Shadow Scholar Compare And Contrast Essay

Module Three Rough Draft One of the most common problems in our schooling system is that students cheat. This happens a lot with older students who struggle with the topic that their assignment is on. In “The Shadow Scholar” by Ed Dante, and “Introduction: Fraud and Fundamental Misunderstandings” by Shane Borrowman shows how students cheat to move on in their education. In both of these texts the authors tell their first-hand stories of their different students cheating. In “The Shadow Scholar” Ed Dante writes papers for students who pay him and this text published in 2012 in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This articles target audience is higher level educators who read The Chronicle. In “Introduction: Fraud and Fundamental Misunderstandings”

In “The Shadow Scholar” the main claim is that students needs aren’t being met in the school system. The education system is broken and when students cheat their education gets hurt. “They need help learning. . . need help passing courses. But they aren’t getting it.” The evidence the author uses is a personal experience where he writes papers for students that pay him, and who need a good grade to pass their classes. “I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays…” (Dante 2). It is credible because the author went through this and cheated for the students. He follows up on being credible by going into detail about how he writes every paper similarly and shows his template for the papers he writes. He also shows how dumb some of his students are by showing how bad their grammar and spelling is. Dante does this by bringing up emails he received from the students he was writing the paper for with all the different types of spelling and grammatical errors in them. This shows that he is even more credible because he took the time to go through his emails and quote these specific students. He also shows the audience how much money he makes a year from writing students papers. This is sufficient because he makes a connection with his audience of Post-secondary education because it will make them cringe when they see those emails from students that are at the level of education that these professors are teaching. It also shows them that students in their classes could be doing this and it is a massive problem in the school