I used to write papers for college students for money. It was great money and I didn't feel bad about it at all. I only quit doing it because my real profession became busy enough and profitable enough I didn't need the extra work.
Many classes these days assign papers because they feel obligated to. They aren't papers designed to stimulate students minds or teach them anything new and useful. They're basically busywork and grade-padder.
Plus, there's a lot of paper writing for classes that aren't likely to have anything to do with the student's job performance after they graduate. For instance, one of my best customers was going to school to be a radiologist. The chance that her in-depth analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh would ever be needed on the job were incredibly slim. By paying me to write about Gilgamesh, she had time to study harder on the things that had something to do with radiology.
The paid writers also aren't going to make enough of a difference on most people's grades overall to pass someone who's clearly unfit for their profession. I don't worry about having my MRI read by the radiologist I wrote for because I know that she still had to take the tests herself. The test grades would weed out the people that genuinely didn't know the material that was the real meat of the course. The paid-for paper would never add up to be enough of a difference in most classes to make much of a difference grade point wise for most students. It might slide a class or two from one letter grade to the next if the scores were close enough, but overall, over the course of a student's whole academic career, it wasn't going to make a big change. They weren't paying to go from D students to B students. They were paying to stay B students with a bit less hassle.
Real world professionals delegate. Professionals don't do every job in the office themselves. Your doctor likely doesn't do all the billing, insurance paperwork, radiology, lab work, admissions forms,wheeling the patients from their room to the operating room, etc. personally. They pay someone else to do a lot of those tasks while they focus on the part that they're uniquely qualified for. It's often more practical and efficient to pay someone else to work for you. Why not start being realistic about that at the college level?
Many classes these days assign papers because they feel obligated to. They aren't papers designed to stimulate students minds or teach them anything new and useful. They're basically busywork and grade-padder.
Plus, there's a lot of paper writing for classes that aren't likely to have anything to do with the student's job performance after they graduate. For instance, one of my best customers was going to school to be a radiologist. The chance that her in-depth analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh would ever be needed on the job were incredibly slim. By paying me to write about Gilgamesh, she had time to study harder on the things that had something to do with radiology.
The paid writers also aren't going to make enough of a difference on most people's grades overall to pass someone who's clearly unfit for their profession. I don't worry about having my MRI read by the radiologist I wrote for because I know that she still had to take the tests herself. The test grades would weed out the people that genuinely didn't know the material that was the real meat of the course. The paid-for paper would never add up to be enough of a difference in most classes to make much of a difference grade point wise for most students. It might slide a class or two from one letter grade to the next if the scores were close enough, but overall, over the course of a student's whole academic career, it wasn't going to make a big change. They weren't paying to go from D students to B students. They were paying to stay B students with a bit less hassle.
Real world professionals delegate. Professionals don't do every job in the office themselves. Your doctor likely doesn't do all the billing, insurance paperwork, radiology, lab work, admissions forms,wheeling the patients from their room to the operating room, etc. personally. They pay someone else to do a lot of those tasks while they focus on the part that they're uniquely qualified for. It's often more practical and efficient to pay someone else to work for you. Why not start being realistic about that at the college level?