why are students too lazy to do their own work?

Not to lash out on anyone or anything, but I'm tired of lazy students who use essay companies to do their work.

1. you are the reasons the educational system sucks.
2. you will be the ones to mess up the economy.
3. you will be another George W. Bush running for president

Such a shame...and it's quite pathetic. You are the same students who receive re-distributed papers from upset writers. You deserve everything that happens to your academic career because of your laziness.

Keep your ignorant political opinions to yourself.

Amy, you really need to get a life.

I noticed how you jumped around all of the posts on this forum.

Maybe they should pay you for this instead of talking smack about other companies?

I'm not the one to get into a 'forum brawl'...I have better things to do.

And...my post was correct. Only ignorant people claim a post political..I'm sure you're one of the few students who got a foot in the a*^ by those essay companies.

yes? I'm right once again.

You're just a victim of lost hope.

=]

"you will be another George W. Bush running for president"

Case closed.

Anyway, it was my original thinking that the custom paper writing industry has become sufficiently well known to be depicted in popular media, an issue that I found interesting and thought others might too -- especially since it's mostly negative. I can think of some other examples as well. For example, "essay mill" has found its way into Wikipedia: "An essay mill (or paper mill) helps students who seek to buy essays and other written homework and to pass off this ghostwritten work as their own. Educators generally see this as a form of academic dishonesty or academic fraud." Likewise, ABC News: "Is Plagiarism Big Business Online?". Please feel free to contribute other examples or ignore as you see fit.

essaywriterwriter, so you work as a writer but don't like writing.. Hmm..

Um..I'm a copywriter..I like copywriting because the returns are beautiful. I played around with the essay aspects for a minute, but it's not interesting anymore.

So...maybe the vagueness could be cleared.

Some students don't have time, but some have too much money and prefer to by an essay. Some student parents' are too ambitious and want their children to get education even though they are too lazy or stupid to get a diploma.

maybe its cuz the essays dont reflect wht they want to do in life but in order to do wht they want to do in life they need that degree

I think someone who comes to this board for reasons other than to get information on essay writing services needs to get a life.

that sums it up

Some other students are corrupt too, the read your essay and either copy it or save it somewhere just to request for endless revisions, papers are eventually canceled and refunds are requested, summing up, the writer is messed.

EssayWriterWriter,

Are you an essay writer?! You're name seems to indicate you are - or do you mean you write your own work?

Well there are a number of reasons why someone might need the assignment written for them, but indeed unless its a special case you really are then just buying a false label that you never earn t yourself.

I am very new to this site and joined as i had a disappointing experience.

My reasons for using an essay writing service is one of pure desperation.

I have been out of education for a number of years and returned as a distance learner whilst working full time and with 2 children under the age of 4. Also a in the area that i am employed heavy redundancies are currently underway. My motives for using a service was to show me how a very technical essay should be written so that i could achieve the best mark i possibly could. I have carried out research and been to the local libraries to borrow books however when it came to writing about my findings I was lost in structure and APA referencing (many different types!)

Well, today i have been very let down as the company i used, without warning, said that my order was on hold.

All I can say is that it was an expensive lesson and that I will attempt to struture this - who knows i may even be good at it!

I do agree with some of the postings in that it could be seen that it is the lazy way out for some however my opinion is that I want guidance on the best way to set out an assignment / essay. Back to the drawing board!

I just have to much on my plate (my fault) and need help with a paper.

Tara, that is my case too, I work a fulltime job and am just trying to decipher and find a reputable writing company. I do about 2/3 of my own writing but sometimes I just need a helping hand. We are not ignorant just busy!!! I take all my own tests and hold an A avg. score, so If I was ignorant I wouldn't be holding such a high grade.

I don't agree that the cause is being lazy alone. Some are single parents, or working full time, or having ill-health, going through hospitalization, pregnancy, touring jobs. Or they might be first-time international students who are yet to comprehend the system. Or they could be attending a family emergency, illhealth, death - anything could be the cause. Easy to be judgemental.

I used essay help many times before I did my research. Now I am a full-time writer. I still remember those desparate days of essay-hunting and the anxiety, getting money ready and not knowing which writer to trust. Not easy.

This might be a bit rash, but here goes.

When the bolier breaks down I employ a certified Plumber. I'm not lazy, Plumbers are bl**dy expensive even if you can get them to turn up and do the work (sound familliar?). Am I lazy that I have not yet qualified to do this task for myself?

When I have a tumour in my head I engage a Brain Surgeon. I don't do it myself 'cos that would just be plain stupid. Again, does this make me lazy?

I could write endlessy with examples where I engage other persons with skills I don't (yet) have, but there is too much dilutative waffle on this and other forums already.

If my Plumber shows me where the problem was and I use that skill, which I paid for, to rectify the same problem in the future..... can you see where I am going with this arguement. Enough said.

I simply use it as another resource to my writing a paper. I ordered one got ripped off however wrote my own paper. I never ever hand in someone else work as my own. This is just a resource just like if I was reading it from a book. I am a online student so every little bit I can get to help me better understand what I am working on it fantastic. I check all citations and read all the websites that are quoted I am not a lazy student just using something that is out there for help only that is exactly what it is for help not doing my work for me. I cite all my references even if it is from someone else. Even if it was from my best friend it is a reference it get cited but never ever copy someones work I would be thrown out of school for that.

I dont think though i will be using them as a reference anymore since I have already been ripped off once and they actually did not help me at all but got a A on my paper without them :)

How do you go about referencing an essay you've bought from an essay site, then?

In the bibliography, I mean. What do you put?

I write most of my own stuff but had I have had 2 papers written due to time constraints.

Now you must ask yourself that question again, but pose it differently..are students too lazy to do their own work..a thousand reasons come into play, but drawing a conclusion such as yours was based on what?

What have you done to assist these lazy students?
Why do you do it?
Why the contempt?

Life Is Good-Helping is good.

Writer 5231. (2009). OMG this is so friggin' crazy. Essay Mill.

A popular essay site provides a citation example for every paper that it publishes:

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How to Cite this Paper

MLA Citation:

"Learning Styles and Strategies." [domain]. 18 Sep 2009
<[domain]/view.asp?id=366569>
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Prof: Can you explain where you got this article that you cited in your paper?
Student: Oh, I got it from an essay mill.
Prof: I see. So you had them do the exact same assignment that I had you do and then you cited some of the work they did?

Student: Yeah.
Prof: You used the same sources it did?
Student: Yup, I added one or two more though... for good measure.
Prof: Nice.. nice... and you quoted the same stuff it quoted from the sources?
Student: Not all of them, I paraphrased the others.
Prof: Oh, good. Can I see the source?
Student: Here you go.
Prof: The work you submitted seems to be just an entirely paraphrased version of this source.
Student: Well, yeah... it's a model.
Prof: Oh, ok. *stamps F on student's paper* Nice model.

Fin.

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i think it's more like a "we have too much on our plates" to complete certain assignments sometimes. That is why we would look for essay writers on our last resort.

i think you right, sometimes i feel like the times fly like f16 in mach two.

these are charming answers, and they also illustrate another reason: people may know the material, but can't get the English idiom quite right. writing papers is also something that does not really carry across cultures sometimes-- many Asians have trouble with Western citation styles, for example, because their whole academic quotation system is much different.

as a pro term paper hack, I understand that there are different gray areas, each with attendant excuses.

i agree with you, i know the area but is hard to carry across cultures... our culture is different, it is like free writer from esl country trying to get a decent job on essay company.

whatever, you either have the juice, or you don't. you can't blame it on culture. English is a global language.

my least favorite type of customer is the know-it-all who is "too busy," and demands oversight over every last paragraph of the essay, with the attitude that they could have done it tons better, if only they weren't so busy...

to this type of sweat hog customer, if you happen to be reading, I'd like to ask: you what the hell are you using a writing service for, if you already think you know everything? you know what I know? your university pass-code!

What gives you the right to judge the students who use writing services in such a harsh manner? You don't know what they are going through at the time that they contact an independent writer or an academic writing service. Your assumptions show how ignorant you are of the various desperate, and valid scenarios that a student comes up against which pushes the person to hire help. While not everyone will do this during their academic career, there will be a number of them who, due to circumstances beyond their control, will hire the extra hand just so they can keep up with the demands of their classes. Not all of these students, both past and present represent the demise of the international educational system, I won't limit it to American education because the writers work with students from all over the world. Rather, they are trailblazers leading the way towards a modern educational system. Since colleges and universities are more keen on making money rather than educating the student in a proper manner, the fact that these students seek outside help show that there is a new normal in terms of college education. You can't complete it without a ghost writer. The academic rigors plus the jobs the students need to keep in order to stay financially afloat and stay in school, means that they will get help with their students in any way they can. That includes hiring an academic writer to help them with their papers.

Considering the high academic demands that college students are facing, add to that their inability to fully afford all their fees so that they need to work at least part-time in order to earn the extra expense fees, and the way that all of the assignments are mostly written essay homework, it is easy to see how students will always require the extra academic writing help as they progress with their studies. It is easy to say that the students are lazy, if you are a financially stable student whose college fees are not a problem, dad will always just write another check when you ask him to. Not all these students are as lucky as you are though. There are actually students out there who deserve the academic help they receive. Not all of them are lazy and we can only hope that these lazy kids never try to run for president. The presidency is no place for the weak minded.

Many of my clients are actually very good students whose major fields of study (and eventual careers) just dont require extensive writing. Nurses and engineers, for example, will never again have to write anything similar to any of the writing projects assigned to them as undergraduates. They'd just rather use their time mastering the skills that they'll actually need in the future (or studying for their exams) than writing a 10-page paper for some required Liberal Arts or General Studies course. None of them is going to be a worse nurse or engineer for having hired me to write some Sociology or History essay in college. I can produce a better essay in a day than they can in a month, and without the headache, time investment, and the month-long stress that they typically experience with the types of assignments for which they hire me.

The majority of my clients aren't lazy at all. They are overworked and most have a full-time job and a family. They are faced with so many projects and very little time. Then there are those who aren't good writers and simply need help putting their info into a coherent form. Just because a student uses an academic writer or writing service does not mean s/he is lazy. In fact, most are smart to ask for help instead of trying to throw something together or totally missing the assignment altogether!

A lot of the clients I have worked for had personal issues (that they obviously would not disclose but would brush upon when initially making contact) that urged them to seek for the service. I found that a handful of them had even continuously rambled and apologized for availing and seeking help in the first place to ease their academic stress. This honestly saddens me. The toxicity of the academic culture simply is not for everyone. There's a reason why these students do this.

Well, not all of them. In some cases students try to combine work with studies so don't always have time for homework.

I think that a great discussion for here would not necessarily be about their laziness or the individual traits and experiences that students go through. Rather, the educational system has long been overdue for extensive revisions (in a lot of different countries). Some people do order from essay writing sites simply because they do not see the point of particular courses that are mandatory for them to take (ie. not envisioning that it would help them in the long-run in their career). There's so much left to unravel.