Is using our service cheating?

How to use one of our essays, legitimately:

If you use our model answer in the same way that you would use a journal, newspaper article, question-and-answer study book or past paper, there is absolutely nothing dishonest in what you are doing. Our service can be used honestly. If you do your own 100% original work and your own research, using our answer as a guideline, then this is no different from finding a journal article that deals with all the points you need to make in your essay.

We do understand that some students will use our work dishonestly. This is because there are a lot of essay companies who permit students to simply pass off the work as their own, and so a minority of students confuse us with those companies and assume we offer the same service. We also know that because our work is 100% original and plagiarism free, there is little we can do to regulate that misuse. But we truly believe that a student who uses our work properly - as a guideline for their own research and writing - will benefit from our service a great deal more than a student who just hands in the work as if it were their own - they're the real essay cheats!

Our service teaches you to write great essays, and you should not feel that you are acting at all dishonestly by asking for the help that you need, provided that you do use our service properly.

So why has this industry acquired a cheat service reputation?

Possibly because insufficient research has been carried out by the media and academic establishments as to how custom essay writing is intended to be used. It was certainly never intended that custom written work supplied by us should be passed off as the student's own work by essay cheats. It would be very foolish, apart from morally wrong, for a student to do this as they would certainly be caught and punished. University tutors are not fools, they would instantly recognise the superior quality of the work a student has bought, just as they would if they copied from a guidebook, and the student who misuses the service still has to face examinations for the majority of their work so how could it ultimately help to use custom writing in this way? This unfortunate assumption made by universities and the media is preventing the honest students from taking advantage freely and openly with academic approval of an invaluable service.

How can a student benefit from using an essay service?

Purchased from a reputable British company like UKEssays.com can help a student to see precisely how an academic essay should be researched and written. It is much better than a generic guide because it is written with a specific customer's request as its prime directive.

Is using custom essay writing ever cheating?

Yes, if you try to pretend that the work is your own but that is also true if you copy from or paraphrase a textbook or get a friend to write for you (which often happens).

Are custom essays writing services legal?

Of course they are legal - the provision of written help is a long established academic tradition and if they were banned then all published guide books would have to be banned, too. If an essay cheat chooses to misuse the service it is not the fault of the custom essay writing company any more than the supplier of a textbook can be blamed if an essay cheat copies from it.

Where did custom essays originate?

The idea of the custom essay was pioneered as a professional service by Barclay Littlewood in 2003: the first of his companies was 'Academic Answers Limited'. Mr. Littlewood's company ethos was to legitimise a business which had existed as an underground operation for a great deal of time with students falling prey to disreputable companies, mostly operating from outside the UK, which promised much more than they could ever deliver.

The company attracted a great deal of business and an equal amount of criticism because the honest intention of the company to provide students with guaranteed, authentic, British, expertly-written essays to be used by students as a model for their own work was misinterpreted by the media and academic institutions as a way for lazy students - the essay cheats - to succeed without effort. This was never the intention of the company and now that Mr. Littlewood's business has expanded with growing demand to include flagship sites such as UKEssays.com, the basic company intent remains the same: the provision of quality essays as a guide, not a licence to cheat.

Will my university find out I've used this service?

We comply with the 1998 Data Protection Act, so we cannot tell anybody you've used our service unless we're required by law to do so.

If you've used our service correctly (in the way we demonstrated above) you should have absolutely nothing to worry about!

So, should I use a custom essay writing service?

If you intend to use it correctly, as a guide to how to research and write your own essay then certainly you should consider it, ensuring that you order from a reputable British company like UKEssays.com. However, you should never even think of passing off the custom written essay as your own no matter how tempting it might be. Essay cheats are always found out and you learn only one thing from the experience - not to do it again!