by TAA Staff

EVERY STUDENT HAS felt the primordial dread of a looming deadline for a term paper, the approach of final exams and the lure of an upcoming party. How is one to juggle these demands? In the horse-and-buggy era, when my father went to college, fraternities kept files of term papers, circulating them whenever the need arose. Today, thanks to the Internet, one need not rush a sorority or fraternity to take advantage of such essay files. Hundreds of web sites sell term papers to anyone with a credit card, cautioning that ethics prohibit students from passing off such papers as their own.

Business is booming

Some 34,000 students visit cheapresearch.com in an average month. Prewritten papers cost $5 per page, though custom papers run $20 a page or more, depending on how much research is necessary. The site e-mails prewritten papers to students in less than two hours, while custom papers might take a few days to arrive.

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