Downloading a ready paper from essay paper databases - it is plagiarized? Deleting process.

So when I buy a paper from "1 million essay paper database" then the paper is plagiarized, right? Who writes these papers I can download for money in the first place?

Essays on a database are for a guideline only and can be sold a 100 times over as they are for ideas only. If you want an original you have to pay for one to be specially written for you. The database ones are cheaper because they are resold so many times.

Strictly speaking you should NEVER submit an essay thats been written by someone else as though it was your own as that is plagairism, but many students ignore this and submit them anyway.

But who wrote them? Are they good for college level?

I have written some model answer ones before and yes thay are good for college level but you could not submit them as they are as several other people will have bought the same one

[Moved from]: Deleting a downloaded paper.

After your writer has finished and you have downloaded the paper from the link, can you delete the link now? I thought this was an option. What i wanna know is can't powerful software used by schools, find and scan these download links, on *********, or are the links secure and the software cant access these links? I can't find a way to delete the download links. Thanks.

It's a secure website that nobody can access without a password. But if you use a school's computer or network connection, they could determine who went to what websites no matter what you delete on your end, same as any business computer or network connection. They still can't acess your account without a password, but they would know what websites you accessed on their system (in general) if they had some reason to check.

o.k. great, thanks FreelanceWriter.

It is not justified to purchase it without knowing about it in details.

What, what, what?

These essays are normally uploaded by college graduates looking to make some money off their collected assignments, essays, and research papers over their time as a college student. These papers are not meant to be downloaded and submitted for a grade. These are actual model papers that you can only use as a reference guide for the completion of your own essay. You can either paraphrase the work or, use bits and pieces of information from it in order to fill in the blanks of the paper you have written yourself. I am not sure what you mean by "deleting process". Do you mean to ask about when the original essays are deleted from the database? Or if you can delete your copy of the paper after you have used it? Either way, the copy on the server remains there for the reference of others. Multiple students can download the same paper which is why it is not advised that you turn in database essays for a grade.

As far as I know, these papers are uploaded by two types of people. The first are, as Smiley73 said, college students who wish to monetize their previously written papers. The other, are independent writers who have about 3 or more years worth of collected client papers. They make a few modifications to the paper to bring it more up to date and also, to make sure that it passes the quality standards of the paper mill, then upload and wait for students to purchase the paper.

While I do not practice this method of reselling papers as I send electronic transfer of rights agreements to my clients each time, I do know of some writers who engage in this business. When I asked them why they do it, the answer seemed logical and criminal at the same time; "College research papers are gifts that just keep on giving." For as long as they can modify the paper, then can keep reselling the same paper over and over again.

This was asked several years ago, but I wanted to add my thought for those newer readers.

We can "assume" that mill papers are written by college students, but no one has a way of knowing for sure.

A few years ago, I conducted research on paper mills and found that many papers are cut/paste from wiki sites and some are articles or blog posts pasted into a document.

So, potential clients will want to be very careful of purchasing from a paper database. If you find that a purchased paper is in fact copy/paste, you likely have little recourse.

The companies reselling these documents are fully aware that not all papers are "real" papers. They don't care as long as the sale is made. Once they have your $, you're on your own.

Bottom line: approach any reselling service with caution. It's always best to use custom writing services or a freelance writer. If money is the issue (as I know it is for many), request a sample that you can then check for originality.

No sample? Write it yourself. Yes, that's opposite the reason you went searching for a paper in the first place, I'm sure, but it all depends on whether you want to risk using "stolen" material whether you're citing it or not. ;)

Sites that help you study are just best. How a studying guide or even work sample be bad if you learn how to perform a task correctly? I use studentshare to find essay samples and then write my own papers. So, is signing up for studentshare bad? No, if you get the experience and transform it in doing own work, but more efficient. I think it is a profit, not the blame.

I do like to complete my assignments all by myself, as I think it is the only right way to actually learn. But I do use various websites that give a general clue or keys on how to do this and that correctly. I guess it is the same as asking a professor or a classmate for help. Now I use studetshare because of great volume of essays. So, is studentshare legit? sure, it is your help.

Other than the obvious ESL text that reads exactly like your posts, your website looks like a great service for anybody who also owns a time machine to go to school and graduate before 2007, when pre-written essays became obsolete because of Turnitin.

There was never a reference made by @TonyV that would indicate that he was encouraging students to use the information provided by the studentshare as an actual reference point in a current research paper. I think there are two ways of understanding his ESL statement of:


What i think he is trying to do is entice the students to use studentshare as one of the early reading materials of a student for his current research topic. Yes, their database essays are so old, most of it is irrelevant to today's society and learning environment. However, all students, in my opinion, are students of history. Therefore, if they desire to learn more information and write a well educated essay based on facts and other data, then historical considerations are important to the discussion. That is not to say that the student should use that old information in his essay. Rather, the old information will help him understand where the new information is coming from.

Turnitin has nothing to do with is as long as the student does not use the old paper for a grade by simply trying to revise the content. Their database, as I mentioned in a different post, is nothing more than an academic essay / research paper form of Wikipedia. It is good for a starting off point. Don't take all of the information provided in the essays seriously due to the age of the information provided. Additional research will be and still be required for the writing of the new essay that will then be submitted for a grade.

So I believe that studentshare should be viewed this way:

Studentshare for basic understanding of a research topic = Yes

Studentshare paper paraphrased and submitted for a grade = No

I checked his website. It's no different from any other essay company, except for the fact that it still devotes a lot of space to promoting pre-written essays, unlike most modern essay companies that have phased that out, because Turnitin has made pre-written essays worthless.

@FreelanceWriter Turnitin hasn't made pre-written essays worthless. They still have some worth to college students. All college students can benefit from old essays, written by students before them. Don't automatically assume that the student only needs the pre-written paper with a plagiarism intent. There are other students who are honest and simply need a reference point when it comes to writing their own essays. As a college student, don't you remember the experience of getting an essay or research paper assignment, or having to turn in a term paper, without having any idea how to go about researching and writing it? That is where the pre-written essays come in these days. The honest students who just need a point in the right direction turn to pre-written essays for that purpose. Now, if the old essay happens to influence their writing style or opinion, then it comes with the territory. They read the old paper, some of the information is bound to stick to stick and find its way into the new paper. That isn't plagiarism, that is an education. He actually learned something from reading the old paper, which is the whole point of writing the paper.

College students don't need to pay anybody for old essays if they just want them as examples of how other students have fulfilled assignments. In fact, many professors actually distribute previous examples and even most of those who don't do this will happily provide them to any student who requests them. If students really want old essays only as "examples," they can always get them from their social networks at school. College students have been sharing their old essays with one another this way for generations, and long before digital social networking vastly expanded their social networks beyond immediate in-person acquaintances. Typically, they've always gotten them from friends who already took the same course or from the vast libraries of old essays maintained by every fraternity on every college campus, often categorized by year, topic, and even by specific professors. Nobody really needs to purchase old essays from commercial essay companies when one can easily find old essays right on campus that were actually used in the same course and that received good grades from the same professor. If their intended use is perfectly legitimate and only what's allowed by professors and by institutional student codes of ethics, there's really no reason to go outside of your own college campus for "examples" of good essays.


Actually, this is rank plagiarism by every known academic standard defining plagiarism. If they use any idea from any source without citing and referencing that source, it's plagiarism and if a professor notices that something in your essay was derived from a previous student's paper, it's not going to help you to tell the professor that you didn't mean to plagiarize, but a few ideas from the old essay that you read just "stuck" in your head and "found their way" into your essay. If previously-written papers still had any commercial value -- which is precisely what we're discussing here -- the bottom wouldn't have, essentially, fallen through the floor for essay companies that did a lot of business selling old essays prior to 2007 when turnitin first came on board. Likewise, if old papers still had anywhere even close to the same value to students that they had prior to 2007, the market for original essays wouldn't have exploded the way it did, starting right around the same time (2007). The simple truth is that the vast majority of the millions of college students who have used old papers in the last 100+ years used them to copy and re-purpose parts of them instead of doing their own original writing. Until 2007, many if not most customers in this industry got away with the cheaper option by purchasing pre-written essays. Since plagiarism scanning became routine in academia, there's almost no commercial market remaining for pre-written papers, precisely because they have so much less value to students.


Of course I do; that's exactly why I recounted that experience in significant detail in my Review thread right on this forum: I want my clients to know that I understand what they're going through and that even (some) people who were very intimidated by writing assignments in college eventually became good, confident, and even prolific writers. It's absolutely none of my business what my clients choose to do with the work they purchase from me (whose copyrights they own exclusively) and I'm not criticizing anybody for whatever he or she does with respect to fulfilling college writing assignments. I'm simply explaining that from the commercial perspective, pre-written essays have almost zero value nowadays, precisely because the vast majority of students who use pre-written essays don't use them in ways that are condoned by their professors or permitted by institutional student codes of ethics. If they did, I don't know that I'd be able to make a decent living selling original custom essays.

These rewritten essay databases are no longer applicable in the context of today's research world. Not only is the information outdated, it is also unusable since these can easily be detected by turnitin. Students these days prompt AI to generate a sample paper instead. From there, some make the mistake of using the paper itself, cut and paste, then asking someone to edit the content for originality. While some, use the sources provided and write their own paper. Is the AI generated paper plagiarized? It might be. Only a plagiarism check can confirm or deny that. Is it an original paper when the student rewrites everything the AI generated? Yes. It becomes an original paper because it contains the wordings and perspective of the student at that point, even if he uses AI generated sources.