Academic Ghost Writer

Knowledge is very important to all people nowadays especially for students who want to enhance their life with education. Assignments test more than knowledge, they test a student's ability to communicate that knowledge effectively and one significant component of communication is the ability to write. If a student must work in tandem with a ghost writer, then that student is essentially admitting that they lacks the ability to communicate knowledge in written form. It is quite simply, cheating, lying, plain and simple about the quality of your accomplishments. The student is turning in work they didn't complete personally and attempting to fraudulently earn a grade for that work.

Submitting an essay written by someone else is no different than having someone else sit an exam for them. One argument used in support of using professional essay writers is that it's no different than the assistance a student might receive from a tutor. Presuming the tutor is ethical, that is simply not true. A good tutor will always take the position of responding to a student's work, never generating it personally. While the tutor might provide examples, these should be generic and should never directly preview work the student is expected to accomplish. For example, if a student came to me for help with an essay on President Reagan, I might show a sample outline for a biography of Charles Dickens - this would help the student understand how a good biography paper should be structured, but it wouldn't give them a jumpstart on the essay at hand. When a student does bring work to a tutor, the tutor should help identify errors but should never correct them personally; rather, the student should be guided to learn the issues involved and make the corrections.

This is very different from the role of a professional essay writer, who is actually doing some or all of the work for the student. One of the more far-fetched arguments that I've read is that a student who hires a professional essay writer is demonstrating skills in outsourcing and is replicating the realities of the business world much more exactly than if them wrote the paper personally. There are a number of flaws in this logic. If the skill to be evaluated is outsourcing, rather than essay writing, then that should be made clear in the course syllabus. That would quickly result in a devaluing of the degrees granted by any university that allowed this practice.