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TYPES OF PAPER MILLS Most paper mills have thousands of essays generated from a program known as an "essay exchange." A student who wants to download an essay from the site must first submit an essay. An essay database can grow very rapidly with this exchange method. However, there is no control over quality. A student can submit a lower quality paper in exchange for an 'A' level paper. That lower quality essay then becomes part of the database for others to download. As the process continues unchecked, the essay site offers standards spiraling down in quality. A 'closed' essay database is another form of a paper mill. Closed database sites maintain the quality of their essays by not allowing anonymous users to submit and exchange papers unchecked. PAPER MILLS AND COUNTER-PLAGIARISM The rising number of commercial paper mills has led to a rise in Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty . Groups have taken the initiative in "anti-cheating" websites like Turnitin to deter cheaters, by comparing a student's term paper against online material and a database of student papers. Because Turnitin identifies only matching text and does not discern true Authorship , a custom written essay from a paper mill may escape detection if it is only used once by a student or sold once by the paper mill. If the paper is resubmitted to Turnitin, either because the student gives it to someone else or because the paper mill resells the same paper, it will identify matching text from Turnitin's student database. {Link without Title} CUSTOM WRITING Due to the ease with which a professor can now check a student's paper for unique word phrases and discover its source, custom-written essays have become popular. Some essay mills create all their papers from scratch using a staff of writers and never publish the resulting papers in a database. Because these papers never appear anywhere other than in a student's e-mail inbox, there is no published copy for a professor to check a paper against, and professors' current primary method of Plagiarism prevention, assigning specific or unique writing topics, is circumvented. EXTERNAL LINKS
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