What It Is and What to Do Many faculty may find the Internet a helpful resource for your work. Many students, I'm sure, find it helpful as well.
Additional websites offer papers for sale, and still others offer paper-writing services.
My guess is that even as we strive to provide our students with better, faster, more universal access to the resources the Internet has to offer, we are also providing students with better, faster, more universal access to these paper mill sites. And that as a result, despite our best efforts to teach the ethical use of source material, and despite our stated policies on academic fraud, we are likely to see more fraudulent submissions in the future. I'm writing not only to make you more aware of the existence of these sites, then, but also of what you can do to discourage your students from using them. Tony Grier of Friar Providence College has created a list of these sites. If they have access to the news media, your students are aware of these sites.