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Essay mills now using blackmail, whistleblowing and the use of phantom references and ‘Easter eggs’ in commisioned essays. #contractcheating #webinar #turnitin
Easter eggs are snippets of text within a an essay that reveal that it was commisioned #contractcheating #webinar #turnitin
Essay mills are no longer the preserve of wealthy students, but this has not got through to all staff #contractcheating #webinar #turnitin
THREAD: Why is it hard to detect 1 in 10 students who ever engage in #contractcheating? Problem 1: Students in a 3-year degree may do 75 assessments. 1 in 10 students outsourcing one of those is 1 in 750 assignments. Needle meet haystack.
2/ #contractcheating by way of custom ghost-writing creates work that will not usually get flagged for potential plagiarism by text-matching software.
3/ #contractcheating where students submit assignments from file-sharing sites may not get flagged for potential plagiarism by text-matching software, because files are inaccessible to text-matching software and/or shared as images rather than text.
