Is it safe for a writer to sell assignments?

I have done tons of assignments in the past. So, my question is that can we make money through the assignments done in the past? Is there any genuine way to sell those assignments? Would be happy to hear from you all.

No, not anymore. Turnitin.com has destroyed the pre-written essay market by making essays handed in more than a few times useless.

The collapse of the pre-written essay market, if you think about it, is a pretty good sign that the vast majority of students who buy term-papers just hand them in without changing anything. Otherwise, pre-written essays would still have value as "models."

You may NOT legally sell or publish any work-for-hire products that you completed for clients.

.. or use deceptive anti-plagiarism tools that store and publish the checked material anyway ..

The last time I checked, it was legally impossible to plagiarize oneself. Anyway, it's a moot point, because pre-written essays are like dinosaurs and 8-track cassettes now.

Well, it depends on the particular circumstances. In work-for-hire scenarios, the words do not belong to "oneself"; they belong to the paying client.

If we're really going to get into the legal nitty gritty, pretty much everything is going to need to be put into semantically indeterminate quotation marks, including "belong." But that's a lot of effort to waste on an anachronism.

thanks a lot for your replies. Actually I was thinking of selling assignments that are older than 3-4 years (so definitely those students have already passed and completed their degrees, whom i had helped in the past, so this is not going to harm my clients).

Now I came to know that websites such as academon do accept these assignments for sale. The clients can basically get help from these assignments (but cannot submit these directly in their Univ.). So, it seems a bit legit.

Kindly share your opinions further.
Thank you

This person seems a little thick. Hey! Hey OP! You are pursuing what is known as a "dead lead." Are you naturally a stubborn person?


If you can't accept that truth, and it's not simply an error in understanding on your part, by all means, keep your sights securely on that pie in the sky you're imagining. You are assuredly horrible at English from an academic perspective, so I guess there's no harm. Just keep in mind that companies like academon will actually read, and have the option of denying, whatever you give them.

Where are you from, by the way?

Thanks for your comments. Yes I am stubborn :)
I have submitted 15 assignments to academon and each of them is accepted. I am from India and have done tons of assignments for UK, Australian students in the past.

Sorry, but YOU don't get to make that call. Plus, you may not bend copyright law to suit your personal agenda.

many students and writers are doing so... am not selling current papers. but its about the papers written at least 4-5 years ago..

You missed the boat, "expert," and you are a fool. 15 papers... ! if you had 5000 papers accepted, it would be barely $20 a year in the current market, and that's an optimistic figure. India has a huge, rising middle class, and I'm assuming you're not a part of it, if that kind of money means anything to you.

A promise is not money. Believe me, I used to make thousands of dollars at academon. It reached near standstill a few years ago in an inverse of turnitin.com's ascendance... about five years ago, coincidentally enough! The market is dry; don't be a stubborn fool.

As per the website it all depends on the number of sales of the paper. I have around 2000 papers (including dissertations), if the frequency of sales is high, then i assume i can make profits else $20-40 is nothing...

I would expect someone to comment who had ACTUALLY sold papers through these resellers.
Well thanks for your comments though


Ok so you used it to sell... Thanks for sharing your experience editor75
It seems turnitin may be using those papers unethically after some time (may be), resulting into such a fall in the market

I'm telling you, I did the academon royalty stream about ten years ago, made a couple thousand dollars a year doing so for a few years, and then watched the market dry up nearly completely over the last five years. It's a flat-line now, a joke. Take warning.

One thing you can count on is cheating students being careful not to get caught. Turnitin.com raised the risk of getting caught using pre-written essays through the roof.

Actually as per these resellers, the student can only make use of the papers for help and should not submit them directly. So, the issue of plagiarism is not there if the student follows it.

That is what i can see from their terms and conditions.
So, the question i have is, the frequency of sales of these pre-written papers through such websites...
As per your experience, it seems to be low though...
anyways, as i already shared my few papers with them (i have nothing to loose from this), i will share my experience and will wait before uploading more assignments.

As I pointed out, the precipitous drop in sales puts some serious holes in the already-shaky theory that students were ever actually using the essays as "models."

First of all, please learn how to speak and write in proper English before proclaiming to be a "professional" writer in the English language.

Secondly, I realize that laws (and respect for them) in India are lacking, but don't do business here if you want to be a fuc*in' crook. The ONLY person who has the right to publish and/or sell the work--at ANY time--is the PAYING CLIENT. Understand?


The argument was never that all students who buy essays reference them properly. The argument was--and still is--that not all students who buy essays use them improperly.

In the BU case, 6 out of 7 students who bought essays referenced/cited them properly, which is very telling. Yes, it's a small sample size, but it's the only tangible evidence available.

I don't dispute that a few students use the essays as models-- and that's important, I suppose, to establish a reasonable intention on the part of the seller-- but the numbers outside of that isolated case seem to show a majority who don't.

Again: if the majority of students used the things as intended, pre-written essays would have a steady market value, turnitin.com or no turnitin.com.

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A writer worth his salt will not resell his old assignments. That is an insult to the profession. A writer who sells his model papers knows that the students will only change a bit of the paper and then submit it as his own. I have done the Academon route as well and I eventually pulled out my papers because, as a writer connected with a writing service at the time, the last thing I wanted to have happen was to have the student come back to me claiming a plagiarized paper because the paper I submitted to Academon somehow came to the attention of his teacher through another student.

Personally, I prefer to always write a new paper for the client each time. That way all the source materials are updated. While I will admit to borrowing some old sources for related papers, I make sure that the information that is cross shared is no older than 2 years old. That is a personal policy because professors and teachers prefer to have sources no older than 5 years old in most instances.

With the way that plagiarism programs exist these days, and the fact that after having written over 20,000 papers, I do not doubt that my papers are in some pretty creative student's hands. It is the students who now sell the "original" papers to their friends as "model" papers. So I would not risk putting my old papers out there for any reason. I normally delete them at the end of each term.

If the purchaser is aware that it's a pre-written essay, I'd suggest that it's probably totally "safe" for the writer, but unethical without the permission of the client who commissioned the work originally. If the buyer is unaware that it's a pre-written essay, it's totally dishonest and unethical of the writer and probably also "unsafe" for the writer if he cares about his reputation. It's totally "unsafe" for the purchaser because of services such as "turnitin," which explains why there's no longer really any market at all for pre-written projects. Before plagiarism scanning came of age, some pretty big essay companies made a lot of money selling pre-written essays. (I believe some of them still offer them for sale, but I'd be very surprised to learn that anybody buys them.)

The problem with reselling old assignment papers really comes from the measure of relevance of the content. College students papers tend to lose relevance quite quickly because of the constant evolution of the relevant field written about. Old assignments may no longer contain useful information later on. Unless the writer is willing to update the assignment to make it more suitable to the current users, it may not be a good idea to resell the paper anymore. Nobody will pay for outdated or now irrelevant information contained in an old assignment paper.

The rate of development in all fields makes it impossible to resell old papers these days. No student will be willing to pay for an irrelevant paper as a reference when he can get the same irrelevant response from an AI generated research paper. Keep your papers. It is not worth the printer in it took to make a hard copy anymore.

Actually, many if not most old, pre-written essays, especially in basic undergraduate courses, are probably more usefull than AI-generated essays on the same topics. For example, the content of 101-level courses in Economics, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology (etc.) hasn't changed very much, if at all, in decades. Therefore, a (good) old essay on basic theory in all of those fields would probably provide a much better model for anybody hoping to learn how to write a good essay than anything generated by AI, regardless of when those two essays were produced. Obviously, neither can be submitted for credit (for different reasons), but at least a (good) old essay might demonstrate some decent scholarship, whereas an AI-generated essay is completely devoid of meaningful substantive content, regardless of having been created more recently.