Abstract
Using sample student analyses of online paper mill Web sites, student survey responses, and existing scholarship on plagiarism, authorship, and intellectual property, this article examines how the consumerist rhetoric of the online paper mills construes academic writing as a commodity for sale, and why such rhetoric appeals to students in first-year composition, whose cultural disconnect from the academic system of authorship increasingly leads them to patronize these sites.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 601-631 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | College Composition and Communication |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Jun 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- authorship attribution
- paper mills
- plagiarism
- basic writing
- college students
- written composition
- scholarly publishing
- cheating
- student research papers
- internet
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Education
- Literature and Literary Theory