The infernal business of contract cheating: Understanding the business processes and models of academic custom writing sites

International Journal for Educational Integrity

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Ellis, Cath ^a   Zucker, Ian Michael ^a   Randall, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Freelance Business Analyst   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business model and academic integrity; Contract cheating

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055257114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18332595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40979-017-0024-3     Document Type: Article

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