The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat

“[A] stunning tale of academic fraud . . . shocking and compelling.”-The Washington Post
Dave Tomar wrote term papers for a living. Technically, the papers were “study guides,” and the companies he wrote for-there are quite a few-are completely aboveboard and easily found with a quick web search. For as little as ten dollars a page, these paper mills provide a custom essay, written to the specifics of any course assignment. During Tomar's career as an academic surrogate, he wrote made-to-ord...