Plagiarism detection software such as Turnitin makes cheating by copying easy to spot. This explains why ghostwritten assignments are booming online. The old paper mills have morphed into global enterprises and brazenly market their services in slick YouTube videos but also offline. Students cite time pressure and stress as reasons for resorting to contract cheating. Some rationalize buying written-to-order papers online by falling back on the old saw that “everyone is doing it.” In a recent NPR story, a student made this argument: “Technically, I don’t think it’s cheating. Because you’re paying someone to write an essay, which they don’t plagiarize, and they write everything on their own.” When pressed, the student acknowledged that perhaps it’s “a difficult question to answer,” verging on “a gray area” or being “on the edge, kind of.” How do you feel about this type of growing academic dishonesty? Do you think it is common on college campuses?