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Ed Dante's The Shadow Scholar

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In the article the “The Shadow Scholar”, Ed Dante is trying to explain how the students take help of the companies to make assignments on their behalf. He his working for one such company. The companies are earning a lot of money by preparing the assignments as the students are not bothered for the assignments.
Students are not even able to type a proper email regarding their assignments and the students tend to score good marks in their assignments, colleges should test each of the student individually because at the end of the day, the student is not able to learn anything new from the assignments assigned to them as they hire companies to complete their assignments which even takes care of plagiarism.
Sometimes the deadline for the assignments

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