‘Essays for sale, Essays for sale!’ screamed the headline on the national daily newspaper. The article was written following a growing controversy within the academic circles of the benefits or lack thereof of custom writing within our boundaries. This form of writing service where students receive a form of academic assistance has been placed under scrutiny. It has been argued that students as opposed to merely accessing academic assistance actually look towards custom writing as an avenue of escaping their assignments and researches by placing their burden on writing service experts. On the surface, this argument holds a lot of water but upon closer scrutiny it may be seen that as opposed to such innuendos a custom writing writing service is not a clever guise that basically puts up Essays for sale.
Though the newspaper does in some measure accurately describe the possible disadvantages of custom writing within an academic institution, it completely ignores the reasons that give rise to the phenomenal demand for the writing service. It is not a market where Essays for sale are put up but rather a dialogue process where a writing service expert well versed in a specific profession gives guidance to an eager student and in turn receives feedback from the same student up until such a time that the quality of a given essay satisfies both parties. This process as usually is the norm in custom writing happens under the careful guidance of a support team that facilitates the dialogue between the two parties.
The notion of Essays for sale portrayed by the writer also ignores the level and intensity of hardships that students usually go through while in an academic institution. These hardships alongside pressures emanating from personal experiences at home drive students to seek an academic writing service. These hardships or pressure may include; part time jobs (or at times, full time jobs), pregnancies, lack of quick comprehension abilities in class, health companies amongst an infinite amount of things that may go wrong during any one’s academic lifetime. This creates a vacuum that serves to distance such students from a good grade. Such a vacuum is filled by custom writing. It undertakes to basically provide a writing service that will ensure a student scores highly on a given research paper, improves his overall grade as a result of that, graduates and is thus able to gain a decent job and become a useful member of society.
However, I cannot blind myself to the negative effective effects of custom writing as expressed so explicitly by the author of the article. It is truly a potentially potent source of the development of an ‘Essays for sale’ culture amongst students especially within our universities. This worrying trend needs to be curbed lest the situation worsens. We must seek ways in which the writing service is not prone to abuse and only facilitates genuine cases that require custom writing expertise. This is easier said than done since such a balance is hard to strike.
This state of affairs is a puzzling problem for professors and lecturers yet it must be tackled, Essays for sale within learning institutions are simply unacceptable. This has even prompted some academicians to suggest that should any student be caught buying them Essays for sale or in any way engaging or facilitating the vice then the student should be expelled.