paper mill
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪpər mɪl/
- Neologism
:
plagio académico
- My personal opinion is that EC-Council is nothing but a money-making paper mill.
Part of the citations, it turns out, come from paper mills.
- Part of the citations, it turns out, come from paper mills.
Examples
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It only makes sense that if paper mills are already producing gibberish publications, they might as well sell the citations too.
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Some of the first paper collars in the country were manufactured two miles north of Ballston by Lindley Murray Crane, a paper mill owner and holder of three patents.
Blog text (29) -
So let's say you own a paper mill, right?
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In my opinion, this is a diploma paper mill at best that will have its license revoked sooner or later as per the legislature revoking all unaccredited programs.
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And while some non-lawyer service providers are knowledgeable, ethical, and careful to send clients with questionable cases to an attorney, many are little more than for-profit paper mills, providing one-size-fits-all documents to unwary customers.
Academic text (2002) -
Many students resort to paper mills for quick, inexpensive essays, but the quality is often poor.
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The rise of online paper mills raises concerns about academic integrity in higher education.
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He was warned that hiring a paper mill could lead to serious consequences for his grades.
Synonyms
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A business that sells essays for students to hand in as their own work
A company that publishes many low quality books to make money
How Ethical
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'paper' (documents/sheets) and 'mill' (a facility that manufactures or processes goods) can plausibly infer the basic idea of an operation that produces papers, so the core compositional logic is accessible. However, the specific specialized sense referring to an academic/essay service and its negative connotations (fabricated or plagiarised work) is a metaphorical extension and not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The modern use of paper mill borrows that factory picture: a mill that churns out lots of paper quickly, so people use it to mean 'a business that makes fake or bought research papers'.