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[quote=Anonymous]So, two things -- first, paying for a paper to be written is not common.  With that said, there is cheating at the area schools -- there was probably cheating at your high school too and there will be cheating as long as there are schools.

Here's why "pay for a paper to be written" is not the norm:

1.  What you generally get is of extremely low quality, and you would be at a risk of, if not failing on the paper, getting a very low grade.  It's not a phalanx of HYP students churning out these papers.

2.  There's no guarantee (there's not a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval in this biz) that you would be getting an original work.  If you get something that has been used before it would be flagged by anti-plagiarism tools such as turnitin.com.

3.  In small classes, teachers become familiar with the writing style of their students and something very different from the norm is a red flag.

4.  If the assignment is something really big (the "term paper" kind of thing), there's often going to be check-in points during which the student needs to show his/her work and be able to talk intelligently about the research.

Are there unethical practices used with regard to papers?  Yes.  Most commonly, where the line is crossed is too much help by a paid tutor or a parent (and even then it's generally not being created from whole cloth by the adult).  Teachers often pick up on that too -- the writing is more sophisticated/different in tone from what shows up on in-class writing assignments like essays on tests.  Many experienced teachers can tell you a story where a parent is complaining about a paper grade and essentially gives away that the parent has written much of the paper and thinks his/her work was not graded highly enough!

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