I knew he cheated, but I had no evidence - Is it funny?

As a lecturer we know students use online academic help, but we still mark the papers and give them beautiful grades. As a writer, we know it is cheating, but we still write and enjoy staying updated on various subjects (knowledge expansion). Sometimes we give our students essays. Afterward, on visiting a writing platform, you encounter identical essays, which earlier you had provided as an assignment. You pick it, write and post it back. Coincidentally, the student collect the paper and you find out that it is your piece of work. mark it, deny him/her an A+ (deny yourself an A+++). I gave him a B because I knew he cheated, but I had no evidence. Moreover, you even provide recommendations on the missed data. I found it funny, but it happened once. One in a million!

If a person is a lecturer and giving out assignments and acting as freelance writer, isn't it incorrect ?

aplusman, you don't suggest being a 'lecturer,' do you (unless it's in a non-English speaking country). Who hired you to mark other students' essays?

Sometimes it is not possible to avoid such kind of situations. You are right "it happens once, one in a million"

No.... NOO..... are you saying a student submitted YOUR essay to YOU?

I think that it is very funny indeed. If you were not sworn to secrecy regarding your identity as a writer to the client, it would have made for a very interesting and comical conversation with this student. I wonder how he would have taken it, knowing that his teacher actually wrote his paper. Nah, he would have probably demanded a perfect A since you gave the assignment and wrote the paper for him. I can almost see how you first gave him a score tongue in cheek. I bet you knew a revision request was coming right?

I imagine that you were laughing off your seat when he did that. Having to revise your own work and score it down, I don't think I could have done that with a straight face. Might I ask though, how did you treat the student during the rest of the school year? Did he become a regular client for you at the time? Would you say that you viewed that student in a different light from that point?

I know that if it were me, I would find myself smiling knowingly at him each time he passed an assignment paper, or I would have been harder on him in class knowing that he was not carrying his weight in terms of learning the lessons you worked so hard to develop and teach them. Has anyone else here had a similar experience? I'd love to hear how it went for the others in similar situations.

That is definitely funny. However, I would like to congratulate you on being an honest teacher or professor. I mean, I personally know several professors who do student academic writing on the side. Hey, nobody said being a teacher paid well. Getting paid for the essays of other students have actually made them better teachers. Yes, there are a few times when they catch the students passing off work that the teacher wrote, and, they give them the perfect grade just because they are proud of the work that they did. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, some of them are even tempted to clue in the students about how they know the paper was written by someone else. They don't do it though. They don't want to embarrass the students and also, run the risk of being fired for the gray area job that they do on the side.

Cite, my first question to you is: where are you, generally, getting your information? The above seems to be a very specific story of a teacher reading their own term paper handed in directly by a student, and passing them, "a few times," but there is no context in terms of where this kind of thing is going on, when, with whom, etc. Is it a personal story?

Also, and I guess this is my biggest question to you: if it's true, why is there "nothing wrong with that?" It seems very wrong, in several ways, both ethically and legally (contract violation being the tip of the iceberg). So, again, the reader needs some context.

Now, before you go answering any other 10+ year old questions in any other threads, please address these and others posed to you on this forum.

This situation is something that could only happen in the pre AI days of the writing industry. These days, human writers employed as teachers will find it difficult to come by a student who unknowingly hired the services of his teacher to write the specific paper. They just have to run the file through an AI program and it will spew out a new essay based upon previously provided information.

Cite never addressed the question, but I also highly doubt that he could possibly really have had any personal knowledge of professors actually ghostwriting essays for any students.