The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat
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Overview
“[A] stunning tale of academic fraud . . . shocking and compelling.”-The Washington Post
Dave Tomar wrote term papers for a living. Technically, the papers were “study guides,” and the companies he wrote for-there are quite a few-are completely aboveboard and easily found with a quick web search. For as little as ten dollars a page, these paper mills provide a custom essay, written to the specifics of any course assignment. During Tomar’s career as an academic surrogate, he wrote made-to-order papers for everything from introductory college courses to Ph.D. dissertations. There was never a shortage of demand for his services. The Shadow Scholar is the story of this dubious but all-too-common career. In turns shocking, absurd, and ultimately sobering, Tomar explores not merely his own misdeeds but the bureaucratic and cash-hungry colleges, lazy students, and even misguided parents who help make it all possible.
CHRONICLE PIECE CAUSED A FIRESTORM: After writing his article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ed Dante was written up in USA Today, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He also appeared (disguised) on ABC News. A number of media sources have since expressed interest in this story, including NPR, MSNBC, and The Laura Ingraham Show.
THE SAD TRUTH ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF COLLEGE: Through the author’s experience, this book pulls back the curtain on some of the most questionable practices of big, money-making universities, and how they undermine the stated purpose of education.
PROVOCATIVE: Ed Dante has everything from English 101 papers to graduate dissertations. His employer and companies like it are part of a whole network that facilitates plagiarism and fraud that run rampant through academia. Parents and newspapers and hard-working students will be astonished by what he reveals here.
THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING READ: Ed Dante is an experienced, talented professional writer, and it shows. His sharp wit and effortless writing style make this book not merely a tell-all but an engrossing, memorable story.
- Title: The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat
- Author: Dave Tomar
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781620400197, 9781620400180, 1620400189, 1620400197
- Resource ID: LLS:9781620400197
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:26:40Z
Dave Tomar is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer and a graduate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick.