Term paper writing

It's unethical. There is no debate to be had here. You can't write a paper for someone else.

If the student doesn't write the paper themselves, they learn nothing! Totally unethical for this to go on but I suppose writers have to survive!

I think it is unethical to the max. I mean, it's one more bit of evidence that people seem to value quick fixes and not working hard to attain certain goals or meet certain expectations, and that by looking the other way and silently condoning cheating, the ends justify the means. The point of a research or term paper is to teach students various skills, such as collating facts, forming a theory or thesis, then presenting the thesis backed up with documentation. If Student A hired Writer B to do it for him/her, what does he/she learn? That buying one's way out of a problem is acceptable? That's BS. Pure and simple.

Every one has right to earn the money with the help of his or her abilities, efforts and hard work. It is more than ethical. No food or lunch is free here in this world. Why should a writer write for free? We pay tuition fee for our studies, we go to the clinic of a doctor and we arrange to pay the doctors fee for our health. We pay for water, electricity, gas, and all such commodities. The term paper is an important commodity for the student who needs it. It is ethical act of the student that he should pay thank as well as money which the writer in question demands for, as he selling his abilities like a doctor at clinic, teacher in tuition centre and many of the people in field of their professions. I would like to add that this is ethical if student is not cheating the examiners.

I don't think it is ethical. On the other hand, there have been times that I have been desperate enough to consider it. I have never done it, but I did think about doing it. It is risky for the student to pay a paper. Currently, I am going to the Community College of Denver, and have talked with some of my professors about this. They are catching quite a few students doing this. They have lists of known term papers being sold; a lot of paper writers recycle the same papers over and over again--the first few that buy them can escape; later ones get caught. They also have programs that scan the web for copy and pastes. It is becoming harder and harder for the students to get away with this. As for the writers, outside of the ethical issue, it is bread and butter. What is the difference between writing a paper for a student and writing a speech for the President? If your personal ethics allow you to do it, then it is just another form of commerical writing as far as the writer is concerned. Sad, but true. At the moment, I have a slight issue with this. I have a couple of papers I just wrote for college that I want to put up on the web. So do I lulu them and put a price on them, knowing full well if I don't some kid is just going to copy them so I just as well make a dollar or two. Or do I let them be lost for eternity, despite the fact that they are suitable for a market (my regular market) outside of the college kids. So I have been thinking about the ethics of this, because I want to share this information with my regular audience, but I know some fool kid is just going to copy them--I am not sure what I am going to do yet.