Others are more sophisticated, operating like a mail-order business. In the 80 days since Harvard freshman Dorian Berger set up a Web site posting his own essays and term papers, more than 13,000 'Net surfers have visited the site. The Evil House of Cheat has 8,000 essays, reports, research papers and field study papers available in 40 categories. Some are tailor made, others have been sold to the site by students who already submitted them to teachers. Those come complete with the grade the paper earned.
Papers are prepared and e-mailed within two hours of the order.
All major credit cards are accepted. Tiane Donahue, an English department lecturer at Northeastern University, said the best way to eliminate even the temptation to plagiarize is for professors to be more creative, assigning papers and essays that call on a student to relay personal experiences or that draw from classroom discussions. It's very easy to figure out if a student has cheated. They won't know the nuances of the paper if asked, and professors know something's up if a bad writer sud Donald McCabe, associate provost for campus development at Rutgers University and founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, warned that educators have to be constantly aware and wary of what students can access on the Internet.