Timely . . . At $9.95 a Page, You Expected Poetry? . . . the English Department at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor just increased formal penalties for students caught plagiarizing. This New York Times article compares the quality of some of the wretched internet buy a term paper resources, finding them well below the A standards they proclaim . . . but they are recognizing that it is easier for teachers to discover plagiarism. Many of these places now sell “original” term papers that are guaranteed to be unplagiarized . . . albeit the quality is often worse than what their customers could have written on their own.