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Is using an academic ghost writer dishonest?

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Yes
67% 309 votes Total: 459 votes
No
33% 150 votes

by Nita Tyson

Created on: June 14, 2008

I'm an academic ghost writer. Would I use an academic ghost writer? Yes, I would, and here's why.

We don't believe in cheating.

All of the work that you receive from a {good} academic ghost writer is carefully referenced so that you can follow up on the references and read the original source materials. We don't waste time providing you with old, out of date stuff; you tell us what we want and we'll find it for you. It's not cheating, if the school has you spend hours in class learning how to "outsource" when you're out in the real worldand most colleges these days teach that very "skill". When you learn all the ins and outs of selecting just the right company to do work that you cannot do or don't have time to do, and you plan the essay, it's not cheating. I don't understand how colleges think outsourcing professional work is okay, but it's NOT okay to hire a company to assist the student with research, and, quite honestly, to teach students how to write term papers.

We help teach students how to write.

Some of our customers are busy professionals, with jobs, spouses, a child or two, and a need for a degree or an additional degree. Many of our students are quite high up the ladder in their companies, and need the degree to remain competitive. Many times we can tell that our clients could write an incredible paper, if only they had the time. There's nothing wrong with hiring someone to do the base research and write a draft, if the student is quite capable of doing the work themselves. After all, the school is teaching them to outsource

Some of our customers, however, have difficulty stringing enough words together to write an email. Take a minute and think about this: if they've made it this far, their work was perfectly acceptable to a whole slew of other teachers and professors, but that doesn't make it good work. No one could afford to buy their papers the whole way through school, it is too expensive.

A surprising number of students get to their final papers and are clueless as to how to write a really good paper. They submit a first draft of a dissertation or thesis and get it rejected and redlined, and have no idea why. They've spent a huge amount of money on an education and didn't learn to write.

What about their professors?

I get to see hundreds of assignments from hundreds of professors. I carefully write down the name of certain schools, because there are many colleges I would never, and I mean N*E*V*E*R, pay for my children to attend. I see how many professors

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