This article is from WeChat official account:China-Singapore Jingwei (ID: jwview) , Authors: Zhang Yanzheng, Zhang Yi (Interns), Editor: Lin Wansi, Reviewer: Luo Kun, head picture from: Visual China
Recently, the topic “Zhai Tianlin, are you asleep” has aroused heated discussion on social media. On this topic, some netizens said that “the paper has been revised completely beyond recognition, and the weight reduction has not yet been reduced.” “The school’s weight check fee has soared to 800+”, “After checking it four times, it is not enough. Zhai Tianlin will pay for my living expenses.” …
In the early morning of the 24th, actor Zhai Tianlin posted a post on Weibo through personal real-name authentication:
At the beginning of 2019, when Zhai Tianlin asked “what is CNKI” in the live broadcast room, the authenticity of his doctorate degree was questioned by public opinion, which also aroused great attention from the academic community on the phenomenon of plagiarism. Since then, many colleges and universities have lowered the check rate of papers. A netizen who graduated that year recalled that “in previous years, 20% of the paper’s duplicate check rate was suppressed to below 15%.”
This year was also dubbed by the majority of graduates as the “Three Years of Tianlin”, which is the third year of the “Wuzhiwang” incident by Zhai Tianlin. Many graduates reported that the requirement for the checking rate of papers has become more stringent, which not only “emptied the body” for the paper checking and weight reduction, but also “emptied the wallet.”
So, how much money will be burned by the weight of the paper?
“We spent more than 6000 yuan on the purchase of thesis review and weight reduction services. At that time, the repetition rate showed that it was qualified, but the school failed to pass the review.” As the graduation season approaches, Li Fei, a graduate student in a university in Hebei, is still unsuccessful in her graduation thesis. In order to reduce the repetition rate of the paper, he purchased the paper checking and weight reduction service on an e-commerce platform, but the “service” effect was not ideal. “The essay wrote about 60,000 words, and it only cost 3700 yuan to reduce the weight. But after the other party reduced the weight, the meaning of the essay was allchanged. “
Like Li Fei, many college graduates are also worried about the weight of the paper. As a result, some graduates choose to purchase the paper check and weight reduction services on the e-commerce platform, and the price of paper check and weight reduction has risen all the way, and the price of duplicate check in some stores has skyrocketed 10 times within a year.
The price of duplicate inspections has soared 10 times within one year
“The price of duplicate inspections has risen too fast. I only spent 128 yuan on Taobao for duplicate inspections a year ago. Now I want to buy again and found that the price has risen to 380 yuan.” said Zhang Yue, a college graduate in Sichuan From the first draft to the final version of the paper, she purchased five or six times to check the duplicates of CNKI. At present, she has invested nearly two thousand yuan in duplicate checking of the thesis.
Although the school provides graduates with free essay re-checking opportunities every year, there are often fewer re-checks, which cannot meet the needs of graduates’ thesis writing. Moreover, the double-check rate of papers is an important reference standard for paper submission and defense, so graduates will find ways to find more opportunities for double-checking.
I opened an e-commerce platform and searched for the keyword “Knowledge.com”. Sino-Singapore Jingwei noticed that there are not a few sellers that provide this service. Among them, the double-check price for undergraduate thesis is between 180 yuan and 500 yuan, and the double-check price for master thesis is more than 1,300 yuan, and the highest price is 1,800 yuan.
HowNet Papers Duplicate Check Report Form
The requirements for the repetition rate of papers vary according to different schools and educational backgrounds. According to PaperFree, a paper review website, some colleges and universities require a repetition rate of 20% to 30% to be considered qualified, while other colleges require more requirements. Strict, the repetition rate of the paper must be controlled within 5%~10% to be qualified.
Requirements for duplicate checking of thesis for graduates of a college in Sichuan
As a graduate, Sino-Singapore Jingwei contacted a seller on an e-commerce platform who claimed to be able to provide thesis review service. The store customer service said it was sellingUndergraduate thesis and master’s degree All the essay checking services are duplicate checking on HowNet,“We use the remaining places in the school”. The store information shows that the price for undergraduate thesis check is 220 yuan, and for master and doctoral thesis check is 1,380 yuan.
The historical price information of the products sold in the store is disclosed. From May 2020 to May 2021, the price of master and doctoral dissertations soared from 140 yuan to 1,380 yuan, and even rose to 1980 yuan in July last year. Soaring nearly 10 times within a year.
A screenshot of the historical price of the master-doctoral paper check service sold on an e-commerce platform
On May 19, CNKI’s official customer service told China-Singapore Jingwei that HowNet provides the paper review service only for institutions, and individuals cannot purchase the review service through CNKI’s official channels. “We are also not very clear about the pricing method and specific price of the duplication check service. We need to ask the sales of the duplication check service.”
Why are colleges’ free duplicate check quotas sold at high prices on e-commerce platforms? The relevant person in charge of CNKI’s Legal Affairs Department previously stated in an interview with CCTV Finance, “One situation is that there are some people in universities reselling CNKI accounts, and the school has some extra testing papers, which may be taken by some people. Go to use.”
A seller receives 4694 orders in the first quarter
Rechecking is only the first step, and reducing the repetition rate is the most important step. Looking back on the past years, graduates will make great moves for thesis: usually they use methods such as word order change, synonym substitution, text conversion, etc. However, whenWhen these methods failed, some graduates began to pin their hopes on the high-priced paper weight reduction services provided by the merchants.
Zhongxin Jingwei searched for “weight reduction” on the e-commerce platform and found that the keyword has been blocked by the platform. However, the business related to paper weight reduction is still hidden in the paper weight check for sale.
An e-commerce seller introduced to Sino-Singapore Jingwei that on the platform, there are professional manual teachers to modify the papers and reduce the weight to ensure that the sentences are smooth and the original intent remains unchanged. The weight reduction price needs to be calculated based on the weight check report, and the weight reduction work can be completed in 2 to 3 days under normal circumstances. The seller revealed that all college teachers participated in the paper weight reduction work, and said that 4,694 orders have been received this quarter, and an average of 150 orders a day, “received orders softly.”
Another seller also stated that on the platform, teachers on the job and school provide weight-reduction services, and they have extensive experience in modifying CNKI report forms. “Revised to a repetition rate of less than 20%, the price is about 4500 yuan, Baozhiwang tested the standard, and finally you will be given the standard report form and the modified document.” The staff member said that the price is based on The workload, time, requirements and difficulty of the duplicate check report provided by the purchaser are comprehensively measured.
A screenshot of Sino-Singapore Jingwei chatting with a seller
It is worth mentioning that both weight reduction agencies stated that payment can only be made by transfer, and payment via third-party trading platforms is not supported.
“I spent 2700 yuan on a certain e-commerce platform to buy papers to reduce the weight, and the repetition rate has dropped, but the language logic is chaotic, and I can’t pass the mentor’s level.” Zhang Xin, a college graduate in Hebei, is right. New Jingwei said.
On social media platforms, many graduates complained that they did not achieve the desired results after purchasing the essay weight reduction service.
@想 Be a salted fish lying down: “The weight of the paper is reduced by 700 yuan. Don’t trust others easily. Do the important things by yourself. Let’s change and delay the snack. It’s not too small.”
@shmily: “What did you get by spending money to reduce weight? The teacher said: ‘Your sentence is unprofessional and you can’t read it smoothly. I can’t read it anymore.’”
@月月无月: “I hope that graduates who need to reduce the weight really don’t blindly believe that the lesson of blood, people still have to rely on themselves.”
Expert: Spending a high price to reduce weight is a speculation
In an interview with Sino-Singapore Jingwei, a lawyer from Beijing Yunjia Law Firm, Zhao Zhanzhu said that although the e-commerce platform sold the high-priced CNKI paper check quota provided to students for free, it was not suspected of illegality, and university teachers secretly sold CNKI check Heavy Opportunity has not touched the relevant laws and regulations, but the above two actions may violate the relevant agreements of CNKI and need to bear the corresponding liability for breach of contract. Under normal circumstances, CNKI will ban accounts that have violated transfers, leases, etc.
“The purchase of paid essay weight reduction services by college students does not involve illegality, but in principle, there may be irregular academic behavior.” Zhao Zhanzhu pointed out that The high repetition rate of graduation thesis is not entirely due to plagiarism. Many students It’s just that the academic norms are not clear, which leads to too many citations or unreasonable citation formats, which leads to a high rate of duplication of papers. “Rather than paying high prices for weight-reduction services, it is better to strictly abide by the academic essay writing norms during the writing process, and think about feasible essay improvement paths from your own perspective.”
Jiang Han, a senior researcher at Pangu Think Tank, told Sino-Singapore Jingwei that the purpose of checking papers is to make the process of students’ academic creation more standardized and to ensure the originality of academic achievements. Spending high prices to purchase weight-reduction services is actually a kind of opportunistic behavior. As far as the entire academic norms are concerned, it has not exerted its execution power, let alone the value of traditional papers.
(At the request of the interviewee, Li Fei, Zhang Yue, and Zhang Xin are all aliases in the text)
This article is from WeChat official account:China-Singapore Jingwei (ID: jwview), Authors: Zhang Yanzheng, Zhang Yi