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Hi everyone,
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome anyone with any service or standard issues to contact me directly at pr[at]ukessays.com.
Hopefully I can resolve any problems that you may have encountered using our service.
All I need is your order number!
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For those people unsure about using a company like ours, please visit our website and check our press page, or alternatively, call a member of our sales team or contact me directly on the aforementioned email address.
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Before I explain my problem with the service uk essays offer, I would like to comment on the previous posts. I am a student who has purchased research from uk essays. I know what skeptics muct be thinking;he is a cheat. However, I am not intending to purchase research to hand it in as my own work. I am merely using the research as a guideline/framework to check if my coursework has good structure and if I have missed any major points. If I were to use any quote from the research, I would be sure to reference it becuase I do not want to take the risk of plagiarising and getting kicked out of University. I prefer the satisfaction of knowing that my degree was honestly earnt through hard work.
My University is not prepared to give me any pointers on my work and I feel left in the dark.
I feel that there is a genuine, honest use of such companies who offer research to customers. They make it clear that the purpose of their service is not to encourage plagiarism. In any case, even if a student was to hand work as their own, tutors would be able to see if the writing style matches up with what the student has previously handed in; they would be able to see gaps in the writing style.
Back to my main point. I was told my research would be with me on frday 16th March before 12am. It didn't arrive. All I got was an amendments form and no research. I rang uk essays 9am sharp the next morning and explained this to the assistant. (who was very helpful and polite.) I was told various things after numerous phone calls.
First, I was told the work was completed on time yet it was a corrupt file that was sent. Then I was told it would be resent in an hour but the system was down. Then I was told the researcher who had completed the work was contacted to re-send it and would send it promptly "when they got home in an hour." I was always the one calling to check for updates on the matter.
I am yet to receive my work. I do not know if there was a genuine technical error although I have requested proof of the expert sending the completed work before 12am on friday otherwise I would hope that uk essays will honour their guarantee of giving my money back and sending the work which I have been running after. I have paid over £1000 and it must be appreciated that for this amount of money, a prompt service is essential. I can't help but feel that I am being fobbed off with excuse after excuse. I would like to know why my research was not sent to me after I was told it would be done so.
Thanks for your mail, and well done for bringing this topic to the forum.
Firstly, I feel we must clarify an important fact for the readership.
You write, "We do not offer custom/bespoke essays as we think they are without exception for unethical use."
For everyone, Coursework.info indeed operated a custom writing service like ukessays.com circa 2004 that failed due to the success of my company.
Interesting that they now denounce our industry. : ) Chris, if I’ve made a mistake and you were not in charge of the service at that time please state so for clarification’s sake, we’ll come on to that point later though.
You go on to state that you are working with the QCA and the Plagiarism Advisory Service to promote ethical practice in this industry - I congratulate you.
We are working with MP's and the Press to promote change in the industry and have been doing so for almost 4 years. That’s why the UK essay industry is both the highest standard and most ethical in the world. I might add that Universities have done very little of the same work to bring about change.
Yet, we’ve never been invited to any Conference on plagiarism, let alone an open discussion.
If you'd like to pass on my website to the relevant bodies you mention, please do so, they've made no effort to contact me, despite several appeals to them and the Universities in the Press. Not exactly a proactive approach by them you might say.
The key here is that just like you, Universities fail to realise how vast the honest use of our service is. Your side shares both a general mistrust of human nature and a misreading of students intentions that are simply unfounded. Again on that note Chris, you or the Universities don’t trust our industry or it’s leaders and it’s that approach that’s only compounding the problem.
I’m sure that you’re reading this with a cynical eye as you go.
I’m not sure why, if I wanted to debase the academic system I’d have done it by now, and I wouldn’t just have 2 super cars.
I ‘d have 3 Ferraris, 6 Lamborghinis and a Bugatti Veyron for special occasions.
Try ringing ukessays.com and telling us you want to use an essay to cheat with and see what you’re told, indeed you’re likely to get a better lecture on plagiarism that any University could give you. As I’ve said before I turn away thousands of pounds a week due to my ethics, so I can’t see how they can be in question.
By the way, I’m sure you realise that you or anyone else couldn’t stop us encouraging students to hand in work or to sell the copyright if we wanted, but we don’t – maybe that tells you something?
It’s also one of the reasons why we’re pushing for regulation.
The essay industry is not like it was 5 years ago, it’s run by a group of legitimate, successful and powerful businessmen with the foresight and talent to challenge the current academic system and norms by providing the most powerful educational solution in the history of this country.
We of course realise there is dishonest use of custom essays and we want to address that, but, it pales in insignificance to the benefits our service provides to the honest majority. That’s why I set up the service and continue to be proud to put my name to it.
If my service was around when I was studying I’d have used it properly as do thousands of others today.
For you to tell me or the many other honest users otherwise is incredibly patronising and only serves to insult everybody’s intelligence.
So how to ensure this legitimate use? The key to safe use is cooperation, increased input from all parties and finding middle ground between both sides - which those at your (broad) side of the table fail to comprehend.
Right now the essay industry is in our control and nobody else’s, and I’m not sure how that benefits the Universities or the academic system in any way whatsoever, but they seem to be happy with it that way.
Surely, they’d like an element of control and input as well – which I and some other industry leaders are willing to give under the right conditions.
The current polices of Universities are failing, as is their battle against plagiarism, and it's a battle that they will never win without the help of myself and the other custom essay industry leaders.
You also believe the Coursework Library industry is being tarnished by ukessays.com and our industry. Well, I of course disagree with you. There's little difference to using one of our essays to one of those that has been written by another student. After all Chris, both services provide essays that have been written by other people and are being used by a third party to help them learn. Indeed one of our essays could even turn up on your database – then does it become not cheating to use it?
Whose more likely to succeed, to be educated about the question, to gain better marks? Someone without a qualified academic’s opinion or a collection of essays like those from Coursework.info or someone without? The answer is obvious.
A major difference is that our work is focused to a student’s exact piece unlike those that you offer, and that are pieces are written by qualified academics and quality checked for accuracy and a high academic standard, again unlike yours.
So our service is of course far more useful, but far more open to abuse too.
The key Chris is how it's used, the act or actus reus of buying or reading an essay isn't plagiarism, it's the mens rea that counts, how its it used and with what intention.
That's why we are making steps to ensure the honest use of our service.
Again, to assert that there is no honest use of our service, I know you are aware is absolute nonsense, and is as short sighted as stating that there is no honest use of your service.
I like what you do and you’ve convinced me of some of the benefits, so I’m going to come and take some of your market share as well and compete with you.
We’ll do what Coursework.info do, but a little better. After all, it’s the students that win from both our services, so I know you won’t mind ; )
You then go on to ask a final specific question about Plagiarism “Dection” Software, by which I believe you mean Plagiarism Detection Software.
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"If your essays are genuinely not intended to be used for cheating, then will you agree to submit them all to TurnItIn (the Plagiarism Dection Software provided to UK academic institutions by the Plagiarism Advisory Service) at the moment in time that they are also sent to your clients, and publicise this on your website?"
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I'll do better than that for you Chris.
Soon we'll be launching a service similar to TurnItIn, but with one major difference. Instead of making money from the often unwitting and unwilling surrendering of IP rights by students in return for nothing but adding to TurnItIn’s millions of dollars a year profit we'll be giving them a fair deal and something in return for submitting their work to our database.
Through this the database of essays we'll collect will grow substantially throughout the next year.
Given your valid concerns over plagiarism we'll be asking you to submit all your work to the database as well, but don’t worry, if you don’t, the users that submitted their work to you originally will do soon.
If you’re asking me to submit the work of ukessays.com to our new TurnItIn like service or TurnItIn then the answer is no - we won’t. Not how it stands. Not until Universities, in their business capacity, acknowledge and respect my business, accept that their as an honest use for our service, that it’s use does not constitute plagiarism if used properly, and promote us as the legitimate research aid to students.
I’ve given more than enough ground to them already with no movement in return.
It’s simple – whoever wrote the information, whatever the information is about, whoever the information was written for, and wherever that information is found, students have aright to access it, buy it (if needs be), read it, learn from it and reference it.
Past model answers, custom essays, essay databases, journals, textbooks and Q and A books all come within that scope – reading the thoughts of others, learning and then constructing your own thoughts and arguments has been at the heart of academic since time immemorial and can’t be stopped - let’s just call it progress. You should know that being part of it yourself.
Once The Universities admit that they’re stance is fundamentally wrong and support my business, then I’ll go on to offer more support to their business then I already do. We’ll work at adding to our already extensive measures to prevent the dishonest minority from using our service further and cooperate with them, from which we’ll all benefit.
After all they’re businesses more than ever nowadays, yet is seems they don’t want to partner with us but rather try and work against us, so until then, if there is some unethical use that manages to slip through undetected I’ll consider it part payment for the thousands of honest users they deter every year (through their misinformation) from using our service and gaining quite lawful, legitimate and ethical help.
Not sure really that this is the place for this discussion, but...
The view on such sites is generally not good I'm afraid. You will not find any academic/government authority who is anything but "up in arms" by people paying others to do their work for them.
If he needs direction/clarity, it is perfectly legitimate to go to a Coursework Library where he can learn from from a wide range of other people's work. He just needs to be sure then that he references properly any work that he uses.
More information on telling good from bad in this arena can be found at http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/e/page.cgi?p=plagiarism
I recently found out my son has been using essayagency.com for some time as you can imaging I am little worried can anybody offer some advise on the legality, although the work, he has paid for seams to be of an OK standard I have issues with the morality and law etc please advise.
I am the MD of Acumen PI who owns Coursework.Info and a number of other Coursework Libraries. We do not offer custom/bespoke essays as we think they are without exception for unethical use.
We are working with the QCA and the Plagiarism Advisory Service to promote ethical practice in this industry. If your business is ethical, then why not do the same?
We believe the Coursework Library industry is being tarnished by the activities of your Ghost Writing Industry and wish to make clear the difference between the two.
If you wish to read more about the good practices that should be adopted, then please see http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/e/page.cgi?p=plagiarism
However, let me ask one very specific question. If your essays are genuinely not intended to be used for cheating, then will you agree to submit them all to TurnItIn (the Plagiarism Dection Software provided to UK academic institutions by the Plagiarism Advisory Service) at the moment in time that they are also sent to your clients, and publicise this on your website?
If not, then I think your decision speaks for itself.
Hi Barclay! Really enjoyed the article in the Guardian on Saturday. Here are some particularly choice quotes:
"The multimillion-pound trade in internet cheating which sees thousands of students hand over money in return for bespoke essays is to be investigated by a committee of MPs, it has emerged.
The move comes as the Guardian unveils the scale of the market in online plagiarism, estimated to be worth £200m, which has seen a boom in the number of companies offering tailored essays in the last 12 months.
The owner of one online organisation says he employs 3,500 specialist writers who have written more than 15,000 essays for students wanting a leg-up in university courses. The company made £90,000 in one week in May and the owner has a Ferrari and a Lamborghini in his garage."
...and who is the owner of this company? One Barclay Littlewood!
"The scale of the problem, which affects schools and universities, was underlined last night when vice-chancellors announced they will hold a plagiarism summit in October to devise ways of stemming the online trade."
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"Universities and exam watchdogs say the companies are encouraging people to cheat and undermining the UK's academic record."
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"Vice-chancellors, university managers and senior academics were expected to attend the conference in the autumn, which would look at all aspects of online essays. "The suggestion that these are to be used by students as 'guides' is both absurd and dishonest. Universities say it is irresponsible, risks undermining the quality of a UK higher education degree and should be tackled more forcefully." "
So, it's not just me that doesn't entirely approve of your activities, is it?
If you’ll forgive my bluntness for a moment, I think it's quite plain to see who is trying to be self-righteous here.
It never ceases to maze me now critics such as yourself can wistfully hypothesise about my aims within this industry and what my company does without seeking out and understanding the true facts first.
You seem quite content on tarring all customers and essay companies with the same brush.
Lecturer, if you had taken the time to research our company and our position you would know that we don't encourage cheating.
This is not just 'pretty talk' as you assert.
I am sorry if this alleviates you of another 'bad guy' to try and lampoon, but please, if you don’t believe me, try and call our company on 0845 066 7883 and tell them you want to hand in one of our essays and see the response you get.
We turn away potential customers and money everyday to try and prevent the abuse of our service
We are one of the only companies that are pushing for UK law to make it illegal to sell essays to cheating customers or to sell any work not protected by copyright.
Look around and I don’t think you’ll see many other essay companies trying to promote and protect the interests of honest students and their use of our industry.
A far cry from the money grabbing company that you imply.
On that note, I am not sure you are in any position to take your self perceived moral high ground with the current situation over lecturers' pay – a choice between accepting a 12.5% pay rise or seeing thousands of students miss their exams?
Please, do assess the attitude of your peers first, before attempting to engage us in such a debate. Whilst you’re there you may also want to look into how Universities bring foreign students for £10,000 p/a, a vast proportion of whom can hardly speak or written English. Despite their institutional status, they're a business like any other and at times, if you look hard enough, you’ll see that today, more than ever.
To any students reading this - only use us if you are going to do so for honest purposes and if it doesn’t infringe your university guidelines - if in doubt check first.
Tens of thousands of honest, and often very talented students, have used us in the past 3 years to improve their grades.
If you want to use to cheat don’t - we don’t want your custom.
We embrace and support the academic system, in a way that has never been possible before. Everything that I have written here and the fact that we have many teachers and lecturers as well as other professionals working for us is testimony to that. We have even requested an open dialogue with Universities on national radio about the industry and regulation – not one response was received. Interesting behaviour from a group that often criticises us for not having students’ best interests at heart.
Our sole aim is to assist any honest student with the creation of a good piece of work. A student with one of our pieces will be better educated about how to tackle the piece than one without – fact.
In our opinion, there's nothing wrong with using us if you do so honestly, and please don’t be put off by the twoddle from people like the Lecturer - which only serves to discourage the honest use of our service and attract the cheats to our industry.
Finally, the only past of the Lecturer’s post really worth reading
“Students, earn your degree honestly - at least you'll learn something.”
I echo those sentiments – just don’t be afraid to get legitimate help if you need it.
I love the way that Barclay Littlewood is getting self-righteous about his company. Students - don't be fooled by pretty talk about 'research'. If you use these sites, you're cheating. No two ways about it. And Mr Littlewood is encouraging you to and profiting from it. It's shameful. Students, earn your degree honestly - at least you'll learn something.
I'm now in my third year at uni and have bought several essays off this company. Never had a problem. All essays have been delivered on-time and to a good standard. It's obvious that the blagger posting was trying to promote another company.
and The Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/28/ngrad28.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/28/ixhome.html
This post is one of many that we have evidence has been posted by a rival company.
To the poster: If you are actually a real researcher, I find it somewhat telling that we have only record of a "Joshua" on our books and he has been paid in full for all 7 pieces - the last of which was completed in August 2004.
I nor my HR manager have had any mails or phone calls on this matter.
If this is a legitimate post please contact me immediately at feedback@academicnanswers.co.uk with your full name and the pieces in question.
If, as I expect you are the competitor that has been placing these posts, don't worry about going undetected, we've requested the IP address of your post.
I will keep all aware of further events as they unfold.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome anyone with any service or standard issues to contact me directly at pr[at]ukessays.com.
Hopefully I can resolve any problems that you may have encountered using our service.
All I need is your order number!
We always strive to remain the UK's leading custom essay company and we welcome any suggestions that you may have.
For those people unsure about using a company like ours, please visit our website and check our press page, or alternatively, call a member of our sales team or contact me directly on the aforementioned email address.
My warmest regards to customer past, present and future,
Jed Hallam
pr[at]ukessays.com
My University is not prepared to give me any pointers on my work and I feel left in the dark.
I feel that there is a genuine, honest use of such companies who offer research to customers. They make it clear that the purpose of their service is not to encourage plagiarism. In any case, even if a student was to hand work as their own, tutors would be able to see if the writing style matches up with what the student has previously handed in; they would be able to see gaps in the writing style.
Back to my main point. I was told my research would be with me on frday 16th March before 12am. It didn't arrive. All I got was an amendments form and no research. I rang uk essays 9am sharp the next morning and explained this to the assistant. (who was very helpful and polite.) I was told various things after numerous phone calls.
First, I was told the work was completed on time yet it was a corrupt file that was sent. Then I was told it would be resent in an hour but the system was down. Then I was told the researcher who had completed the work was contacted to re-send it and would send it promptly "when they got home in an hour." I was always the one calling to check for updates on the matter.
I am yet to receive my work. I do not know if there was a genuine technical error although I have requested proof of the expert sending the completed work before 12am on friday otherwise I would hope that uk essays will honour their guarantee of giving my money back and sending the work which I have been running after. I have paid over £1000 and it must be appreciated that for this amount of money, a prompt service is essential. I can't help but feel that I am being fobbed off with excuse after excuse. I would like to know why my research was not sent to me after I was told it would be done so.
Dharmesh
dharmesh at 18th Mar 2007, 03:28PM
Thanks for your mail, and well done for bringing this topic to the forum.
Firstly, I feel we must clarify an important fact for the readership.
You write, "We do not offer custom/bespoke essays as we think they are without exception for unethical use."
For everyone, Coursework.info indeed operated a custom writing service like ukessays.com circa 2004 that failed due to the success of my company.
Interesting that they now denounce our industry. : ) Chris, if I’ve made a mistake and you were not in charge of the service at that time please state so for clarification’s sake, we’ll come on to that point later though.
You go on to state that you are working with the QCA and the Plagiarism Advisory Service to promote ethical practice in this industry - I congratulate you.
We are working with MP's and the Press to promote change in the industry and have been doing so for almost 4 years. That’s why the UK essay industry is both the highest standard and most ethical in the world. I might add that Universities have done very little of the same work to bring about change.
Yet, we’ve never been invited to any Conference on plagiarism, let alone an open discussion.
If you'd like to pass on my website to the relevant bodies you mention, please do so, they've made no effort to contact me, despite several appeals to them and the Universities in the Press. Not exactly a proactive approach by them you might say.
The key here is that just like you, Universities fail to realise how vast the honest use of our service is. Your side shares both a general mistrust of human nature and a misreading of students intentions that are simply unfounded. Again on that note Chris, you or the Universities don’t trust our industry or it’s leaders and it’s that approach that’s only compounding the problem.
I’m sure that you’re reading this with a cynical eye as you go.
I’m not sure why, if I wanted to debase the academic system I’d have done it by now, and I wouldn’t just have 2 super cars.
I ‘d have 3 Ferraris, 6 Lamborghinis and a Bugatti Veyron for special occasions.
Try ringing ukessays.com and telling us you want to use an essay to cheat with and see what you’re told, indeed you’re likely to get a better lecture on plagiarism that any University could give you. As I’ve said before I turn away thousands of pounds a week due to my ethics, so I can’t see how they can be in question.
By the way, I’m sure you realise that you or anyone else couldn’t stop us encouraging students to hand in work or to sell the copyright if we wanted, but we don’t – maybe that tells you something?
It’s also one of the reasons why we’re pushing for regulation.
The essay industry is not like it was 5 years ago, it’s run by a group of legitimate, successful and powerful businessmen with the foresight and talent to challenge the current academic system and norms by providing the most powerful educational solution in the history of this country.
We of course realise there is dishonest use of custom essays and we want to address that, but, it pales in insignificance to the benefits our service provides to the honest majority. That’s why I set up the service and continue to be proud to put my name to it.
If my service was around when I was studying I’d have used it properly as do thousands of others today.
For you to tell me or the many other honest users otherwise is incredibly patronising and only serves to insult everybody’s intelligence.
So how to ensure this legitimate use? The key to safe use is cooperation, increased input from all parties and finding middle ground between both sides - which those at your (broad) side of the table fail to comprehend.
Right now the essay industry is in our control and nobody else’s, and I’m not sure how that benefits the Universities or the academic system in any way whatsoever, but they seem to be happy with it that way.
Surely, they’d like an element of control and input as well – which I and some other industry leaders are willing to give under the right conditions.
The current polices of Universities are failing, as is their battle against plagiarism, and it's a battle that they will never win without the help of myself and the other custom essay industry leaders.
You also believe the Coursework Library industry is being tarnished by ukessays.com and our industry. Well, I of course disagree with you. There's little difference to using one of our essays to one of those that has been written by another student. After all Chris, both services provide essays that have been written by other people and are being used by a third party to help them learn. Indeed one of our essays could even turn up on your database – then does it become not cheating to use it?
Whose more likely to succeed, to be educated about the question, to gain better marks? Someone without a qualified academic’s opinion or a collection of essays like those from Coursework.info or someone without? The answer is obvious.
A major difference is that our work is focused to a student’s exact piece unlike those that you offer, and that are pieces are written by qualified academics and quality checked for accuracy and a high academic standard, again unlike yours.
So our service is of course far more useful, but far more open to abuse too.
The key Chris is how it's used, the act or actus reus of buying or reading an essay isn't plagiarism, it's the mens rea that counts, how its it used and with what intention.
That's why we are making steps to ensure the honest use of our service.
Again, to assert that there is no honest use of our service, I know you are aware is absolute nonsense, and is as short sighted as stating that there is no honest use of your service.
I like what you do and you’ve convinced me of some of the benefits, so I’m going to come and take some of your market share as well and compete with you.
We’ll do what Coursework.info do, but a little better. After all, it’s the students that win from both our services, so I know you won’t mind ; )
You then go on to ask a final specific question about Plagiarism “Dection” Software, by which I believe you mean Plagiarism Detection Software.
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"If your essays are genuinely not intended to be used for cheating, then will you agree to submit them all to TurnItIn (the Plagiarism Dection Software provided to UK academic institutions by the Plagiarism Advisory Service) at the moment in time that they are also sent to your clients, and publicise this on your website?"
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I'll do better than that for you Chris.
Soon we'll be launching a service similar to TurnItIn, but with one major difference. Instead of making money from the often unwitting and unwilling surrendering of IP rights by students in return for nothing but adding to TurnItIn’s millions of dollars a year profit we'll be giving them a fair deal and something in return for submitting their work to our database.
Through this the database of essays we'll collect will grow substantially throughout the next year.
Given your valid concerns over plagiarism we'll be asking you to submit all your work to the database as well, but don’t worry, if you don’t, the users that submitted their work to you originally will do soon.
If you’re asking me to submit the work of ukessays.com to our new TurnItIn like service or TurnItIn then the answer is no - we won’t. Not how it stands. Not until Universities, in their business capacity, acknowledge and respect my business, accept that their as an honest use for our service, that it’s use does not constitute plagiarism if used properly, and promote us as the legitimate research aid to students.
I’ve given more than enough ground to them already with no movement in return.
It’s simple – whoever wrote the information, whatever the information is about, whoever the information was written for, and wherever that information is found, students have aright to access it, buy it (if needs be), read it, learn from it and reference it.
Past model answers, custom essays, essay databases, journals, textbooks and Q and A books all come within that scope – reading the thoughts of others, learning and then constructing your own thoughts and arguments has been at the heart of academic since time immemorial and can’t be stopped - let’s just call it progress. You should know that being part of it yourself.
Once The Universities admit that they’re stance is fundamentally wrong and support my business, then I’ll go on to offer more support to their business then I already do. We’ll work at adding to our already extensive measures to prevent the dishonest minority from using our service further and cooperate with them, from which we’ll all benefit.
After all they’re businesses more than ever nowadays, yet is seems they don’t want to partner with us but rather try and work against us, so until then, if there is some unethical use that manages to slip through undetected I’ll consider it part payment for the thousands of honest users they deter every year (through their misinformation) from using our service and gaining quite lawful, legitimate and ethical help.
Regards,
Barclay Littlewood
Director
Academic Answers Ltd.
The view on such sites is generally not good I'm afraid. You will not find any academic/government authority who is anything but "up in arms" by people paying others to do their work for them.
If he needs direction/clarity, it is perfectly legitimate to go to a Coursework Library where he can learn from from a wide range of other people's work. He just needs to be sure then that he references properly any work that he uses.
More information on telling good from bad in this arena can be found at http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/e/page.cgi?p=plagiarism
I hope that helps.
We are working with the QCA and the Plagiarism Advisory Service to promote ethical practice in this industry. If your business is ethical, then why not do the same?
We believe the Coursework Library industry is being tarnished by the activities of your Ghost Writing Industry and wish to make clear the difference between the two.
If you wish to read more about the good practices that should be adopted, then please see http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/e/page.cgi?p=plagiarism
However, let me ask one very specific question. If your essays are genuinely not intended to be used for cheating, then will you agree to submit them all to TurnItIn (the Plagiarism Dection Software provided to UK academic institutions by the Plagiarism Advisory Service) at the moment in time that they are also sent to your clients, and publicise this on your website?
If not, then I think your decision speaks for itself.
Many thanks,
Chris Newson
Managing Director
Acumen PI
"The multimillion-pound trade in internet cheating which sees thousands of students hand over money in return for bespoke essays is to be investigated by a committee of MPs, it has emerged.
The move comes as the Guardian unveils the scale of the market in online plagiarism, estimated to be worth £200m, which has seen a boom in the number of companies offering tailored essays in the last 12 months.
The owner of one online organisation says he employs 3,500 specialist writers who have written more than 15,000 essays for students wanting a leg-up in university courses. The company made £90,000 in one week in May and the owner has a Ferrari and a Lamborghini in his garage."
...and who is the owner of this company? One Barclay Littlewood!
"The scale of the problem, which affects schools and universities, was underlined last night when vice-chancellors announced they will hold a plagiarism summit in October to devise ways of stemming the online trade."
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"Universities and exam watchdogs say the companies are encouraging people to cheat and undermining the UK's academic record."
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"Vice-chancellors, university managers and senior academics were expected to attend the conference in the autumn, which would look at all aspects of online essays. "The suggestion that these are to be used by students as 'guides' is both absurd and dishonest. Universities say it is irresponsible, risks undermining the quality of a UK higher education degree and should be tackled more forcefully." "
So, it's not just me that doesn't entirely approve of your activities, is it?
Over to you, mate!
If you’ll forgive my bluntness for a moment, I think it's quite plain to see who is trying to be self-righteous here.
It never ceases to maze me now critics such as yourself can wistfully hypothesise about my aims within this industry and what my company does without seeking out and understanding the true facts first.
You seem quite content on tarring all customers and essay companies with the same brush.
Lecturer, if you had taken the time to research our company and our position you would know that we don't encourage cheating.
This is not just 'pretty talk' as you assert.
I am sorry if this alleviates you of another 'bad guy' to try and lampoon, but please, if you don’t believe me, try and call our company on 0845 066 7883 and tell them you want to hand in one of our essays and see the response you get.
We turn away potential customers and money everyday to try and prevent the abuse of our service
We are one of the only companies that are pushing for UK law to make it illegal to sell essays to cheating customers or to sell any work not protected by copyright.
Look around and I don’t think you’ll see many other essay companies trying to promote and protect the interests of honest students and their use of our industry.
A far cry from the money grabbing company that you imply.
On that note, I am not sure you are in any position to take your self perceived moral high ground with the current situation over lecturers' pay – a choice between accepting a 12.5% pay rise or seeing thousands of students miss their exams?
Please, do assess the attitude of your peers first, before attempting to engage us in such a debate. Whilst you’re there you may also want to look into how Universities bring foreign students for £10,000 p/a, a vast proportion of whom can hardly speak or written English. Despite their institutional status, they're a business like any other and at times, if you look hard enough, you’ll see that today, more than ever.
To any students reading this - only use us if you are going to do so for honest purposes and if it doesn’t infringe your university guidelines - if in doubt check first.
Tens of thousands of honest, and often very talented students, have used us in the past 3 years to improve their grades.
If you want to use to cheat don’t - we don’t want your custom.
We embrace and support the academic system, in a way that has never been possible before. Everything that I have written here and the fact that we have many teachers and lecturers as well as other professionals working for us is testimony to that. We have even requested an open dialogue with Universities on national radio about the industry and regulation – not one response was received. Interesting behaviour from a group that often criticises us for not having students’ best interests at heart.
Our sole aim is to assist any honest student with the creation of a good piece of work. A student with one of our pieces will be better educated about how to tackle the piece than one without – fact.
In our opinion, there's nothing wrong with using us if you do so honestly, and please don’t be put off by the twoddle from people like the Lecturer - which only serves to discourage the honest use of our service and attract the cheats to our industry.
Finally, the only past of the Lecturer’s post really worth reading
“Students, earn your degree honestly - at least you'll learn something.”
I echo those sentiments – just don’t be afraid to get legitimate help if you need it.
Kind regards,
Barclay Littlewood
Director
Academic Answers Ltd.
I am the director of Academic Answers Ltd, the company that owns the site in question.
We have had hundreds of researchers and pay them all on time.
We are well documented in the UK Press - see The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3561-760509,00.html
and The Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/28/ngrad28.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/28/ixhome.html
This post is one of many that we have evidence has been posted by a rival company.
To the poster: If you are actually a real researcher, I find it somewhat telling that we have only record of a "Joshua" on our books and he has been paid in full for all 7 pieces - the last of which was completed in August 2004.
I nor my HR manager have had any mails or phone calls on this matter.
If this is a legitimate post please contact me immediately at feedback@academicnanswers.co.uk with your full name and the pieces in question.
If, as I expect you are the competitor that has been placing these posts, don't worry about going undetected, we've requested the IP address of your post.
I will keep all aware of further events as they unfold.
Kind regards,
Barclay Littlewood
Director
Academic Answers
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