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An undercover reporter exposes ghost-written essays: Undergraduate thesis can be finished in 15 days for 800 yuan

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Original title: Reporter undercover writer group reveals ghostwriting essay world

Qianjiang Evening News reported on September 4 that the first semester of school is here, and many senior students have begun to worry about their graduation thesis. There are endless arguments about "no time" and "can't write". The market is sensitive, and the gray industry of essay writing is becoming more and more prosperous under the huge demand.

Even after many colleges and universities listed "publishing articles or papers in journals" as one of the qualifications for independent enrollment, high school students also joined in, spending thousands of dollars to hire ghostwriters. A few days ago, an online article revealed that students from prestigious high schools in nine provinces and cities were suspected of falsifying their papers.

Despite repeated government orders in recent years, the Ministry of Education has once again issued a notice calling for strict investigation and punishment of the sale and ghostwriting of dissertations in colleges and universities. However, a reporter from the Qianjiang Evening News conducted an in-depth investigation and found that under the "one word is worth a thousand dollars", the essay ghostwriting market is still blatant. From soliciting customers and reducing the weight of ghostwriting, to subsequent revisions and defenses, and distribution of publications, a complete industry chain has been formed.

Senior student: I will first spend 200 yuan to buy a thesis proposal report to see the effect

Anshun went to school in Beijing. After the start of his senior year, the school announced the time for the thesis proposal report. He became anxious. He had not studied seriously in the first three years, and he had no idea how to write his graduation thesis. “The thesis tutor asked me to give him a few topics, but I don’t know what to write about.”

Without a job, he wandered around in the forum these days. “Many people in the forum were discussing topic proposals. Many of the replies below are for ghostwriters.” He added the avatar of an agency with the word “writing”. The other party said that it only costs 800 yuan to write an undergraduate thesis, and it will be revised for free, and he will be guaranteed to pass the final thesis defense.

He is still considering it, but is undoubtedly a little tempted. "I plan to spend 200 yuan to buy a proposal report first and see the effect." The other party promised that once the topic is determined, the proposal report can be completed in 5 days and the paper can be completed in 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 just the so-called "bad students" who hire ghostwriters.

"Nowadays, most of the research quotas and scholarship evaluations include scientific research results." He said that the so-called "scientific research results" actually mainly refer to the publication of papers. It is understood that in order to encourage students to do more scientific research, various colleges and universities will give different degrees of bonus points according to the level of the journal in which the paper is published, in order to encourage students to do more scientific research. Unexpectedly, someone took advantage of it.

There are several classmates in Xiao Zhang’s class who have paid to have papers distributed on their behalf, and some even have a “one-stop service”—the writing and distribution are all done by others. "There used to be someone who had similar grades to me, and he was directly promoted from third-class scholarship to first-class scholarship with just two essays." Xiao Zhang said that the gap between everyone's grades was not big after conversion, but after adding points for essays, it was a big difference. gap.

In 2015, the China University Media Alliance randomly selected 318 college students and conducted a survey on "essay ghostwriting". The results show that 31.13% of college students have considered hiring someone to write for them, and 73.9% of college students have experienced ghostwriting. However, "high work pressure", "busy taking postgraduate entrance exams and going abroad" and "lazyness and procrastination" have become the reasons for hiring someone to write for them. The main reason for the thesis. Some people estimate that the output value of China's essay writing market has exceeded 1 billion yuan.

Reporter survey: Successfully applied to be a writer and learned about the process of ghostwriting orders

Qianbao reporter found an essay ghostwriting shop on an e-commerce website, and the other party told them that their agency There is a dedicated team of writing teachers. The writers are mainly students studying for master's and doctoral degrees, and there are even teachers from universities.

Is this really the case?

The reporter found Li Tian after many rounds. Before graduating with a master's degree, he saw recruitment information online and worked part-time as a thesis writer for several months.

He told reporters that all writers will be drawn into a writer group.

The agency will send out invitations for manuscripts in various majors from time to time in the group, and interested writers can contact the group owner themselves to obtain more information about manuscript requests. Depending on the difficulty and time limit requirements, there will be some differences in price.

Li Tian said that when he received the order for the first time, he carefully checked the information and thought about it carefully before he started writing, which took a lot of energy. "Later I discovered that people's skills are limited, and they can't tell if you write well." For most people who write graduation thesis, meeting the standards is the most important thing.

Later, Li Tianzhuan received requests for manuscripts for undergraduate and junior college graduation thesis to reduce the repetition rate. The method is very simple. Just replace the modifying words, delete the order of sentences, and change some orders. In a day or two at most, you can produce a paper that can pass the duplication check system. “The fastest time I spent was an hour, and I reduced a 100% plagiarized paper to less than 15%.”

In less than half a year, he only took orders when he had free time and wrote at least More than a dozen papers. "My workload is quite small. Some full-timers can produce more than me in one or two weeks."

Qianbao reporter also contacted the agency as a writer. After getting a general understanding of his academic qualifications and majors, he roped in the reporter into the group of writers.

Only group owners and administrators are allowed to speak in the group, and invitation messages will be sent out from time to time, mainly including paper topic, word count, repetition rate, time limit and other requirements. "Investigation on the current situation of rural Taobao, 1,500 words, required tonight." Currently, the manuscripts requested in the group are mainly social practice reports. The agency told reporters that it is not yet the peak period for essay writing. "By March or May next year, there will be dozens of orders in the group a day."

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

After receiving the order, the writer must draw up an outline based on the topic and start writing after passing the customer's requirements. After the creation is completed, the writer is also responsible for the later revision of the article. Only after the article is checked for plagiarism and the customer is satisfied can the author get the royalties.

It is understood that for general junior college and undergraduate graduation thesis, the manuscript fee is between 35-80 yuan per 1,000 words, depending on the major and the difficulty of the topic. Among them, medical papers are more professional and have a scarcity of writers. , the charges are also relatively high. The cost of publishing master's and doctoral theses and core journals is even higher, at more than 150 yuan per 1,000 words. The reporter consulted a PhD student at the school. He believed that compared with the energy spent, "if ghostwriting can really meet the standards of core journals, such fees are not expensive."

Intensifying: Essay ghostwriting has become an industry chain

On the Internet, the phenomenon of essay ghostwriting is becoming more and more intense.

A Qianjiang Evening News reporter searched QQ using "thesis" as the keyword, and nearly a hundred search results popped up in an instant, most of which were titled "Graduation Thesis" and "Thesis Checking and Reducing Duplication" Essay writing group. Looking around, many large groups with a maximum limit of 2,000 people already have 1,800 or 1,800 group members. There are also many essay writing and distribution shops on the commercial platform. Almost all of the top ones have sales of more than 1,000 people, and the one with the largest number of payers is even close to 10,000 people.

In addition to essay writing, their main projects also include essay distribution, plagiarism checking, and revision and duplication reduction, etc.

Through the investigation of stores and writers, reporters from Qianbao sorted out the essay writing industry chain of stores-agents-writers.

After a customer places an order in the store, the store will assign it to each writer group owner according to the order requirements. The group owner then publishes the relevant ghostwriting information in the writer group, and the writers take the orders and complete them.

Now, there are more and more similar ghostwriting stores. In order to compete for customers, stores engage in price wars. A customer service representative said that taking the most popular undergraduate thesis writing service as an example, last year the fee for a 8,000-word thesis was still around 1,000 yuan, but now it has dropped to 700 yuan.

Relevant departments have issued documents to severely investigate and punish, but with little effect

There are no disciplinary measures for ghostwriting.

In July this year, the Ministry of Education issued a notice requiring strict investigation and punishment of the sale and purchase of dissertations and ghostwriting in colleges and universities.

The notice requires that degree-granting units that engage in the purchase, sale or ghostwriting of dissertations will reduce their enrollment plans depending on the severity of the case, and may even suspend or revoke the qualifications for awarding degrees in the corresponding disciplines and majors; students who participate in the purchase or ghostwriting of dissertations , they will be expelled from school, and those who have obtained academic certificates and degree certificates will be revoked in accordance with the law; at the same time, multiple departments will coordinate and cooperate to rectify the illegal and illegal information discovered involving thesis trading, ghostwriting, etc.

But the effect is not significant.

Xiao Zhang, who has graduated, is still a little angry about this, "If I had known that I couldn't find out, I might as well have found someone to write two articles for me." Xiao Zhang's thoughts are not terrible, the scary thing is this There are more and more people.