Today’s students face enormous amounts of stress and pressure. They have to attend classes, study for tests and exams, do part time jobs, and finish numerous tasks and chores and what not. In the middle of all this stress and pressure thy have to do assignments, projects, reports and numerous papers. Because students are so busy so much of the time, they cannot seem to be able to do the essays given to them. This is when they consider buying custom essays. These are written by other professional writers for these students.
There has been much debate on this practice in recent times. Universities say that an essay is given to students for the following reasons. The first reason is to check how hardworking the student is. This is checked by the essay because essay writing requires a lot of effort to be out in to write the essay. The second quality that is checked is how well informed the student is. This is checked at the time of submission by seeing how much the student knows about his or her essay. This does not happen when students simply resort to buying custom essays. The final thing that is checked is the sincerity of the student. If a student does an essay by himself or herself then he or she is considered to be sincere to his or her work. Universities are generally against this practice of buying essays because they say lazy students take advantage of this and never improve. In addition to this, students who work hard might be tempted to become lazy and resort to buying essays. This is the reason universities are against this practice.
However an example to differentiate between using this practice as a means of cheating or as a study aid is the following. Suppose a faculty asks students a question and then asks them to get the answer the next day. Now most students will run a search for the answer on a search engine. Millions of answers will appear before the students. Now if a student was to read up a couple of the answers and then present an answer himself to the faculty then it is not cheating. However, if the student simply copies one of the answers and tries to pass it off as one of his own then the student is guilty of cheating.
Buying custom essays can, in fact be a positive thing. Referring to the example mentioned above we can look at things in this perspective. Referring to sources of information such as books, journals, reports, study materials etc is not bad in itself. If a student is simply reading them to get a better understanding of things and is then going to answer the question in his or her own language, then the student is sincere. The same is the case with using custom essays in a positive way. If a student buys one of these and instead of just submitting it, goes through the whole essay for information, then it is a good thing. The student will not be doing any wrong if he or she reads up on this bought essay to better his or her understanding of the topic and to clear his or her concepts. Following this if the student writes an essay in his or her own language, then as said before, he or she is doing no wrong.
On the other hand an example of a student misusing this facility is the following. Suppose a student for whatever reason, be it lack of time, lack of confidence or plain laziness decides to buy a customized essay. The student then proceeds to simply submit the essay as his or her own. The student does not bother to read the essay or even go through it but simply chooses to pass it off as his or her own. Then this practice is totally wrong and unforgivable, in which case the student should be held guilty without a doubt. As can be seen here there are always two ways to look at the use or misuse of custom essays.
Some people have another theory. They say it is best not to even bother about these customized essays. Their line of thoughts goes something like this. If the weight age of the final exam of the course is, say about half of the total credit. The practical work including assignments and practical experiments, account for a further 30% of the total credit. Then the remaining 20% is divided between essay writing, other assignments, class performance and participation, attendance etc. So these people believe that it is best not to bother with this debate about custom essays. Since it hardly has any weight age in the total credit of the course, then it is best left alone. And it is best for everyone if they leave it up to the student to decide how he or she goes about doing their own essay.
Sadly, however, things are not so simple. This is because this practice cannot be left to itself or cannot be left on the students to decide. This practice is not just about the marks. It is in fact a reflection of a person’s character and how the person reacts in certain situations. It is judgment of certain traits of a person’s character, which need to be observed to infer the true personality of the person.
Today the practice of buying custom essays is completely legal and not illegal as many believed it to be. Many people are against this decision and are completely against this practice because they believe it will only be misused. The people, who are for this practice, give the following examples. The best examples are medicines or medical drugs. Today, so many medicines are available to people over the counter at chemists without any prescription whatsoever. Now it is a known fact that if someone takes too large a dose of these medicines, then he or she is sure to die. What about the positive effects? If taken in moderation and as prescribes by doctors, these common medicines available today can cure anything from cold to headaches and so many other common ailments and life threatening diseases too. This is the same with buying or use of customized essays. Yes, it is a fact that they can be misused and that many students continue to do this. But the fact is that these can be extremely helpful to students. These can in fact be compared to the notes or model answers that faculty provides to students. There is always a possibility that students can copy from these but no one can deny the fact that these notes and answers are truly helpful to students. They help students to understand concepts and clear whatever doubts that they might be having regarding this.
In spite of whatever views that people might have regarding this practice, most universities and schools are against custom essays. They take the following precautions against this practice. For one thing, the topics that they provide are very specific. This is done so that students find it tough to buy an essay on a topic so specific. Along with this most schools and colleges have plagiarism detection methods so that they can easily find out if any submitted essay has been copied from any previous essay or paper. For this they have an extensive collection of essays and papers that they refer to and they also check on the internet.
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