examining the ease of buying nursing essays online through essay mills and contract cheating...
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Examining The Ease Of Buying Nursing Essays Online Through
Essay Mills And Contract Cheating Sites
Dr. Thomas LancasterBirmingham City University
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Dr. Thomas Lancaster
Senior Lecturer in Computing at Birmingham City UniversityActive researcher in plagiarism and contract cheating since 2000Completed PhD in plagiarism detectionRecognised by the Higher Education Academy as a Senior Fellow
http://thomaslancaster.co.uk
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Academic Colleagues
“Detective” Robert Clarke Corinne Hersey Professor Fintan Culwin
http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~fintan https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robert-clarke/16/12a/967
https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/corinne-hersey/10/579/797
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Training Objectives
Show the sources that students are using to buy essaysPre-written nursing essaysBespoke original nursing essays (contract cheating)
Consider the wider issues that around cheating in nursing assignmentsWhy and how are students doing this?What are the implications for “fitness for practice”
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Guiding Question
"Would you want to be treated by a nurse who's cheated on their assignment?”Robert ClarkeBBC News
“When essays for sale become contract cheating”http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20298237
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First site on a UK domain focusing on nursing essays
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“CENTER”
Many essay mills rebrand themselves in multiple ways
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Original Work!
Student will not be caught through Turnitin
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Third site on a UK domain focusing on nursing essays
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Warning!
This doesn’t say anything about handing this in!
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Lots Of Good Feedback
This has been sold multiple times – so hopefully will be in Turnitin
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Advertise and use a bidding process on Freelancer.com
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15 bids (so far) to complete the workBids from 16 euros to 97 eurosBids including UK and US workers, even a “Doctor”
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Not all attempts at enabling cheating are successful
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For More Information
Thomas LancasterEmail: [email protected]: http://thomaslancaster.co.ukLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/thomaslancaster Twitter: @DrLancaster
General Resources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_cheatinghttp://contractcheating.com
Slides Available At:http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasLancaster
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Speaking Opportunities
Available for keynote presentations, research seminars, British Computer Society talks, teaching and learning festivals and practitioner training.
Suggested topics include:Contract cheatingPlagiarism prevention and detectionExamination cheating and misconductCheating within medicine, nursing and health educationSocial media use and student employability
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Further Research Presentation
“An Exploration of Contract Cheating and Academic Misconduct Within Health Education”Dr. Thomas Lancaster and Robert Clarke
Pedagogies, Practitioners and Identities in Education ConferenceBirmingham City UniversityMonday, 13 July 2015https://bcued2015.eventbrite.co.uk