I love their advice on how to avoid getting caught:
Astute advice. An admission can never be taken back. Also, it takes a lot of work to prove you cheated. They may not have the motivation or the resources to follow through on it.
(BTW, that advice is just as good if you're accused of any other crime. The first thing you say to the nice police officer should be "I'm sorry, but I really can't talk to you if I don't have my lawyer present."
2. Only use a custom written paper, pre-written papers are easy for teachers to track down.
Ungrammatical, but increasingly accurate. Schools have had no choice but to fight back. But now, thanks to CheatingResearch.com, only poor and working-class kids will get caught!
3. If you have gotten "D"s all semester, let your writer know. If you get an A+ on the final after a pattern like this, a red flag will be raised in the teacher’s mind. If the teacher does ask why this paper is so much better, just say that you felt badly about how you slacked off in the early part of the course, and really went the extra mile to make up for it with this paper.
That's misleading. Working extra-hard on a paper will make it better, but it won't teach you to use the semicolon, the subjunctive, or Turabian footnote formats. It won't smooth out your transitions, or alter your habitual working set of verbs and adjectives.
I've done some grilling in my time. One of my favorites: "How did you go about researching that?" An underappreciated fact of intellectual life is that research methods are habitual and strongly individual. One person will always start by reading two or three encyclopedia entries, or the Britannica micropaedia and macropaedia. Another will pull a few representative number ranges from the card catalog, then go see what's on the shelves in those locations. Another will find the most recent definitive study, and work from the references in it. Some always use periodicals. Some never reference anything that isn't hardbound. Some never reference hardcopy sources. Et cetera.
Another thing about research methods is that people can explain them: "Two or three encyclopedia entries will give me a rough idea of what's what in this topic, so I don't waste a lot of time in backwaters." "Take the card catalog's word on something? No way. I want to go see it for myself." And so forth.
This company's rough draft and revision system will show two different states of a paper. Their advice will teach the student to read through the finished paper and familiarize himself with its main points. What they won't do is tell the student the order in which the research was done, and the logic behind the successive choices of methods and materials.
And here are my follow-up questions: "Where in the library did you find that? How high was the shelf it was on?" "What color is this book? How big is it? Do you remember anything else about it?"
4. If you are accused, offer to show the teacher a rough draft of your work. (Don’t expect to get away with it if you buy a paper from a site that doesn’t give you rough drafts.)
As others have already pointed out, if the rough draft's only difference is that it's full of textual errors, it's not going to be all that convincing -- especially if the student's poor grades on earlier papers were the result of structural or logical problems rather than simple typos and other surface-level errors.
5. Only buy papers from companies that check their writers for plagiarism. Many supposedly custom paper companies will sell the same paper over and over, or copy it outright from somewhere else.
What guarantee is there that CheatingResearch.com isn't doing the exact same thing? Come to think of it, I can demonstrate that they already have all those other much-used papers on file: how else could they check their writers for plagiarism?
Another problem with this guarantee is that the only way to find out whether an author plagiarized hardcopy sources is to go and look through all of those sources, and I very much doubt that CheatingResearch.com is going to do that. For all you know, you could be turning in a slightly modified version of something that's as instantly recognizable in your field as "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" or "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?" are in English Lit.
6. Make sure that you understand all the words in your paper. If you get a rough draft filled with words you don’t know, tell the writer.
That's a dicey piece of advice if the paper's about
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon is chock-full of familiar words used in unfamiliar ways. More to the point, the student ought to familiarize himself with the phrases and concepts in the paper. You can understand "new" and "criticism" without having any idea what The New Criticism was. Same goes for knowing "negative" and "capability".
7. Make sure you can briefly state the main argument of the paper and the conclusion.
Excellent advice. All students should be required to do that for their papers.
8. Finally, hold your ground, if you follow all of these steps, there is absolutely no way anyone will be able to prove anything.
Bet me, suckers.
