the easiest way to get a degree. In the end, they might get the degree, but won't be prepared for the job that they get out of college. 

These writers are unknown to the world, no one knows who they are. But they are out there, writing essays, lab reports, and even graduate thesis. It's sad to say, but even that new young doctor you just started seeing could have had one of his/hers paper written by someone else.