3. The method of claim 1 wherein the essay response is a bad faith essay response if at least one of these outcomes is true: the essay response and a human-verified bad faith essay are sufficiently similar, and markers of direct address occur in the essay response at a predetermined frequency.
1. A computer-implemented method of detecting a bad faith essay response, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of essay prompts with a computer; receiving an essay response in the computer associated with a particular essay prompt of the plurality of essay prompts; scoring by the computer the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt against each of the plurality of essay prompts to generate plural similarity scores; and determining by the computer if the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt is a bad faith essay response based at least in part on determining whether the plural similarity scores indicate that the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt is sufficiently dissimilar to each of the plurality of essay prompts.