Have you or your kids ever written a research paper for school? Were you crushed with work and fearful of not making the deadline? Were your research skills poor, or is English your second language?

Have you ever wished, however briefly and however wistfully, that you could just give it to someone else to do for you?

Read this article, and wonder how many of the other kids felt the same … And messed up the ‘curve’ because they could afford to do something about it.

The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story (Houston Chronicle, Nov. 12, 2010)