selling essays on ebay

bluep

It can also be misleading for those that buy them. An A-grade at one university can be nowhere near an A-grade at another and marks come down to individual preferences of the marker for what school of thought they are "teaching from", what they are looking for in an essay and how students have responded to their particular course.

I think that even using other people's essays as a guide is a mistake in this respect - you should get enough guidance from your specific uni course. As for buying them and copying them - well that's downright daft.

MushyPeas

Hi OP

I think you might find that the essays are actually copyright of the university. For example, if you are an art student, whilst on a course the college you are studying at retains the copyright of your work.

Might be worth checking before you try to sell them.

nightsong

How depressing to need to point out to an 'A' grade student AND someone who marks undergraduate work that the word is spelt 'plagiarism' ...

melancholly

nightsong wrote: »

How depressing to need to point out to an 'A' grade student AND someone who marks undergraduate work that the word is spelt 'plagiarism' ...

ok, fair point, my mistake - although i should point out that when writing something academic i also manage to use capital letters (:eek:) and pay a lot more attention to spelling and grammar than i do on here! i'd sooner not have my spelling and grammatical ability judged too strongly on a rapidly written reply to a post!!

becky004

bluep wrote: »

I think that even using other people's essays as a guide is a mistake in this respect - you should get enough guidance from your specific uni course.

Unfortunately we only get 35 days of lectures to get our degree (over 2-4 years), so the guidance is pretty much non existant. We have the opportunity to take our essays up to be checked twice prior to submission. However it is never the same person that checks it, so one person will say remove this, add that and then the next time its checked its changed back to how it was in the first place.
Also I and many others work full time and have small families, and are doing the study days in our own time. Its also a 40 minute drive each way to the University and when you work 9-5 its difficult to find time to go up when the lecturers are available.
For these reasons I have never had my essays checked before submission, so buying a few of ebay was a great help (for me anyway).
Also the University I study at claim they have some sort of technical scanner that they use to see if the work is a copy of someone elses (is this a fairy story, I am rather gullible!).

babyboo_3

butterfly72 wrote: »

I'm considering selling my old uni essays on ebay. They are all A grade and would be useful for some one as a guide. (Of course I don't support plagerism!). I worked hard on them so why shouldn't I benefit now I've finished uni! On the other hand I feel a bit strange about it.. but not sure why. Has anyone here sold theirs?

Hi
I sell my essays on a site called Academon.

http://www.academon.com/?A=em4rhys

It is completely legal because they sell your papers to people for use as research purposes. Also, most of the people who buy from the site are in USA so not much chance of being found out for plagiarism.

I have made nearly $600 so far.
It is easy to upload your essays, they decided the price to charge poeple for it and you get 50% of that price EVERY time your paper sells (it can be bought over and over..not just once). They even send you an email to tell you when one of your essays has sold.
They send you a cheque for what you are owed every 3 months (only downside is the cheque is in dollars and some banks charge about £5 to bank a foreign cheque)...its always a nice suprise when a cheque arrives from them because it is money for nothing really.


This is VERY easy money and its nice to get something back for all the hard work you put into those essays..go and check it out!

Browntoa

and include a hidden referal link

non referral link

www.academon.com

rustynash

babyboo wrote: »

Hi
It is completely legal because they sell your papers to people for use as research purposes. Also, most of the people who buy from the site are in USA so not much chance of being found out for plagiarism.

hmm, bit contradictory there
i think it is very unscrupulous, people who buy essays and copy them deserve all the punishment they will get. there is plenty of software that checks essays for plagiarism these days, and it searches a back catologue of old essays submitted in the past. so yeah, do what you like, its your future youre messing with

Contains_Mild_Peril

MushyPeas wrote: »

Hi OP

I think you might find that the essays are actually copyright of the university. For example, if you are an art student, whilst on a course the college you are studying at retains the copyright of your work.

Might be worth checking before you try to sell them.

If that were strictly true then no-one in their right mind would ever hand in their best work for creative subjects. However, as with most of UK law, there are potential grey areas.
If a work is produced during class time and using university materials then a university might theoretically have a claim on it, but this theory is, to the best of my knowledge, still untested (that was certainly the case when I was at college a few years ago).
If the work is produced outside teaching hours and using the student's own materials but merely submitted to the university for marking then they have no case for claiming copyright, and I would be willing to bet virtually anything that any waiver to the contrary would be dismissed as an unfair contract not worth the paper on which it's written if such a case were ever to reach a court (not that it would).

babyboo_3

Browntoa wrote: »

and include a hidden referal link

non referral link

www.academon.com

oooo we have a detective in the house...hahah...loser!
i am free to add a referal link seeing as I am providing info for other people to gain from.