When some university students start lagging behind or need extra help with their studies, unfortunately, they turn to paper mills to buy an Essay or a Dissertation. This can be detrimental to those students. Buying a Dissertation? Or Buying an essay? Beware! You could ruin your career by doing so. Even if the writing service is able to give you a Plagiarism report or a Low Turnitin score for a paper or dissertation that you are buying, you may still be caught for plagiarism. Universities have many other ways, in addition to Turnitin to catch cases of Plagiarism. This guide explains all those methods and makes a strong case against buying an Essay or a Dissertation.

1. Why you should NEVER
buy a Dissertation / Essay?
Buying an Essay / Dissertation can be
detrimental to your career. Read how?
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2. In this guide
 What you do not know about Essay /
Dissertation writing services?
 Financial reasons not to buy an Essay /
Dissertation
 How can you be caught for Plagiarism?
 You are not alone! Places to find help

3. A Note
A write up of this presentation is available
at:
http://bit.ly/17ZdVde

4. What you don’t know about
writing services?
The writing services have a disclaimer,
which reads something like,
“you are not allowed to use any part of
the essay or dissertation to submit as
your own”
You are certain to find this in the
“Disclaimer” or “Terms & Conditions”

5. What does the DISCLAIMER mean?
“…it is illegal to copy even a
sentence from the essay or
dissertation that you buy because
the company owns the copyright
to the essay / dissertation”

6. Financial Reasons
Any reasonable writing company will charge you
from £2000 for a Dissertation and
minimum of £250 for an essay for
something…
YOU CANNOT USE
There are affordable , legitimate ways to
get more help. See slide 16

7. Risk of Getting Caught for Plagiarism
A typical story:
 Buy an essay / dissertation
 Work on it
 Change some details and…
GET CAUGHT FOR PLAGIARISM
See how universities catch students…

8. How Universities catch Plagiarism
Turnitin
Viva
Language

9. Turnitin
Software that compares your work to more
than:
 20 Billion webpages
 220 Million Student submitted essays /
reports / dissertations
 100 Million Journals and Books

10. Turnitin
Can you be sure that you won’t be caught,
IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE THE WORK
YOURSELF

11. Viva
Myth: Universities only call students for Viva (verbal
discussion) of their work, in case of PhD
Fact: Lecturers are free to call you for a viva for an essay,
an assignment or a dissertation
Will you be able to defend it,
IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE THE WORK
YOURSELF

12. Language
Fact:
Lecturers are free to call you for a meeting, where
they may make you write a piece, just to check your
language capabilities
Will you be able to Replicate the language from a
bought paper / dissertation,
IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE THE WORK
YOURSELF

13. Consequences of getting caught for
PLAGIARISM
 Expulsion from the University
 Not being able to finish your course
 Social consequences (feeling of shame in
front of family, friends and peers)

14. BUYING A PAPER / DISSERTATION?
CAN YOU
REALLY TAKE
THE RISK?

15. Our Director says:
“It's such a shame that sometimes masters
students are not able to get as much support
in their coursework and dissertation. Due to
this, some students go ahead and buy their
papers or dissertation and, more often than
not, get caught for plagiarism”

16. Where to get more help
 Lecturer: Discuss your problems, they may offer extra
help
 Student Support Officer: They are meant to be your
liaison and can point you in the right direction
 SOLID FUNDAMENTALS:
Our mentoring is designed to help students do their own
work better and achieve higher marks and their true
potential

17. By this time, you know
 The risks of buying a paper / dissertation
 The ways universities can catch a student
for plagiarism
 The financial reasons not to buy a paper /
dissertation
 Where to go for more help

18. Finally
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