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Keynote Presentation at

WA Forum on Contract CheatingThursday 13 October 2016

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CONTRACT CHEATING

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My major focus for the past 10 years

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DR. THOMAS LANCASTER

Associate Head of School (Marketing and Recruitment) at Coventry University, UK

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ROBERT CLARKE

The world’s foremost contract cheating detective!

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“The game is afoot”

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

Arthur Conan Doyle

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CONTRACT CHEATING

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“The one

charm of the

past is that it is in past”

Oscar Wilde

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Eliminating the

successor to

plagiarism?

2006

2016

The time line for

my ten year

journey exploring

contract cheating

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Can you tell which company this is?

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Market in Term Papers Is BoomingNew York TimesJuly 10, 1971

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A university newspaperNovember 23, 1971

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Santa Monica College Weekly ArticlePublished 1995Reporting on what happened in 1988

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1973

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Initial contract

cheating

publication

2006

2016

The issues associated

with contract cheating

date back to the

1950s (and earlier)

Contract cheating

observed on

campus

1950s

Continued

visibility of

contract cheating

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Initial contract

cheating

publication

2006

2016

Many of the academy

integrity issues facing

education are the

same issues

Contract cheating

observed on

campus

1950s

Continued

visibility of

contract cheating

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CONTRACT CHEATING

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2003I found the assignment that I’d set on Rentacoder

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Rentacoder is no longer operational in its 2003 form, but there are other similar outsourcing sites around

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Web offers cheats tailor-made assignmentsThe AgeSeptember 30, 2006

Wendy Sutherland-Smith

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Research work

is ongoing into

essay spinning and back translation

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Initial contract

cheating publication2006

2016

The standard of

purchased essays has

improved. Technology

developments of

further concern

Contract cheating

observed on campus1950s

Continued visibility

of contract cheating

Plagiarism research

setting the scene for

contract cheating

2000-

2005

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2006

‘Old style’

essay mill

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2006

Habitual

cheating

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2012

24.5% of EssayBay postings

analysed from the Business

discipline

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2015Over 50% of students willing to

cheat if risk of detection is low

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2013

Purchased

assignments

can be cheap

Average Freelancer academic purchase of $101 USD ($133 AUD)

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2014 Purchased

assignments can

be completed

quickly

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2016

Purchased assignments can

be of high quality!89.33%

86.33%

79.67%

71.33%

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Enhanced

marketing

funnels

2016

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Writers now

operating their

own individual

businesses

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Cheating has

moved offline

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CONTRACT CHEATING

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What can

we predict

for the future?

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Emotional marketing edge

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Contract cheating services

guaranteeing marksThe RegisterDecember 1, 2015

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Use of PR

Companies To

Press Agendas

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Contract cheating sites

presenting their offer as

legitimate Times Higher EducationSeptember 10, 2016

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“I was not

predicting the future

I was trying

to prevent

it”Ray Bradbury

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Need to channel

authentic

assessment, just like

they do in art

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Reframe the language

of cheating?

Courtesy of Mike Reddy

plagiarism copying

contract cheating ?????

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Work with students to

promote academic integrity

and develop solutions

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2026

The challenge of

defeating contract

cheating is one that

we can achieve

Contract cheating

companies appear

to have the upper

end

2016

Educators have

successfully

reclaimed

assessment

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References For My Main Contract Cheating Publications

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