The multiple boycott of essay writing services: How long can this services rampant in universities?

“Many students struggle to get all their essays done in time. This is especially true during finals when professors all have their deadlines around the same time. That’s where an online essay writing service like Australian Writings.com can really help. With us, you are guaranteed to get the quality essay writing help you need at cheap, student prices.

We are an experienced, safe, and legit essay writing service that can assist you with all your school, college, and university essay writing needs. If you want to buy an essay and ask our essay writers “Write my essay for me,” you’ve come to the right place.”

(https://www.australianwritings.com/essay-help/)

Faced with such an attractive advertisement, many students who are busy with exams and assignments may be tempted, some may even contact them. But it should be pointed out that, this impulsive action may impede the learning process or even the graduation.

A month ago, Neal, a student from Monash University who was tortured by his midterm assignment scanned this advertisement on the internet. It seemed like a life-saver to him. He was busy with internship and had no time and no energy to deal with the assignment at that time. So he had to ask help from others, an essay writing service company called “Australia essay writing”. But when he received his finished product, he was furious.

“It is all cheating! The attitude of customer service people was so kind and warm at the start. They told me that they will finish my 2,500 words essay in three days and I need to pay them $500. But when I got my finished essay, I found it was totally translated by software because there were so many grammar mistakes, not to mention the structure.”

“ I tried to debate with them and a staff member said he will modify my essay but I had to pay them another $200. I was so angry but scared to report them. Finally, I had to rewrite it by myself and I will never ask help from others anymore.”

Neal said angrily. This experience broke his heart, but because of his inappropriate behavior, he scared to tell the cheating to his friends or school and had to bear the cost by himself.

Traps in essay writing service

Searching the key words of “essay writing service” online, “Australia essay writing” is top-ranked. In their introduction, it says:“We are the biggest registered abroad company and only provide the best service. We have abundant writing resource and special channel, it is convenient for us to look up all kinds of literature and we are familiar with all kinds of references (such as Harvard Author-Date,APA,MLA etc.).”

“Due to January, 2016, we have written one hundred and ninety million words for overseas students. We have 800 staffs and our service includes essay writing, exam notes providing, slide making and presentation, which contains all the subjects in the university of UK and Australia. Every essay is written by professional staff, so you do not need to worry about the quality.”

To investigate the truth of this advertisement, I pretended to be a commerce student. I asked them to write a 2,000 word essay about international business relationship and asked about the price. The customer service agent replied quickly, she told me that it takes $15 every hundred words to hire a master student, and the essay written by professional teacher is $25 every hundred words. The essay will be finished in time and modified freely.

But when asked to provide the contact information of the writer in case the essay was unsatisfactory, the service ensured that they will modify the essay until satisfaction but still refused to provide any contact information.

Some students who are familiar with this process told me that the online essay writing service has become a gray industry in the overseas students’ circle, and is developing rapidly on all kinds of social platform, such as QQ, Wechat and Weibo. It exists in almost every university, but differ in size. Some are personal groups which only accept customers in their own school. Others are larger teams like Australia essay writing.

The writers only contact their customers online. Most of writers are students from other universities. Their real ability (university, GPA, IELTS) decide their salary. The price of excellent writer can be three times of the ordinary one. But most of the essays written by them are translated by software and filled with mistakes. When being asked for modify or refund, they will not respond anymore or even disappear. So most students who hire others to write have the same experiences as Neal.

Warnings from the Universities: students hire others to write will be punished severely

Recently, thirteen students from Geelong campus in Deakin University were expelled for hiring others to write their assignments in the exam. And other universities in Australia are also engaged in the rank of surveying and fighting against this behavior.

Beverley Oliver, the vice-president of Deakin University, emailed to all the students in the school to inform the cheating behavior of these thirteen students. She said that the university will not tolerate any cheating, and they will implement strict system to check and supervise the violation of academic integrity. She also warned the students that the essay writing service may lead them to be expelled from school. For international students, their visa will be revoked.

The official who was responsible for this event said that, in recent years, more and more students finish their assignment by hiring others. It is not difficult to find out this kind of essay writing services in the website like Gumtree. Although the school has strengthened the management it is still difficult to eliminate this behavior from the root. Most of the university in Australia have been impacted by the essay writing services.

(The rank of universities which were influenced by essay writing service)

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In Australian National University, the vice-president, Marnie Hughes Warrington said that among the 20,000 registered students in school, those were caught by cheating is few. It is impossible for those website which say their essay will not be discovered by school. Once the student was caught cheating by school, he must be punished. The worst one may be expelled. It is unworthy for students to risk such a big dangerous. The Australian National University will never tolerate their students’ cheating or plagiarism behavior, no matter local students or international students.

Lawyer reminds: Hiring others to write may break the cheating laws

David Caruso, director of litigation law unit in Adelaide University said:“ The student who used to hire others to write their essay may have broken the law of cheating, which means gaining benefits and profits through fraud. From the point of the relationship between student and school, the behavior of hiring is a bit misleading.”

“Despite essay writing services contribute to academic fraud, the relevant departments are still lacking in regulations of forbidding this service organization. Considering to the consumer protection law and the criminal law, it is difficult to prosecute this essay writing service company. Because there is no direct relationship between the universities and the producer of this website.” He said.

And the lawyer and fraud expert Robert Wyld indicated that according to NSW criminal law, the maximum sentence of fraud and forgery are both carry imprisonment for 10 years. Once the student who uses this service is caught, in a serious case, he will probably face legal sanctions.

(http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/students-buying-assignments-online-could-be-charged-with-fraud-20141111-11kfjt.html)

Advice from peers: study for yourself and study by yourself

Although essay writing service is reporting a rapid growth in demand for overseas students, most of the students show that they will resolutely oppose this behavior.

Yaoxing Su, a student from the University Of Melbourne, majors in accounting, said: “I think essay writing services is a commercial act which is a kind of cheating in some degree. I never think of hiring others to write my essay. It is my own problem if I can not finish it and I must work hard. We should respect our teacher and our study.”

And another student from Melbourne University, Han Yu, master of information technology considered that the purpose of assignment writing is to learn knowledge and test himself. There is no meaning of study if he finishes it by others’ help. Others can do, he also will do. Maybe he can do better. Some signature activities which aim to appeal students to reject essay writing service and act in good faith will be held by him and his friends during the stage of final exam.

Along with the increasing number of Chinese students studying in Australia year by year, there is a huge gap between the quality of these students. And the essay writing service is more and more common, even form an industrial chain.

According to the investigation, the reason for the popularization of this service is related to “Tolerant entry and strict exit” policy of foreign school. Many students who are rich in money but poor in ability want to get a university degree without working hard. So they have to ask help from others, usually show up as hiring others to finish their homework or copying online essays directly. The lack of credit consciousness leads to their “Drop-outs” crisis.

On the other hand, for other students who have too many assignments and too busy schedule, the essay writing service is their best choice. This behavior will not only influence themselves, but also impact the overall enrollment rates of Chinese students.

So cherish the study opportunity and far away from essay writing services. Do not let the sudden impulse to be the whole life stains.