To steal ideas from one person, would be plagiarism, to steal
ideas from many is called research... 15 November 2012 A BBC
investigation has revealed the growing trade in essay writing
services which offer to provide students with custom written
work which they can simply add their name to and hand in to
university and college tutors as their own work. Whilst these
services claim to provide sample work for research purposes only
an undercover journalist has found that students are encouraged
to hand this work in as their own. These recent findings concur
with research carried out by PlagiarismAdvice.org which also
found that in many cases work provided is of poor quality and
has more than likely been taken from a range of web sources
without proper attribution. The widespread use of plagiarism
detection software, such as Turnitin within universities means
that students using these services are not only likely to be out
of pocket financially, but are taking a huge risk with their
academic careers. Most univers