Is it Plagiarizing if....?
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If I were to sell people my essays?
I think I should be able to sell people my essays. I write really good essays (when I write them in the right state of mind!), and I have a lot of them because I was in a lot of classes that wrote a lot of essays a lot. I've always gotten As on my papers (except for the one I wrote when I was technically "drunk"--but that's a story for later!--and I still got a B+ on it) and other people deserve to get As on their papers, and I deserve to get moneys for all those papeeeerrrrrssss.....
O.Q
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Plagiarizing only if caught IMO. Some teachers/professors have programs online that can tell if it is plagiarized. I would sell the essays with that disclosure. That way you get paid while its a possibility they get a F. I guss it's more of a question of ethics.
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You said it yourself, others deserve to gets As on "their" essays, not on yours.
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Allowing others to pass off your work as their own will only serve to erode the value of your own education. If many students get their diplomas or degrees without actually having the knowledge required to graduate you will have a certain percentage in any given profession who don't know what they are doing. This lowers the status for everyone within that field of work, or for everyone who graduated from a certain college/university.
I've worked hard for my degree. It has cost a lot of money. I don't want my potential employer to think that I may be that slacker who dished out €50 for a paper I didn't feel like writing. I want my degree to have value, my work and dilligence to pay off in the end. Don't you want the same? -
I wouldn't be the one using someone else's work, someone else would be using my work.
It all hit me yesterday, when I was taking my Bio exam. I was really paranoid that the guy behind me was cheating off me (he most likely wasn't) so I was trying to sneakily cover my answers.... and then I'm like, Why bother? I'm a nice person; I don't want to be a jerk if you're set on cheating, because guess what? LIFE will do that for me!!! HAHA!!! >:D
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SeñoritaMafioso wrote:
Not at all, people do it to make money. That's exactly what newspaper writers do. It's only plagiarizing if you sell them to students to turn in as their own assignment. But not if you sold them for people to have an interesting read, or even for students to use as a reference for their own paper.If I were to sell people my essays?
I think I should be able to sell people my essays. I write really good essays (when I write them in the right state of mind!), and I have a lot of them because I was in a lot of classes that wrote a lot of essays a lot. I've always gotten As on my papers (except for the one I wrote when I was technically "drunk"--but that's a story for later!--and I still got a B+ on it) and other people deserve to get As on their papers, and I deserve to get moneys for all those papeeeerrrrrssss.....
O.Q
Hope this helps!
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No, it's only plagiarism for the people who buy your essays, not for you.
At least in theory, you will be getting money for all those essays anyway since people with a college degree have higher average lifetime earnings than those who don't.
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Money, if high enough, will always trump personal ethics.
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Add TOW™ wrote:
Everyone has their price, huh?Money, if high enough, will always trump personal ethics.
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ColonelCoburn wrote:
😲😲😱 Woah man..... That's deep.... Ima try that someday.... This isn't sarcastic I'm just really frackin tired right now.....SeñoritaMafioso wrote:
Not at all, people do it to make money. That's exactly what newspaper writers do. It's only plagiarizing if you sell them to students to turn in as their own assignment. But not if you sold them for people to have an interesting read, or even for students to use as a reference for their own paper.If I were to sell people my essays?
I think I should be able tc blah blah blah blah blah a lot of essays a lot. I've always gotten As on my papers (except for the one I wrote when I was technically "drunk"--but that's a story for later!--and I still got a B+ on it) and other people deserve to get As on their papers, and I deserve to get moneys for all those papeeeerrrrrssss.....
O.Q
Hope this helps!
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The Right Hand wrote:
Not true man!!! I would never sell my mother's kidneys on ebay....Add TOW™ wrote:
Everyone has their price, huh?Money, if high enough, will always trump personal ethics.
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You both lose when one cheats.
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If you were an accredited scholar, then selling your essay would be deemed "distributing Research".
Given the circumstance and my knowledge of the system, it would be a bad idea to sell- not only can you get in serious trouble for providing the "cheat tool" but if its more than one person they'll probably turn it into some kind of conspiracy.
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SeñoritaMafioso wrote:
We all would.......for the right price of course 😏The Right Hand wrote:
Not true man!!! I would never sell my mother's kidneys on ebay....Add TOW™ wrote:
Everyone has their price, huh?Money, if high enough, will always trump personal ethics.
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🔥Maybe⌖Katie🔥 wrote:
You both lose when one cheats.
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@Aubergine- If you read the OP, she says she wrote a lot of papers cause she was in a lot of classes, and she would like to sell them to help others.
As in, Selling papers that have already been graded.Accredited- to be officially authorized or recognized
Scholar-a specialist in a particular branch of study.For being so dam smart, you overlook the easiest bits. 🌰
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There used to be a website that was full of essays that people wrote and shared for free. I used to use it all the time as a reference, when you have 8 papers a week to write you need any help you can get. I used it for the research aspect. Several of my teachers used turnitin.com for their papers, it made copy and paste impossible. Although I did have one professor that didn't read anything I wrote. I would put whole paragraphs in a paper written to him just to see if I could get a response. Nothing. You better bet I plagiarized a little in that class. Ironically enough it was an ethics class.
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Bah, ye know what I mean...
Professors, teachers and whatnots- accredited scholars.
They are officially authorized or recognized for their particular teachings. 🌳Google doesn't know everything :P
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I got to thinking about this, and also how I cheated my ethics class, and that made me think of John Stewart Mill who had the idea of utilitarianism. He said that its not only ethical, but we are obligated to do that which produces the greatest amount of good for society as a whole.
If you are particularly good at essay writing you should, according to mill, make your works available or even sell them to those who aren't so good at essay writing.
You have a calling in life. According to some guy I think is a nutcase. But he has a recognized theory!
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༎།SཛཀᎢཇΧ།༎ wrote:
Not sure that's always the case - once I copied a friends accountancy coursework (partly due to being lazy and not having the required time to do it myself) and i ended up getting a better grade than the original paper (same teacher marking) ha ha🔥Maybe⌖Katie🔥 wrote:
You both lose when one cheats.
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mojopilot wrote:
According to Mill's utilitarianism, "the greatest good for the most people" is a very complex idea. I think Mill would agree that it is arguable that selling your essays would be in the best interest of those that would actually buy them, i.e. students who ought to be writing their own papers. This is the core issue with utilitarianism. Who gets to decide by what measures we evaluate the greater good?I got to thinking about this, and also how I cheated my ethics class, and that made me think of John Stewart Mill who had the idea of utilitarianism. He said that its not only ethical, but we are obligated to do that which produces the greatest amount of good for society as a whole.
If you are particularly good at essay writing you should, according to mill, make your works available or even sell them to those who aren't so good at essay writing.
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mojopilot wrote:
I got to thinking about this, and also how I cheated my ethics class, and that made me think of John Stewart Mill who had the idea of utilitarianism. He said that its not only ethical, but we are obligated to do that which produces the greatest amount of good for society as a whole.
If you are particularly good at essay writing you should, according to mill, make your works available or even sell them to those who aren't so good at essay writing.
You have a calling in life. According to some guy I think is a nutcase. But he has a recognized theory!
You're only measuring good, and individual good at that - someone passes who shouldn't.
Measure the harm of the unqualified doctors and nurses who paid for essays instead of learning what they are supposed to, and then recalibrate your measuring stick.
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As for the original question... For the OP, no its not plagiarism on your part, it's just unethical and certainly against your university's code of conduct or whatever they like to call it. If you're still studying, expect to get punished.
For the punters who pay you, they'll fail at best, get expelled at worst. They would be cheating. The only way they could use your work was if it was peer reviewed, and they referenced it correctly.
Google TURNITIN and see what you're up against.
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Why would you encourage cheating? 😒
Students don't "deserve" to get an A (or even a passing grade) for a paper they didn't write. If that were the case, the assignment would be to read a paper, not write one.
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Mystery wrote:
...and sometimes not even so much as read the paper before turning it in!Why would you encourage cheating? 😒
*snip*.....If that were the case, the assignment would be to read a paper, not write one.
Cheating isn't good for anyone.
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ulyanov wrote:
Word.mojopilot wrote:
I got to thinking about this, and also how I cheated my ethics class, and that made me think of John Stewart Mill who had the idea of utilitarianism. He said that its not only ethical, but we are obligated to do that which produces the greatest amount of good for society as a whole.
If you are particularly good at essay writing you should, according to mill, make your works available or even sell them to those who aren't so good at essay writing.
You have a calling in life. According to some guy I think is a nutcase. But he has a recognized theory!
You're only measuring good, and individual good at that - someone passes who shouldn't.
Measure the harm of the unqualified doctors and nurses who paid for essays instead of learning what they are supposed to, and then recalibrate your measuring stick.
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edd shot wrote:
I know who I'll never trust to manage my books. Why attend college or university at all? You could buy a degree online with less effort and less money.༎།SཛཀᎢཇΧ།༎ wrote:
Not sure that's always the case - once I copied a friends accountancy coursework (partly due to being lazy and not having the required time to do it myself) and i ended up getting a better grade than the original paper (same teacher marking) ha ha🔥Maybe⌖Katie🔥 wrote:
You both lose when one cheats.
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I was being facetious, I wasn't encouraging cheating, just taking a concept to its extreme and poking fun at it.
Now I'm getting a little off topic, and this is just a hypothetical question, but is working efficiently (even if that means using parts of someone else's work) always bad? Ulyanov, you talk about unqualified doctors who may have cheated their way to where they are. I personally don't see how that is possible. Maybe they could bs their way through college and maybe even med school. But you can't cheat residency.
The same is true with many career paths. College is in my opinion not so much about teaching skills as building character and instilling work ethic (that's what cheating ruins).
Many of the critical job skills are learned on the job or specialized training, not in a college (or especially a high school) classroom. There certainly are exceptions, but most classes are more about building a well rounded person than a skilled person. If you cheat through those you only hurt yourself.
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👍 to everything Katie posted.
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༺☠Ꮹཞ༏ཀཀ☠༻ wrote:
Much as I've always gotten along well with you Senorita, I'm inclined to agree with Grimm.👍 to everything Katie posted.
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♠Ƭϋʀғä♠ wrote:
Hell has officially frozen over. Look out for flying pigs folks! ;)༺☠Ꮹཞ༏ཀཀ☠༻ wrote:
Much as I've always gotten along well with you Senorita, I'm inclined to agree with Grimm.👍 to everything Katie posted.
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