Essay writing services are evil

[Anakin McFly]

http://samedayessay.com/order

Got there via some ad, and they had a customer service chat open so I proceeded to morally berate them.

"ok," the guy said, after giving an obviously copypasted answer about how it's not their responsibility if their customers decide to plagiarise the essays that were custom-written for them (with free unlimited revisions!), because they seek to promote 'learning, not cheating'. *facepalm*

it's also ridiculous that they announce all over that their services are not cheating and are "100% plagiarism free!!!" when their WHOLE BUSINESS MODEL runs on plagiarism.

I don't think they actually know what plagiarism or cheating means.

I mean, I know there are tons of such services around, but the level of dishonesty and twisting of definitions they use to make it sound like they're not actually helping students to cheat is enraging. I spent so many sleepless nights in university trying to finish term papers, and these jerks were paying other people to do their work for them and ace the course with no effort on their part. Or the essays that we need to write in applying for universities, or scholarships, or jobs, stuff that has a significant impact on one's future and whose opportunities will, because of this phenomenon, get even more skewed towards the rich and untalented.

a testimonial from another site: “Just wanted to send a note to say thanks. Your paper helped me get a 2:1 for my degree!! I can now apply for my Masters! Thanks ever so much!! Do you write to Masters level?" - Lucy, Stratford-upon-Avon

[Ptolemy_Banana]

I never knew such things existed, they're pretty disgraceful. Saying that their services are 100% plagiarism free...well that means they either genuinely don't know what the word means or they're insulting you by suggesting you don't!

[Anakin McFly]

They seem to be saying "We don't plagiarise! It's just our customers who do!" Which is... technically accurate, I guess.

I found a bunch of articles about the phenomenon, and apparently it's not just essays but other schoolwork (in some cases, entire online courses), including one nuclear engineering student who outsourced his assignments to those services. That does not sound safe.

And imagine if medical students are doing the same (at least some probably are), get hired into important positions based on their stellar grades, and then proceed to accidentally kill people because they have no idea what they're doing. :/

[Anakin McFly]

Schadenfreude: http://m.smh.com.au/nsw/mymaster-essay- ... 425oe.html

[sikax]

I used to do that. I mean, write people's papers for them (for a fee, of course). I never really felt...bad about it. In the end we'd get together and I'd walk them through the paper I had written them just in case they had to explain any part of it, so I like to think they were learning, not cheating.

[Anakin McFly]

SHUN

Although that's slightly less bad, if you actually went through the essay with them and explained it. But it's still bad.

[sikax]

[phe_de]

There are sites that generate random stuff, but on their website, claim it's for amusement.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

And of course, there's the "Postmodernism Generator", which spoofs obfuscating writing style.
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/