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personally. There are a number of flaws in this logic. First, if the skill to be evaluated is outsourcing, rather than essay writing, then that should be made clear in the course syllabus (One would assume it would only be relevant in specific business management courses anyway.). I suspect, though, that this would quickly result in a devaluing of the degrees granted by any university that allowed this practice; despite what cheating students and professional essay writers would like to believe, most businesses consider the ability to write a more important skill than the ability to hire a writer.

The second flaw here is that this argument supposes that ghost-writing is much more widespread than it really is. When I'm hired to ghost-write, it is exclusively for senior executives (I've never ghost-written anything for someone below the level of vice president.). Junior executives are expected to write their own materials. The reason is simple: ghost-writing services are expensive. A reasonably competent professional writer will easily charge $30 or more an hour, and that rate goes up dramatically if the piece requires specific expertise. Essentially, you are paying for two services: the writing itself and the right to put your name on the work in place of the ghost-writer's name. To give an example, I once ghost-wrote a 10-page paper for a company president; owing to the complexity of the project, the price was $500, or $50 per page. Since the company president's time was worth much more than $50 an hour, it made financial sense to outsource the work so that the president could be freed to use that time more profitably. So the value of the executive's time is really the primary rationale in whether or not to hire a ghost writer - not the executive's writing skills, which may be quite strong.

And this brings us to the next flaw in the ghost-writing-as-outsourcing argument. Anyone who has ever purchased an academic paper (and will admit to it) will tell you that the price wasn't anything close to $50 per page. This is because the quality of the work you can purchase from a professional essay writer is simply not at a professional level. To be blunt: if the professional essay writer was skilled enough to write professional-quality work, students wouldn't be able to afford his or her services. So all a student really learns from purchasing an essay writer's services is how to outsource substandard work.

The final argument that often comes from professional essay writers

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