Monday, September 11, 2006

 

Outsourcing


Cada vez más, los ejecutivos de las empresas estadounidenses recurren al "outsourcing" a países como India o China para reducir sus costes.

Según New York Times y Wall Street Journal, los hijos de esos ejecutivos están siguiendo el ejemplo de sus padres, y ahora se dedican a hacer oursourcing de sus "deberes escolares".

At $9.95 a Page, You Expected Poetry?

THE Web site for an outfit called Term Paper Relief features a picture of a young college student chewing her lip.

“Damn!” a little comic-strip balloon says. “I’ll have to cancel my Saturday night date to finish my term paper before the Monday deadline.”

Well, no, she won’t — not if she’s enterprising enough to enlist Term Paper Relief to write it for her. For $9.95 a page she can obtain an “A-grade” paper that is fashioned to order and “completely non-plagiarized.”

[...]

How good are the results? [...] an editor ordered three English literature papers from three different sites on standard, often-assigned topics: one comparing and contrasting Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Orwell’s “1984”; one discussing the nature of Ophelia’s madness in “Hamlet”; and one exploring the theme of colonialism in Conrad’s “Lord Jim.”
Según el reportero del NYTimes, un profesor de Harvard calificó uno de los "papers", pero no quedó muy impresionado por el contenido:
... I would probably give it a D+ ...
(Pero, como dice el título del artículo, a $9.95 la página, no puedes pedir poesía.)

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