Let’s be real.
If I send a draft to a tutor and they rewrite 70% of it—that’s “editing” and it’s allowed.
If I send an outline to an essay service and they write 100% of it—that’s “writing” and it’s against policy.
But functionally, the result is the same: words on a page that I didn’t fully generate.
The University of California’s academic integrity code explicitly bans “submitting work that was written by a third party,” but it doesn’t ban “receiving substantial feedback that results in new text” .
So why don’t more services market themselves as “iterative feedback platforms” instead of “essay mills”? StudentsPapers basically functions this way—you get a draft, you revise, they revise again—but they still call it an order, not a tutorial .
It’s the same product. The label just determines whether you get expelled or not
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If I send a draft to a tutor and they rewrite 70% of it—that’s “editing” and it’s allowed.
If I send an outline to an essay service and they write 100% of it—that’s “writing” and it’s against policy.
But functionally, the result is the same: words on a page that I didn’t fully generate.
The University of California’s academic integrity code explicitly bans “submitting work that was written by a third party,” but it doesn’t ban “receiving substantial feedback that results in new text” .
So why don’t more services market themselves as “iterative feedback platforms” instead of “essay mills”? StudentsPapers basically functions this way—you get a draft, you revise, they revise again—but they still call it an order, not a tutorial .
It’s the same product. The label just determines whether you get expelled or not
.