"For Sale by 'Author': Online Essay Mills and Authorship in the Academy"

About the Author

Danielle Roach is currently pursuing her PhD in Rhetoric and New Media at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia where she is also serving as the Assistant Director of Composition Studies. She has taught writing for about seven years and is especially interested in multimodal composition and play in the writing classroom. Her research interests include digital communities, authorship, rhetorics of play, computers and composition, writing program administration, and digital humanities.

Contents

Introduction

Writing: The "Right Way" versus the "Wrong Way"

Academic Perspectives on Plagarism

OEMs & Academic Authorship

Conclusion

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