Term Paper Writing Services - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Term paper writing services are all over the internet - thousands of them to choose from - many that promise everything from guaranteed “A’s” to Harvard Professors writing your paper. How do you tell which term paper service to use and what is the difference between them? We can give you the low-down on the best of them and the worst - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of term paper writing services.
There are two different kinds of term paper services - custom writing services and pre-written term paper services. We will look at the benefits and drawbacks of each and let you decide which is best for you.
The Good
Custom writing services allow students to fill out an order form with exactly what they need. Meaning, you can paste the exact instructions from your professor in the order form and the company will write your paper according to every detail in your professor’s instructions. This ensures that your paper will be custom written because you can be as specific as you want to make certain the company doesn’t sell you something generic and already written.
The negative side of custom writing services is that they their research papers are more expensive than pre-written term papers. This is because a custom company has to hire a freelance writer to write your project. Freelance writers usually are paid anywhere from $10 to $17 per page for their services. So in order for a custom term paper company to turn a profit, they have to charge up-words $20 to $30 a page just to cover the writer and their operating costs!
The Bad
Pre-written term paper services were the rage of the internet 7 or 8 years ago. Thousands of papers would be catalogued online and a student could browse through the short descriptions and download an entire paper for $10! Even better, some services allowed students to sign up with them and download hundreds of papers for a monthly free. However, if a student is unwise and hands the paper in as his/her own, professor’s soon got wise to seeing the same paper semester after semester and began looking for a way to combat these companies. Enter TurnItIn.com - TurnItIn.com put an end to buying pre-written term papers online, as the service catalogues all database term papers in their database full of literally billions of pages of term papers.
The Ugly
What turns ugly is when students use term paper services that do not sell original material and then unwisely hand the paper in as their own. TurnItIn.com catches all plagiarized term papers, including ones that students buy from database companies. They’ve been sold hundreds of times and a student gets caught in a Mexican Standoff between the Student, the Professor and Term Paper Company. The student blames the term paper company, the professor blames the student and the term paper company is the one left standing, with money in its pocket.
You can decide for yourself how you wish to utilize term paper services. They are fantastic resources for research, as long as you know the pitfalls. Custom companies cost more but you are safe from plagiarism issues. Database term paper services or pre-written term paper services work fine if you don’t fall to the temptation of handing the paper in as your own and use it only as a reference because their papers have been sold hundreds of times. The choice is yours but be sure to weigh “The Good”, “The Bad” and “The Ugly”.
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November 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Antonia,
This is really unfortunate. At Paper Masters, we get very disheartened at hearing about other term paper companies cheating their customers. There is no need for this. There are plenty of eager, honest term paper writers out there that want to write a legitimate paper for their clients that selling a cut and paste project as “custom” is just lazy and outright stealing. The term paper industry has a bad name…these sites are responsible for this. Investigate every company out there and go with the company that 1) Has 24 hour live customer service 2) Has a blog like this one where dissatisfied customers can post their concerns 3) Passes an internet search for complaints and fraud listings 4) Has a verifiable location in the United States.