Tournament: Emory | Round: 2 | Opponent: West Broward AC | Judge: David Joannides
CP Text: Public Colleges and Universities ought to ban papers and assignments produced by companies who sell them to students who turn them in as original work for academic credit.
Essay writing services are constitutionally protected
Duke Law Journal (http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2467andcontext=dlj)
The preparation and sale
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to distribute information
Tens of thousands of students use these services each year
Vaughn 17 (https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/education/doncaster-education-cold-spot/)
The consequences for companies
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are using these services
Restrictions by a public college or university are essential to stop the problem at its source and maintain academic integrity
Yorke 17
We have to go after
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they've made real progress
Draper 17
The greatest value in
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face-to-face assessment
Essay Companies harm education, destroying students’ ability to successfully gain important writing and communication skills.
Laws 15 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-laws/the-shocking-truth-about-_5_b_7041934.html)
These services are creating
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communications an writing skills
Gunderman 12 (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/write-my-essay-please/264036/)
The roots of this problem
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all the work for them
Academic integrity is critical: we cannot have a moral society without regulations that protect and prepare students
CAI 99 (http://www.academicintegrity.org/icai/assets/FVProject.pdf)
Higher education and society
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for society as a whole