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Buying College Essays Is Now Easier Than Ever. But Buyer Beware

Tovia Smith

Concern is growing about a burgeoning online market for essays that students can buy and turn in as their own work. And schools are trying new tools to catch it. Angela Hsieh/NPR hide caption

Concern is growing about a burgeoning online market for essays that students can buy and turn in as their own work. And schools are trying new tools to catch it.

As the recent college admissions scandal is shedding light on how parents are cheating and bribing their children's way into college, schools are also focusing on how some students may be cheating their way through college. Concern is growing about a burgeoning online market that makes it easier than ever for students to buy essays written by others to turn in as their own work. And schools are trying new tools to catch it.

It's not hard to understand the temptation for students. The pressure is enormous, the stakes are high and, for some, writing at a college level is a huge leap.

"We didn't really have a format to follow, so I was kind of lost on what to do," says one college freshman, who struggled recently with an English assignment. One night, when she was feeling particularly overwhelmed, she tweeted her frustration.

"It was like, 'Someone, please help me write my essay!' " she recalls. She ended her tweet with a crying emoji. Within a few minutes, she had a half-dozen offers of help.

"I can write it for you," they tweeted back. "Send us the prompt!"

The student, who asked that her name not be used for fear of repercussions at school, chose one that asked for $10 per page, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"For me, it was just that the work was piling up," she explains. "As soon as I finish some big assignment, I get assigned more things, more homework for math, more homework for English. Some papers have to be six or 10 pages long. ... And even though I do my best to manage, the deadlines come closer and closer, and it's just ... the pressure."

In the cat-and-mouse game of academic cheating, students these days know that if they plagiarize, they're likely to get caught by computer programs that automatically compare essays against a massive database of other writings. So now, buying an original essay can seem like a good workaround.

"Technically, I don't think it's cheating," the student says. "Because you're paying someone to write an essay, which they don't plagiarize, and they write everything on their own."

Her logic, of course, ignores the question of whether she's plagiarizing. When pressed, she begins to stammer.

"That's just a difficult question to answer," she says. "I don't know how to feel about that. It's kind of like a gray area. It's maybe on the edge, kind of?"

Besides she adds, she probably won't use all of it.

Other students justify essay buying as the only way to keep up. They figure that everyone is doing it one way or another — whether they're purchasing help online or getting it from family or friends.

"Oh yeah, collaboration at its finest," cracks Boston University freshman Grace Saathoff. While she says she would never do it herself, she's not really fazed by others doing it. She agrees with her friends that it has pretty much become socially acceptable.

"I have a friend who writes essays and sells them," says Danielle Delafuente, another Boston University freshman. "And my other friend buys them. He's just like, 'I can't handle it. I have five papers at once. I need her to do two of them, and I'll do the other three.' It's a time management thing."

The war on contract cheating

"It breaks my heart that this is where we're at," sighs Ashley Finley, senior adviser to the president for the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She says campuses are abuzz about how to curb the rise in what they call contract cheating. Obviously, students buying essays is not new, but Finley says that what used to be mostly limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed on the internet to become a global industry of so-called essay mills. Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but research suggests that up to 16 percent of students have paid someone to do their work and that the number is rising.

"Definitely, this is really getting more and more serious," Finley says. "It's part of the brave new world for sure."

The essay mills market aggressively online, with slickly produced videos inviting students to "Get instant help with your assignment" and imploring them: "Don't lag behind," "Join the majority" and "Don't worry, be happy."

"They're very crafty," says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California in San Diego and a board member of the International Center for Academic Integrity.

The companies are equally brazen offline — leafleting on campuses, posting flyers in toilet stalls and flying banners over Florida beaches during spring break. Companies have also been known to bait students with emails that look like they're from official college help centers. And they pay social media influencers to sing the praises of their services, and they post testimonials from people they say are happy customers.

"I hired a service to write my paper and I got a 90 on it!" gloats one. "Save your time, and have extra time to party!" advises another.

"It's very much a seduction," says Bertram Gallant. "So you can maybe see why students could get drawn into the contract cheating world."

YouTube has been cracking down on essay mills; it says it has pulled thousands of videos that violate its policies against promoting dishonest behavior.

But new videos constantly pop up, and their hard sell flies in the face of their small-print warnings that their essays should be used only as a guide, not a final product.

Several essay mills declined or didn't respond to requests to be interviewed by NPR. But one answered questions by email and offered up one of its writers to explain her role in the company, called EduBirdie.

"Yes, just like the little birdie that's there to help you in your education," explains April Short, a former grade school teacher from Australia who's now based in Philadelphia. She has been writing for a year and a half for the company, which bills itself as a "professional essay writing service for students who can't even."

Some students just want some "foundational research" to get started or a little "polish" to finish up, Short says. But the idea that many others may be taking a paper written completely by her and turning it in as their own doesn't keep her up at night.

"These kids are so time poor," she says, and they're "missing out on opportunities of travel and internships because they're studying and writing papers." Relieving students of some of that burden, she figures, allows them to become more "well-rounded."

"I don't necessarily think that being able to create an essay is going to be a defining factor in a very long career, so it's not something that bothers me," says Short. Indeed, she thinks students who hire writers are demonstrating resourcefulness and creativity. "I actually applaud students that look for options to get the job done and get it done well," she says.

"This just shows you the extent of our ability to rationalize all kinds of bad things we do," sighs Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. The rise in contract cheating is especially worrisome, he says, because when it comes to dishonest behavior, more begets more. As he puts it, it's not just about "a few bad apples."

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"Instead, what we have is a lot ... of blemished apples, and we take our cues for our behavior from the social world around us," he says. "We know officially what is right and what's wrong. But really what's driving our behavior is what we see others around us doing" or, Ariely adds, what we perceive them to be doing. So even the proliferation of advertising for essays mills can have a pernicious effect, he says, by fueling the perception that "everyone's doing it."

A few nations have recently proposed or passed laws outlawing essay mills, and more than a dozen U.S. states have laws on the books against them. But prosecuting essay mills, which are often based overseas in Pakistan, Kenya and Ukraine, for example, is complicated. And most educators are loath to criminalize students' behavior.

"Yes, they're serious mistakes. They're egregious mistakes," says Cath Ellis, an associate dean and integrity officer at the University of New South Wales, where students were among the hundreds alleged to have bought essays in a massive scandal in Australia in 2014.

"But we're educational institutions," she adds. "We've got to give students the opportunity to learn from these mistakes. That's our responsibility. And that's better in our hands than in the hands of the police and the courts."

Staying one step ahead

In the war on contract cheating, some schools see new technology as their best weapon and their best shot to stay one step ahead of unscrupulous students. The company that makes the Turnitin plagiarism detection software has just upped its game with a new program called Authorship Investigate.

The software first inspects a document's metadata, like when it was created, by whom it was created and how many times it was reopened and re-edited. Turnitin's vice president for product management, Bill Loller, says sometimes it's as simple as looking at the document's name. Essay mills typically name their documents something like "Order Number 123," and students have been known to actually submit it that way. "You would be amazed at how frequently that happens," says Loller.

Using cutting-edge linguistic forensics, the software also evaluates the level of writing and its style.

"Think of it as a writing fingerprint," Loller says. The software looks at hundreds of telltale characteristics of an essay, like whether the author double spaces after a period or writes with Oxford commas or semicolons. It all gets instantly compared against a student's other work, and, Loller says, suspicions can be confirmed — or alleviated — in minutes.

"At the end of the day, you get to a really good determination on whether the student wrote what they submitted or not," he says, "and you get it really quickly."

Coventry University in the U.K. has been testing out a beta version of the software, and Irene Glendinning, the school's academic manager for student experience, agrees that the software has the potential to give schools a leg up on cheating students. After the software is officially adopted, "we'll see a spike in the number of cases we find, and we'll have a very hard few years," she says. "But then the message will get through to students that we've got the tools now to find these things out." Then, Glendinning hopes, students might consider contract cheating to be as risky as plagiarizing.

In the meantime, schools are trying to spread the word that buying essays is risky in other ways as well.

Professor Ariely says that when he posed as a student and ordered papers from several companies, much of it was "gibberish" and about a third of it was actually plagiarized.

Even worse, when he complained to the company and demanded his money back, they resorted to blackmail. Still believing him to be a student, the company threatened to tell his school he was cheating. Others say companies have also attempted to shake down students for more money, threatening to rat them out if they didn't pay up.

The lesson, Ariely says, is "buyer beware."

But ultimately, experts say, many desperate students may not be deterred by the risks — whether from shady businesses or from new technology.

Bertram Gallant, of UC San Diego, says the right way to dissuade students from buying essays is to remind them why it's wrong.

"If we engage in a technological arms race with the students, we won't win," she says. "What are we going to do when Google glasses start to look like regular glasses and a student wears them into an exam? Are we going to tell them they can't wear their glasses because we're afraid they might be sending the exam out to someone else who is sending them back the answers?"

The solution, Bertram Gallant says, has to be about "creating a culture where integrity and ethics matter" and where education is valued more than grades. Only then will students believe that cheating on essays is only cheating themselves.

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Is It Ethical to Buy Essays Online?

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Why Students Buy Essays from Online Services

So why do students buy essays online instead of writing their own? There are many reasons, but three of the most common are: • a lack of confidence in their own writing skills; • a lack of time to complete the work; • personal obligations, challenges, and crises that prevent them from engaging in      learning activities. More often than not, students are buying essays as a way to compensate for problems and challenges in their own life, not because they are lazy. This problem, however, has been exacerbated by changes in how colleges assign work. Colleges and universities have made two changes in recent decades that have increased the number of essays students are writing. The first involves disability accommodations. Because assignments must now be inclusive for all students, college essays have become the default assignment type so instructors can avoid the extra work of creating alternative assignments for students who are unable to participate in more creative projects. Essays are generally recognized as accessible and do not require alternatives in most cases. The second change is the rise of rubric grading. To prevent grade disputes from escalating, assignments are now graded on strict criteria, and once again, essays became the default assignment because they require minimal additional work to create new grading rubrics and their rubrics can be standardized across a college to ensure fairness—and minimal disputes.

The Legality Question

Before we can examine the ethics of buying essays online, it’s best to first ask whether it’s legal to do so. Many students are concerned about whether hiring a writer to produce an essay for them is safe and legit. The good news is that it is completely legal to hire someone to write an essay for you. Under the First Amendment, writing a paper falls under free speech and as such is not regulated by the government or subject to legal restrictions. It is completely legal to hire someone to write a paper and for that person to write on any topic, including the assignment you were given in your college course. This is the legal basis for professional writing services offered by companies like WriteMyPaperHub, from which each and every student can easily and quickly buy essay online written by academic experts in accordance with paper specifications. When you place an order with a company like this, you are exercising your free speech rights, and so are the writers who work with students to develop custom essays that show how a professional would answer your essay question. Actually addressing such academic services is a rather affordable solution available 24/7 online.

The Ethical Issue in Buying Essays

The harder question to answer is whether buying a paper is ethical. If you ask most instructors, the answer will clearly be no. They do not want students buying a paper and turning it in as their own work. That is a clear violation of academic honesty policies. But what about less clear-cut situations, where students use papers as a guide to help them with their work or to aid them in structuring, organizing, and developing their papers, or for finding research. In these cases, it can indeed be ethical to buy a paper, just as it is ethical to seek help from a tutor, writing coach, or T.A to help you understand an assignment and do your best on it. The key issues revolve around intention, borrowing, and acknowledgment. First: Are you intending to copy or deceive with the paper that you purchased? If yes, you are in ethical hot water. If not, then you are on the path to using a paper appropriately. Second, are you borrowing directly from the paper that you purchased, by copying language, structure, ideas, or information? The less you borrow directly from the paper, the more solid the ethical footing that you are on. Finally, are you acknowledging your source? Most legit essay companies will provide instructions to show you how to document your use of a paper and cite it on your own as you would any other source. If you follow the rules and use a model paper judiciously as a way to help you develop your own work, then you are more likely to stay on the right side of the ethical line.

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Buying College Essays Is Now Easier Than Ever. But Buyer Beware

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As the recent college admissions scandal is shedding light on how parents are cheating and bribing their children's way into college, schools are also focusing on how some students may be cheating their way through college. Concern is growing about a burgeoning online market that makes it easier than ever for students to buy essays written by others to turn in as their own work. And schools are trying new tools to catch it.

It's not hard to understand the temptation for students. The pressure is enormous, the stakes are high and, for some, writing at a college level is a huge leap.

"We didn't really have a format to follow, so I was kind of lost on what to do," says one college freshman, who struggled recently with an English assignment. One night, when she was feeling particularly overwhelmed, she tweeted her frustration.

"It was like, 'Someone, please help me write my essay!' " she recalls. She ended her tweet with a crying emoji. Within a few minutes, she had a half-dozen offers of help.

"I can write it for you," they tweeted back. "Send us the prompt!"

The student, who asked that her name not be used for fear of repercussions at school, chose one that asked for $10 per page, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"For me, it was just that the work was piling up," she explains. "As soon as I finish some big assignment, I get assigned more things, more homework for math, more homework for English. Some papers have to be six or 10 pages long. ... And even though I do my best to manage, the deadlines come closer and closer, and it's just ... the pressure."

In the cat-and-mouse game of academic cheating, students these days know that if they plagiarize, they're likely to get caught by computer programs that automatically compare essays against a massive database of other writings. So now, buying an original essay can seem like a good workaround.

"Technically, I don't think it's cheating," the student says. "Because you're paying someone to write an essay, which they don't plagiarize, and they write everything on their own."

Her logic, of course, ignores the question of whether she's plagiarizing. When pressed, she begins to stammer.

"That's just a difficult question to answer," she says. "I don't know how to feel about that. It's kind of like a gray area. It's maybe on the edge, kind of?"

Besides she adds, she probably won't use all of it.

Other students justify essay buying as the only way to keep up. They figure that everyone is doing it one way or another — whether they're purchasing help online or getting it from family or friends.

"Oh yeah, collaboration at its finest," cracks Boston University freshman Grace Saathoff. While she says she would never do it herself, she's not really fazed by others doing it. She agrees with her friends that it has pretty much become socially acceptable.

"I have a friend who writes essays and sells them," says Danielle Delafuente, another Boston University freshman. "And my other friend buys them. He's just like, 'I can't handle it. I have five papers at once. I need her to do two of them, and I'll do the other three.' It's a time management thing."

The war on contract cheating

"It breaks my heart that this is where we're at," sighs Ashley Finley, senior adviser to the president for the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She says campuses are abuzz about how to curb the rise in what they call contract cheating. Obviously, students buying essays is not new, but Finley says that what used to be mostly limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed on the internet to become a global industry of so-called essay mills. Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but research suggests that up to 16 percent of students have paid someone to do their work and that the number is rising.

"Definitely, this is really getting more and more serious," Finley says. "It's part of the brave new world for sure."

The essay mills market aggressively online, with slickly produced videos inviting students to "Get instant help with your assignment" and imploring them: "Don't lag behind," "Join the majority" and "Don't worry, be happy."

"They're very crafty," says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California in San Diego and a board member of the International Center for Academic Integrity.

The companies are equally brazen offline — leafleting on campuses, posting flyers in toilet stalls and flying banners over Florida beaches during spring break. Companies have also been known to bait students with emails that look like they're from official college help centers. And they pay social media influencers to sing the praises of their services, and they post testimonials from people they say are happy customers.

"I hired a service to write my paper and I got a 90 on it!" gloats one. "Save your time, and have extra time to party!" advises another.

"It's very much a seduction," says Bertram Gallant. "So you can maybe see why students could get drawn into the contract cheating world."

YouTube has been cracking down on essay mills; it says it has pulled thousands of videos that violate its policies against promoting dishonest behavior.

But new videos constantly pop up, and their hard sell flies in the face of their small-print warnings that their essays should be used only as a guide, not a final product.

Several essay mills declined or didn't respond to requests to be interviewed by NPR. But one answered questions by email and offered up one of its writers to explain her role in the company, called EduBirdie.

"Yes, just like the little birdie that's there to help you in your education," explains April Short, a former grade school teacher from Australia who's now based in Philadelphia. She has been writing for a year and a half for the company, which bills itself as a "professional essay writing service for students who can't even."

Some students just want some "foundational research" to get started or a little "polish" to finish up, Short says. But the idea that many others may be taking a paper written completely by her and turning it in as their own doesn't keep her up at night.

"These kids are so time poor," she says, and they're "missing out on opportunities of travel and internships because they're studying and writing papers." Relieving students of some of that burden, she figures, allows them to become more "well-rounded."

"I don't necessarily think that being able to create an essay is going to be a defining factor in a very long career, so it's not something that bothers me," says Short. Indeed, she thinks students who hire writers are demonstrating resourcefulness and creativity. "I actually applaud students that look for options to get the job done and get it done well," she says.

"This just shows you the extent of our ability to rationalize all kinds of bad things we do," sighs Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. The rise in contract cheating is especially worrisome, he says, because when it comes to dishonest behavior, more begets more. As he puts it, it's not just about "a few bad apples."

"Instead, what we have is a lot ... of blemished apples, and we take our cues for our behavior from the social world around us," he says. "We know officially what is right and what's wrong. But really what's driving our behavior is what we see others around us doing" or, Ariely adds, what we perceive them to be doing. So even the proliferation of advertising for essays mills can have a pernicious effect, he says, by fueling the perception that "everyone's doing it."

A few nations have recently proposed or passed laws outlawing essay mills, and more than a dozen U.S. states have laws on the books against them. But prosecuting essay mills, which are often based overseas in Pakistan, Kenya and Ukraine, for example, is complicated. And most educators are loath to criminalize students' behavior.

"Yes, they're serious mistakes. They're egregious mistakes," says Cath Ellis, an associate dean and integrity officer at the University of New South Wales, where students were among the hundreds alleged to have bought essays in a massive scandal in Australia in 2014.

"But we're educational institutions," she adds. "We've got to give students the opportunity to learn from these mistakes. That's our responsibility. And that's better in our hands than in the hands of the police and the courts."

Staying one step ahead

In the war on contract cheating, some schools see new technology as their best weapon and their best shot to stay one step ahead of unscrupulous students. The company that makes the Turnitin plagiarism detection software has just upped its game with a new program called Authorship Investigate.

The software first inspects a document's metadata, like when it was created, by whom it was created and how many times it was reopened and re-edited. Turnitin's vice president for product management, Bill Loller, says sometimes it's as simple as looking at the document's name. Essay mills typically name their documents something like "Order Number 123," and students have been known to actually submit it that way. "You would be amazed at how frequently that happens," says Loller.

Using cutting-edge linguistic forensics, the software also evaluates the level of writing and its style.

"Think of it as a writing fingerprint," Loller says. The software looks at hundreds of telltale characteristics of an essay, like whether the author double spaces after a period or writes with Oxford commas or semicolons. It all gets instantly compared against a student's other work, and, Loller says, suspicions can be confirmed — or alleviated — in minutes.

"At the end of the day, you get to a really good determination on whether the student wrote what they submitted or not," he says, "and you get it really quickly."

Coventry University in the U.K. has been testing out a beta version of the software, and Irene Glendinning, the school's academic manager for student experience, agrees that the software has the potential to give schools a leg up on cheating students. After the software is officially adopted, "we'll see a spike in the number of cases we find, and we'll have a very hard few years," she says. "But then the message will get through to students that we've got the tools now to find these things out." Then, Glendinning hopes, students might consider contract cheating to be as risky as plagiarizing.

In the meantime, schools are trying to spread the word that buying essays is risky in other ways as well.

Professor Ariely says that when he posed as a student and ordered papers from several companies, much of it was "gibberish" and about a third of it was actually plagiarized.

Even worse, when he complained to the company and demanded his money back, they resorted to blackmail. Still believing him to be a student, the company threatened to tell his school he was cheating. Others say companies have also attempted to shake down students for more money, threatening to rat them out if they didn't pay up.

The lesson, Ariely says, is "buyer beware."

But ultimately, experts say, many desperate students may not be deterred by the risks — whether from shady businesses or from new technology.

Bertram Gallant, of UC San Diego, says the right way to dissuade students from buying essays is to remind them why it's wrong.

"If we engage in a technological arms race with the students, we won't win," she says. "What are we going to do when Google glasses start to look like regular glasses and a student wears them into an exam? Are we going to tell them they can't wear their glasses because we're afraid they might be sending the exam out to someone else who is sending them back the answers?"

The solution, Bertram Gallant says, has to be about "creating a culture where integrity and ethics matter" and where education is valued more than grades. Only then will students believe that cheating on essays is only cheating themselves.

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Students who buy essays online are being ripped off, says exam watchdog

Students tempted to use essay writing services that claim to guarantee A-grade papers are more likely to receive shoddy work that would fail an A-level, as well as putting them at risk of being caught cheating, according to the exam regulator Ofqual .

An investigation by the watchdog found that online services failed to live up to their claims of high-quality writing and research, despite charging up to £220 for an essay. In many cases, essays were riddled with basic writing and composition errors, and received very poor or failing grades from independent examiners.

One essay “read like the work of an unengaged, untutored and floundering student”, according to an examiner, while another was damned for “Americanised versions, confused punctuation within sentences and errors of grammar and expression”.

Ofqual said that while it had no evidence that students were using the services to submit essays as their own, its chief regulator, Glenys Stacey, said: “Exam boards should also be doing everything they can to stop these essays being submitted into the system and they have a responsibility to ensure their malpractice monitoring systems are effective.”

Exam board representatives said they had seen few or no cases of commercially written essays being submitted.

The report’s authors concluded: “We would suggest that given the exceptionally low quality of the work commissioned, there is probably minimal damage inflicted. If anything, the fact that it is not possible to simply purchase a grade A GCE A-level essay is an exceptionally encouraging outcome.”

Ofqual’s investigation, conducted by the policy consultants London Economics, approached three organisations – Custom Essay, UK Essays and UK Essay Writing Services – and commissioned two essays from each, one a 2,000-word essay on the significance of the National Insurance Act of 1911 from an A-level history paper, and the other a 1,250-word essay on newspaper coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death from an A-level English language paper.

Only one of the six papers received a clear pass mark of B, while the other five received poor or ungraded marks from examiners, who had been briefed on the origin of the essays.

“These essays are poor quality. Anyone who buys them isn’t getting value for money. And more importantly, while there can be valid reasons for students buying these essays, such as essay practice or research, any attempt to pass this work off as the student’s own is cheating,” Stacey said.

The essay writing services defended their work saying they offered research services and not finished essays. “We are extremely disheartened and disappointed by the wholly inaccurate and presumptuous report published by Ofqual,” said Tony Eynon, chief executive of All Answers, which runs UK Essays.

Eynon said the London Economics report was “deeply flawed and inconsistent, using a prejudiced approach in marking the essays”, arguing that the examiners were tipped-off about the source of the essays.

The different services charged between £70 to £220, depending on length and subject. All six essays were delivered on time and only one showed signs of plagiarism. The use of American spellings suggested several of the authors were located outside the UK.

Reviewing the essays and their marks, the report said: “The assessment of the various coursework essays by external examiners was almost universally negative. Although in a number of cases, essays were reasonably well structured and used relatively sophisticated language, the almost universal ignorance of the scope of the work to be undertaken and associated criteria for assessment, combined with the utter lack of in-depth analysis, suggested that the essays were written by relatively competent writers ... who simply addressed whatever essay commissions present themselves.

“Overall, the commissioned essays were considered to be of poor quality and fell well short of what might be expected from a representative student at this stage of their academic career.”

The verdict

A panel of examiners looked at samples from essays provided by internet companies answering an English A-level essay question on Nelson Mandela’s death and the media.

Firm: Custom Essay

The narration of the death of Mandela was accompanied with numerous statins [sic] of his achievement and his requirement to all people. Every person or institution wanting to live the legacy left by Mandela would be moved by the text since it reminds each and every person of the importance of being willing to sacrifice for the sake of the world.

Examiner comment:

This essay is crudely structured, poorly written and almost entirely descriptive. The weaknesses in expression and the errors in punctuation, spelling and grammar would restrict it to a GCSE Grade D/E. It is nowhere near A-level standard in my judgment.

Grade: E or Ungraded

UK Essay Writing Services

The genre of the texts if largely informatory since it follows the newspaper reporting type of composition. They seek to make the reader know of a certain thing that has happened. They want to bring to the know how the events took place and what they resulted in. generally, it is about presenting news to the readers.

The expression is limited. There are a considerable number of stylistic infelicities and a fair number of grammatical errors.

In addressing such sensitive political material, these examples of media reporting have had to tread a slippery path between the opposing philosophies and interests of their varied readerships, and what is politically and socially acceptable.

Examiner’s comment:

The conclusion of the essay is entirely generic. Any reader of the final paragraph would be challenged to guess from which subject this writing has been taken. It could be history, politics, citizenship, economics... There is no language content here.

Grade: D or C

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Buying essays and other online academic papers is an increasingly acceptable action conducted by students all over the world. While buying essays online is safe, it can be hard trying to find a safe reputable essay writing service to get your assignments done. In some respects, it is a dangerous game. But with our writing service, it is never a risk as it is always a step closer to the best grades.

Students have various motivations pushing them to buy essays online, sometimes unsafely, as mentioned below:

The lack of time to do their student papers due to work overloads, some have too many assignments to cope with every week, and others desire to spend more hours with family members and new friends so choose to buy an essay online. All the more that they heard from friends is safe.

The lack of skills; as much as students are industrious, some assignments may need skills they have not yet mastered. The content should be characterized by sound argumentations, statistics, analytics, as well as other issues which define a great paper. It may be actually safer for their performance to buy an essay online instead of writing on their own.

The lack of quality in the sense that documents must be well-formatted and edited in accordance with all the academic requirements, and they must feature a great structure and writing style, but students struggle with all these, and many more reasons students seek the best essay writing website to buy essays online safe from.

Is it safe to buy essays online?

Whenever you are unsure about whether a professional writing service that you would like to buy essay online from is safe or not, below are some additional pointers which you need to look out for:

Social Media

Always search for the best online essay writers on social media before deciding that’s a safe buy and take a keen look at their profiles. Those that have a low number of followers have been inactive for some time, show no comments from buyers, or possess a high number of followers with very few audience interactions are signs of an unsafe site. Our website is on the top of the ladder writing a safe essay for college with many followers, active online services 24/7, and high buyer interaction.

Searching Online

If you have been searching online for some customer reviews of the safe website to buy your essays from, but hardly anything comes up in the search results, then it simply means that no one is talking about the site. The main question should be: why not? There is a spotlight that comes with being great, and the best essay writing services get to be spoken about, ours is a perfect example here.

We possess several features which aid to buyer’s consideration.

It is crucial for you to seek background information to ensure that you get to buy essay online safe by asking yourself several questions; are the essay writing services reputable, among many other questions. We deliver premium and quality content characterized by the following:

No pre-written essays

Whenever an essay writing service offers its buyers the opportunity of buying online academic writing which has already been written, it simply means that paper has already been used. You will then end up turning in work that isn’t original and tailored to your assignment, and at worst, be penalized for plagiarism. That’s unsafe.

We offer you to buy essays online safe without plagiarism, which are written from scratch, are full of creative ideas from our highly professional essay writers, and depict high levels of originality.

We offer a quality guarantee

Sites which do not provide quality guarantees are unsafe and a real gamble on the final product. Our essay writing service as a reputable company possesses a great team of writers who possess expertise on your topic. All the essays you buy online are tailored to your assignment, thus being safe and coming out just the way you want them.

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Buying cheap essays online requires one to have the peace of mind which comes with a polished business, and a strong presence as well as a simple ordering platform. We are a very professional and secure team from which you can buy safe essays for college.

How to Buy Essay Online Safely: Basic Tips for Self-Protection

When students decide to buy an essay, they should follow some steps to stay safe. There are many tips available, but let’s start with simple ones. If you’re about to place an order, make sure that you:

• Never share your real full name. Ghostwriters don’t need to know what your name is. Make one up or share your first name without the last (unless it’s unique). You should add identifying details to your paper only after you get it. Respectable essay writing services know these basics and won’t ask for personal data.
• Use the Internet safely. Just as a precaution, delete your browser history after you buy an essay online. Use VPN when contacting the writing service for changing your location.
• Never disclose info about your college. This is vital: don’t tell anyone where you study. Students who placed large orders often feel like writers are their best friends, but while it might be so, it’s better not to risk it.
• Avoid mentioning your city. There is no need to say where you live since an academic essay doesn’t depend on it in any way. Keep this info to yourself.

Of course, exceptions might happen. Sometimes students need to give their writers access to their college or Amazon accounts — for example, when they have dashboard assignments. But there are safety tips for such occasions, too: we’ll discuss them below.

Is It Illegal to Buy My Essay Online?

No, it’s not illegal to buy from essay writing services. Some regions are set on using  laws that forbid what they call “contract cheating” , but none of them is functional yet. People have every right to get anything written for them for money. Imagine that you want to give your friend a nice story about their favorite fictional couple for their birthday. You cannot write it yourself, so you buy it from a professional essay writer. This would be a harmless gift. While the ethics of buying essays for higher grades differ, the principle is the same: you are paying someone for personal service. What you do with it after that is up to you. No law can control it. Universities might disapprove of it, but there is nothing they can do to stop you.

Because of this, it’s clear that making academic essay writing companies illegal won’t be possible. People will always find loopholes to buy from an essay writing service. The question is, is it moral to do that? The answer depends on who you ask. The consensus is, the education system is imperfect if so many people are willing to buy academic assistance. Your value is going to be determined by the results you bring, so it doesn’t matter if you paid for an essay on a subject or topic you hate as a student.

Getting Caught Using Writing Services: Is It Possible?

Unless a person tells someone or ignores the safety precautions above, it’s impossible to be caught buying an essay. It doesn’t mean that you won't be suspected, though, so keep this in mind! If a person is an average student who doesn’t know English well, but then they suddenly submit a fully professional paper with excellent fluency, professors are going to suspect something. They might ask this student additional questions about an essay, and if they can’t answer them, suspicions will grow. But still, they won’t be able to prove anything for sure.

How Can I Buy Essays Without Getting Caught?

If you feel worried after being caught, don’t be! We’ve already shared some basic tips — they’ll keep your personal data private. But here’s a more detailed list of the things you should do for ensuring your safety.

• Pick a credible company. There are many essay writing services out there. Focus on those that provide legit services. Read reviews, do some research, look into firms’ policies & terms, and you’ll be able to figure out who should be trusted. Once again, don’t buy pre-written essays! Your paper should be unique and customized. Hire ghostwriters who’ll do their work from scratch.
• Ask a ghostwriter to adapt their writing to your level. If English isn’t your strong side, or you’re generally bad at in-depth analysis, tell a writer about it. Attach some samples of your writing if you want. Experts should be able to emulate it, so the paper would look just as if you wrote it. Writers can also make some minor errors for increasing believability.
• Read a completed paper. When you get an essay, unless you need to submit it now and not a second later, be sure you read it. Students who buy essays should know their content if they want to make it look like they wrote it.
• Have an explanation ready. If you ever get into a situation where a professor suspects you bought an essay, keep insisting that you wrote it. Tell them you asked a friend or a relative to proofread it or help you with some aspects. Make up more similar excuses, but never confess that you used writing services.

Is Ordering Essays Online Really Effective?

Oh yes, buying an essay is often very effective. As research shows, one in six students places at least one order during their studies. If doing this is so common, then it must work. As always, everything depends on what firm people hire and what kind of writer they end up with. A professional academic expert is someone who’s completed their higher education and wrote an endless number of papers while getting top grades for them. They know college requirements, they understand how to follow instructions, and they respect deadlines because they’ve been in your place.

That said, if you want good results, you need to be an active participant, too. Share as many relevant details about your homework as possible. Don’t forget to indicate formatting style, number of pages, & level of writing. If you know your grammar skills are weak, and you’re studying in college, perhaps you should indicate a “high school” level: it’ll cost you less, and it’ll fit your style better. Check messages from the writer and reply to them ASAP if you don’t want any delays. If you picked a trustworthy firm and did everything to help your writer understand your task, you’re almost guaranteed to be pleased.

Buying Essays Is More Common Than You Think

Students are used to the idea that sometimes they have to pay for their homework. What they don’t understand is that the business of ghostwriting is far more common and that it isn’t limited to education. Think about politicians, popular actors or musicians that win the awards, or even professors. Who creates their speeches? Who writes memos or answers they should give during interviews or public meetings? Some of them might do it personally, but that would be an exception. Most of them use the services of writing agencies; many even have the same writers who constantly help them.

Students do the same thing. When they don’t have enough time, hate the subject but are forced to take it, or feel too sick for doing homework, they contact professionals. So many people are doing it that this practice has become common. Safety is with numbers, so if you really need to buy essays, don’t hesitate. You are not the first, and you’ll definitely not be the last.

Which Companies Students Should Avoid When Buying an Essay Online

Are all academic writing firms legit? Unfortunately, no. There are many ways in which a student could get caught if they contacted the wrong firm or were inattentive. The latter is a solvable problem: keep a checklist like the one we offered above close when you’re ordering a paper. But how can you understand that the service is not legit? We prepared a list with red flags. Go through them all, and if you see one or more when searching for a firm, beware.

• Poor or frequently unavailable customer support. Respectable agencies have 24/7 online support. When people buy essays, they can face problems at any step, so operators must be available to deal with them. If only an email address is provided, if operators can’t speak English well, are too insistent, or just sound fake, it’s a bad sign.
• Hidden prices. Valid academic writing companies won’t hide their prices. People should be able to see how much they should pay right away instead of wasting their time and ordering free quotes that could take hours to arrive.
• Samples with poor quality. Most websites offering writing services have samples with essays on different topics. Check them before placing an order. Do they look fine? If there are evident mistakes, you shouldn’t trust this company. The same applies to overall website content: if it is flawed, you won’t find professionals here.
• Unclear revisions/refund policies. Every academic firm must carry responsibility for its mistakes. This is a solid rule. If writers didn’t follow clients’ demands, they must correct everything for free. If an essay was late, you deserve a refund. Make sure your company guarantees these things.

Tips for Choosing Safe Writing Companies

Now that you know about red flags, let’s look at the positive signs and tips. There are too many of them to list them all here, so we’re going to point out four major points. Here they are.

• Read reviews about legit academic essay services. Since the demand to buy an essay is enormous, teams of experts started reviewing different services and making lists with credible options. Try one of them. Look at what company is recommended, check its website, read info about it, and make a decision on this basis.
• Compare prices. Overly high prices mean that you’ll be deceived: writing work isn’t cheap, but it’s not terribly expensive either. Very low prices, on the other hand, are worrisome because real experts won’t work for free. Average prices fall somewhere between $12 and $18.
• Speak with a writer directly. Trustworthy essay services have the option that lets clients talk with their writers. This way, you can judge how professional your expert is by yourself.
• Start with something small. If this is your first time buying an essay, don’t start with large projects like dissertations. Ask for a 1-page order. If it’s good, it is likely that you can trust your company. If there are problems, then better seek similar services elsewhere — save your money by finding someone reliable.

EssaysDeluxe as Your Safe Platform to Buy an Essay Online

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• We feature in numerous independent reviews. Many independent platforms named EssaysDeluxe as one of the best writing firms in the US market.
• We offer affordable prices + discounts. Our prices start at $12.99 while our discounts reach 17%.
• Our clients can interact with writers directly. Writers and customers are encouraged to communicate directly to avoid potential problems.
• Our HR practices are strict and reliable. Only writers with proven higher education and writing experience become a part of our academic family.
• Easy navigation. Our website has an easy design. When you decide to fill an order form, our system will take you from stage to stage: you’ll face no difficulties figuring everything out.
• Guaranteed revisions & refunds. If we made a mistake in an order, we’ll be the ones to correct it. If we failed our client completely, we’ll return their money.
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Note that our service is not limited to just these benefits. We have many more. If you need a trustworthy academic helper, consider entrusting us with your order. We won’t let you down!

Seek Help and Buy an Essay When You Need It

Authorities and colleges might be wondering how to stop their students from buying essays, but unless our system of education changes, it is impossible to control this side of the business. So, if someone needs assistance for any reason, they have every right to order it. Follow the tips we’ve shared — they’ll help you make the right choice. Always read an essay you got and insist that you wrote it if your teacher has any questions. Read reviews, consider EssaysDeluxe for the role of your academic guide, and learn how to study without obsessing over doing everything on time!

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