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The Shadow Scholar: How I Made A Living Helping College Kids Cheat (2012)

by Dave Tomar(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1608197239 (ISBN13: 9781608197231)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: If I hadn't spent nearly twenty years around big universities, I would have thought that this book was fictional. As it is, it is still hard to believe that there is such a large industry in writing papers for other people. The author clearly still has a major axe to grind with Rutgers, but his version of his story sounds like it has a nugget of truth. My time at universities in this country has made it clear to me that far too many decisions are being made due to the influence of money as opposed to scholarship or teaching. While the author may have gotten paid for writing other peoples' essays, he clearly wrote things that were shorter than a book. His prose style is informal and breezy and easy to read, but I felt the structure of the whole book was flimsier than I... more had hoped it would be. There was a rushed quality to the later chapters that I did not feel in the beginning of the book.IT is not a great work of social criticism, but if you are interested in the state of higher educatiojn today, I would definitely recommend this book.
review 2: Oh, my. The author of this book made a living writing papers (also called "study guides") for high school, college, master, and even PhD students. Very scary as I had no idea this was going on to this extent. He was, at times, even hired by parents who wanted their child to get a good grade/get into a top-notch college. The writing was good, if at times repetitive. It sounds like the author had a terrible experience at Rutgers so often sounds overly bitter and critical of colleges and universities. Overall enlightening. less

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