Australian Information and Essay Site
This Australian website is an interesting twist on the concept of plagiarism … this is, among other things, an essay database for “research and learning” rather than for buying and submitting. Note also that it is accessible via SMS rather than via credit card over the web – therefore targetting schoolkids via their preferred mode of communication.
Although it is clearly not the sort of site that I would be comfortable recommending to students, I am struggling to articulate in what respect this site *isn’t* a great resource based on ideas of sharing resources, learning from each other, seeing a range of approaches to a topic. Probably the closest I get is to say that the process of doing research is more critical in building knowledge than the outcome of that research … ie it is more important to search for knowledge than to find answers …