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But, the paper would have to be original.. Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay?

But, the paper would have to be original.. Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay? Nuts. ...and yeah, the results of the plagiarism service were a bit soft, but I think it would notice and annotate if things were in quotations, or likely to be common enough to not be an issue. In fact, I think her department had a general 'score' that they'd considered serious enough to consider cheating, and a sentence or two lifted from the interwebs would get you a marked down grade.

Retric 16y ago
It's vary easy to accidentally lift a sentence or idea if you do enough research and write something of length. Dropping a full grade for a short essay is reasonable but if you handing in 60+ pages it's rather harsh IMO.
- dvdhsu 16y ago
  High school essays are generally not 60 pages.
- famousactress 16y ago
  Oh yeah, sorry I should have been more specific.. for one, the papers are much shorter than that (this is high school).. also, when I said their grade was marked down, I just meant that they were penalized.. I don't know by how much.
bermanoid 16y ago
Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay? It might be difficult, but that's not even the whole problem. Worse is that parents, who do have the money, will sometimes fund their students efforts to cheat (or even do it behind their backs). I've spent a long time as a tutor (SAT, GRE, subject tests, and most of the math/science courses at high school and college level) in a relatively affluent town, and I've been approached on a few occasions by parents that wanted me to help their kids cheat in various ways (including asking me to pose as their student and take the SAT for them, write college essays, do take home tests and homework assignments, etc.). It's by no means common; I've had hundreds of students and only a small handful of requests like this. But it does happen - never underestimate what some rich parents will do to buy their children success in spite of academic laziness!
Dove 16y ago
Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay? Nuts. Oh, absolutely. I see 400-level programming and engineering homework assignments crop up on vworker from time to time; they go for about $15. And copywriting is way cheaper than that. High school english papers are what, five paragraphs? People pay about $1.50 for comparable web copy on Mechanical Turk.

Retric 16y ago

It's vary easy to accidentally lift a sentence or idea if you do enough research and write something of length. Dropping a full grade for a short essay is reasonable but if you handing in 60+ pages it's rather harsh IMO.

dvdhsu 16y ago
High school essays are generally not 60 pages.
famousactress 16y ago
Oh yeah, sorry I should have been more specific.. for one, the papers are much shorter than that (this is high school).. also, when I said their grade was marked down, I just meant that they were penalized.. I don't know by how much.

bermanoid 16y ago

Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay? It might be difficult, but that's not even the whole problem. Worse is that parents, who do have the money, will sometimes fund their students efforts to cheat (or even do it behind their backs). I've spent a long time as a tutor (SAT, GRE, subject tests, and most of the math/science courses at high school and college level) in a relatively affluent town, and I've been approached on a few occasions by parents that wanted me to help their kids cheat in various ways (including asking me to pose as their student and take the SAT for them, write college essays, do take home tests and homework assignments, etc.). It's by no means common; I've had hundreds of students and only a small handful of requests like this. But it does happen - never underestimate what some rich parents will do to buy their children success in spite of academic laziness!

Dove 16y ago

Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay? Nuts. Oh, absolutely. I see 400-level programming and engineering homework assignments crop up on vworker from time to time; they go for about $15. And copywriting is way cheaper than that. High school english papers are what, five paragraphs? People pay about $1.50 for comparable web copy on Mechanical Turk.