College Composition and Communication Jun 2005

The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition

Kelly Ritter

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.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2005-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20054824
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition multilingual writers

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