I was perusing online and came across several of these sites, so I said: “Why not?!”.
I’m such a loser, I know.
I’ve been overwhelmed with all the amount of work i’ve been faced with lately…So, I gave in.
Has anyone ever “paid” someone else to do their work for them?
I’m new to this…I hope I won’t get screwed at the end!
These sites are legit, right?
Do share your thoughts, opinions…
They’re “legit” in that they’re within the law. Doesn’t mean what you’re doing is right, in any way at all.
Buying a term paper that someone else has written is plagiarism. It’s easily discovered (if you found them easily online, chances are that your professor/teacher can too).
Recently, there was one printed at the reference desk at the library where I work. It was full of grammatical errors, factual errors and basically any other type of error you can come up with.
Far easier, and much more honest, to go talk to your instructor about an extension and write it yourself.
I second what Lsura said, and I’ll add – as a freshman comp teacher who has seen a LOT of plagiarism over the years – that even if the paper is well-written, there are a huge number of things that can be dead giveaways. If the teacher notices that the writing style doesn’t match the work you’ve turned in for earlier assignments, you’re screwed … and believe it or not, most of us do have a finely honed sense of writing style. You’ll also have some explaining to do if the paper mentions concepts that haven’t been discussed in class and that the average undergraduate is unlikely to be familiar with, or, conversely, if the author of the paper is conspicuously ignorant of something that HAS been covered in the class. Or if the professor is so enchanted with (or suspicious of, or horrified by) the paper that he decides to engage you in conversation about your research process and line of thinking. Or if it turns out to be the same paper that the last kid with the same bright idea turned in last semester.
You get the idea. And remember, if you turn in a paper late or not at all, the absolute worst thing that can happen to you is that you fail the course and have to take it again. That may not seem like an appealing prospect in the short term, but it’s a hell of a lot less unpleasant than getting suspended or expelled from all your classes and having a permanent disciplinary record that you’ll have to explain to grad schools and prospective employers years down the road.
If your professor is even vaguely wake, you’ll most likely get an F. As Lsaura points out, fake papers are easy to spot. Either they’re really bad, or, more likely, they will be written in a style completely different to the paper you handed in last week. It’s stupid way to be thrown out of school.
I’m not terribly proud of it these days, but I accepted a hell of a lot of money to write other peoples’ term papers for them when I was fresh out of high school and needed a hell of a lot of money to… um… well, actually, to support my bad habits…
There are any number of college students, I discovered, with a ridiculous amount of money and no brains at all, who can’t be bothered with such things, and will cheerfully hand you hundreds of dollars when they need a decent term paper built from scratch in two days. I once charged someone more than $300 when he begged me to help him out (on Saturday) for a nine-page paper that was due Monday morning… and this was back in the early eighties.
I would like to say I ceased to do it because it was wrong, possibly illegal, immoral, and lots of other stuff. Truth is, I gave it up because I came pretty close to being caught, once, due to the near-complete idiocy of one of my customers. Wound up sitting through an hour-long grilling… after which nothing could be proven, so I walked. It very much brought home the potential consequences of what I was doing… namely, the throwing away of quite a few college hours in which I’d invested a lot of time and money.
Idiot Customer never realized how close I came. Or, for that matter, how close SHE came, since they apparently didn’t grill her the way they grilled me. Why? I dunno.
The moral of the story is: Sometimes, One Must Get Real Close To The Edge To Appreciate The Length Of The Fall. I was lucky they didn’t have any solid evidence on me, and I learned an important lesson.
Nowadays, on the other hand, idiot collegians can Google up nearly anything, cut-and-paste it into Microsoft Word, and cheerfully torpedo themselves without ever realizing that professors can use Google too…
DO NOT DO THIS! It is incredibly easy for teachers to find out if you have plagiarized something. In most places, it has become standard procedure to run every paper through some sort of plagiarism checker. It can be as simple as typing a few lines into Google.
If you can find the paper, so can your teacher.
One thing to note, Lsura, is that these sites ask you to pay, and then someone on their staff writes the paper. So, no, it really can’t be found through normal methods of tracking plagiarism. In this case, you are paying someone else to create a work and then give you rights to that work.
That said, I would never do it. Maybe because I’m a stingy bastard, but for whatever reason, it seems like doing the paper (even if you have to ask for an extension) is often easier and rewarding. What if you don’t get the paper by the due date?
As for writing styles, thus far, two of my required College English classes have had one assignment-- a final paper due at the end of the semester, worth the entire grade. We turned nothing else in all semester, so in a case like that, the professor has nothing to compare it to.
To each his own, though. These sites are most certainly legal, so if you have no moral qualms with it, then go for it.
That’s what they claim they’re doing. Whether it’s really a unique paper is a different matter.
Here’s a program called Plagiarism Checker that will analyze them and compare with others online.
Ask for an extension and if that’s not possible, turn in an inferior product. There’s no sense getting an F or expelled for plagiarism.
Oops, that’s the link from Tucows. Here’s from the manufacturer’s website.
Whilst buying a product that someone else has written is not “against the law”, turning it in as your own work is. It is also unethical, immoral, and a violation of the code of conduct at almost every school. If you do it in the real world, you’d get sued or fired.
I am therefore closing this thread.
Discussions of illegal activities, or of how to sneak past the law and not be caught, are not permitted here.