China Radio and Television Beijing May 25th news (Reporter Guo Jiali) Recently, the "paper writing" became a business that has caused heated discussion. A netizen posted on "Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology Bar" that two senior students in the school asked him to do graduation design for him for a paid basis, and after doing it, they took advantage of platform transaction loopholes to find excuses to ask him for money. On the 23rd, the School of Computer Science and Technology of Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology issued a statement of the situation, deciding to suspend the graduation design defense of the two students involved. Once the reported situation is verified, it will be dealt with seriously in accordance with the law.
China Radio International's investigation found that although a well-known e-commerce platform reminded that "the platform strictly prohibits providing illegal services for completing academic research and academic tasks." However, some store owners said that the writers are all in-service teachers in colleges and universities, and their main focus is master's and doctoral thesis. The other party also said that it would cost 2,200 yuan to write a postgraduate paper published in an ordinary journal with a word count of 5,000 words and a severity check rate below 10%.
Beijing Jingshi Law Firm Partner Li Baolian Lawyer believes that "finding someone to write papers on your behalf" is an academic misconduct. For illegal transactions such as "paper writing", the service contract between the student purchaser and the paper writing party is an invalid contract. Once a dispute arises between the two parties, the law will not protect it.
Survey: The "paper writing" business is still alive
At present, several major e-commerce platforms and forums have eliminated related searches such as "paper writing", but the "paper writing" business is still alive and the means are becoming increasingly hidden.
reporters entered "paper writing" on several major e-commerce platforms, but there were no relevant search results. However, if you enter keywords such as "paper", "paper polishing", "paper plagiarism check", and the page will appear related content such as "paper one-on-one", "graduate thesis can be expedited".
Related results of inputting the keyword "paper" on the e-commerce platform (Picture source: screenshot of the e-commerce platform)
The reporter randomly selected a store on an e-commerce platform and asked the customer service "whether it can write papers in the direction of news dissemination", and the message was automatically withdrawn immediately after being sent. Immediately afterwards, a prompt popped up on the page: "The platform strictly prohibits providing illegal services for completing academic research and academic tasks. Any transactions involving such goods or services will be dealt with strictly in accordance with the platform rules." Subsequently, the customer service sent a "WeChat QR code" and recommended to add WeChat consultation.
After understanding the journalist's education, major, writing thesis topic, word count and sludge check rate, the customer service said that it would cost 2,200 yuan to write a postgraduate paper published in an ordinary journal with a word count of 5,000 words and a sludge check rate below 10%. "Don't worry about quality. We are all on-the-job teachers in colleges and universities, and our main focus is master's and doctoral thesis." It has been common for
"paper writing" to be exposed. 21st Century Education Research Institute Dean Xiong Bingqi said that the transaction of writing papers was exposed more than 10 years ago. In order to manage this issue, relevant departments have also launched special governance actions to clean up small advertisements for writing papers and block searches for writing papers, but the transaction of writing papers is still rampant.
"Paper Writing" is illegal?
From January 1, 2013, the Ministry of Education Order No. 34 "Measures for Handling Falsification of Thesis" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") has begun to be implemented. The Measures stipulate five types of fraudulent dissertations, and purchasing, selling dissertations or organizing the sale of dissertations is one of them.
Article 3 of the Ministry of Education's "Measures for Handling Falsification of Dissertations" (China Radio Network Posted by the picture from screenshot of the Ministry of Education Order No. 34 of the People's Republic of China)
Lawyer Wang Xinyue from Beijing Haotian Law Firm said that there is no direct provision on the transaction of papers, and the circumstances involved are different, so it is impossible to directly determine which law it violates. For example, the seller knows that the buyer entrusted him to do the graduation thesis to obtain a graduation certificate, but he still does it. Although the behavior cannot be raised to the Criminal Law angle to crack down on it, it must have violated the relevant regulations.
On the official official account of "Jinan Intermediate Court", the Licheng District Court of Jinan City tried a dispute case of paper writing and believed that the parties entrustment to write papers on their behalf violated the public order and good customs of . Therefore, the signed agreement to write papers on their behalf was invalid and the improper benefits obtained by the entrusted party should be returned.
Li Shu, a lawyer at Beijing Jingshi Law Firm, analyzed the judicial case that for the follow-up problems and division of responsibilities caused by academic cheating such as fees for writing papers, the law does not have clear laws to determine that the fees for writing papers is illegal, but based on the basic principles of the law, it is considered that entrusting papers to write papers is illegal, and the benefits obtained are improper benefits.
Expert: It is necessary to strengthen legislation to curb
"There is no demand, there is no buying or selling." Xiong Bingqi said that the reason why illegal transactions in writing papers exist is precisely because of the demand. After all, purchasing essay writing services is to fool or fake.
According to Article 7 of the Ministry of Education Order No. 34, "Measures for Handling Falsification of Dissertations" stipulates that if a degree applicant's dissertation is purchased, written by others, plagiarized or forged data, the degree-granting institution may cancel its degree application qualification; if a degree has been obtained, the degree-granting institution may revoke its degree in accordance with the law and cancel its degree certificate.
State of the release of the School of Computer Science and Technology of Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology (China Radio Network, pictures are from the official website of the college)
Zhang Jiayong, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education and deputy director of the Department of Comprehensive Research, said that the Ministry of Education attaches great importance to the construction of academic ethics and academic style. Before the issuance of the Measures, it issued a series of documents such as "Several Opinions on Strengthening Academic Ethics Construction" and "Notice on Seriously Handling Academic Misconduct in Higher Education Institutions", and also specially established an academic style construction management agency. Although the relevant regulations are specific and clear at the level of the Ministry of Education’s departmental regulations, false behaviors such as buying, selling, writing dissertations on behalf of college students still occur from time to time.
Zhang Jiayong also said that it has been nearly 20 years since the " Degree Regulations of the People's Republic of China" revised by the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on August 28, 2004, and the relevant provisions on academic fraud are vague and simple. The "Interim Implementation Measures for the Regulations on Degrees of the People's Republic of China" approved by the State Council in May 1981 has been used until now. The relevant provisions on academic fraud are basically lacking, which has seriously lagged behind the new requirements of the new era of popularization of higher education in my country. It is very necessary to strengthen legislation to curb it.
Xiong Bingqi analyzed that in order to combat the phenomenon of "paper writing", in addition to severely punishing institutions and personnel that provide illegal writing services, students should also consciously maintain academic order and academic dignity. When encountering essay writing services, they should report them as soon as possible and stay away from essay writing services. This is the basic education that strict education, academic management and evaluation system should give students.
