to think you shouldn't sell/buy essays for your degree on eBay...

[alwaysinamuckingfuddle]

Just saw this.

Was a little bit .

Is he/she desperate for money or something?!!!

Report it, you're not allowed to sell electronic documents on ebay.

Anyone buying other people's essays is lazy, stupid, dishonest and deserves to be thrown off their course.

Well given how strict unis are on plagiarism and the fact that they have computer systems which check against a whole host of things including other people's assignments its a pretty stupid thing to consider buying one!

Sadly I have seen people advertising on FB uni groups offering to write essays from scratch The uni is full of rich students who I am sure use this service. I just hope the writer has a distinct style and writes a few on the same topic and they all get caught

Never mind reporting to eBay, the link is a nursing essay. He/she wants reporting to the NMC they could and should get struck off for that.

It's wrong to buy/sell essays and pass it off as your own, but could these essay be used for research purposes

IMO they don't deserve a degree if they are going to use other people's work.

I didn't think electronic documents were banned on eBay? And I can see why this would be something to be struck off for - it could be bought for research purposes.

Can't see, that should say.

Good point flojo

I'm sure that the BACP. would take a very dim view of any attempt by me to sell my counselling essays.

The seller states clearly in the blurb, that they are only for research purposes.

If the person that buys them is stupid enough to use an essay they bought from ebay then they deserve everything they get IMO.

Will report to NMC.

I don't particularly want to be cared for by a nurse who hasn't even studied the subject!

What the hell is going on with everyone to think this is okay?!!!

Why is it wrong to sell copeis of your own essays for someone else's reference? How is it different to going to PubMed? (other than the peer-reviewed journal aspect, so the information is more guaranteed)

There are a lot of bone idle people about. The number of people applying for teaching posts using other people's cover letters and interview lesson plans is shocking.

They will have studied the subject though.

You don't just get set an essay that you won't have had to attend lectures for.

I could sell all my essays for reference purpose. If anyone is stupid enough to copy them, with all new plagiarising technology that there is nowadays, then they would deserve to fail the course.

Anyone would be stupid to buy one. Mthe writer will sell the same essay to more than one person if asked. Unis use plagiarism software now so you have a good chance of been caught.

The seller has 3 available plus other essays for sale. People must be stupid.

But there isn't anything wrong with buying them to read. Plagiarising them, well, anyone stupid enough to do that will get done like a dinner. But to simply add to their knowledge? Not seeing anything unethical about that, or a reason to have the seller struck off.

Just report them to ebay. \link{http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/downloadable.html\Here} is the relevant guidance.

It doesn't violate any of the rules, that I can see.

You aren't allowed to send documents electronically so that's breach of guidelines.

You have to sell and post a physical copy and the seller isn't offering that.

Digital and physical delivery permitted: ?

I might be being naive, but why can't people read other people's essays? It would be a problem if they copied it word for word and presented it as their own work. As a reference text it seems little different from reading a research paper or other piece of someone else's work. If they use it properly and reference extracts/ideas from it, no problem.

You CAN read other people's essays. All first class dissertations went into the library at my uni for a few years.

You just can't pass off someone else's work as your own as that is plagiarism and uni's use sophisticated software to spot this.

Seller doing nothing wrong so get off your reporting trigger finger high horses!

You can only deliver software digitally, not documents.