“Guaranteed To Meet The Grade You Order, Or You Get Your Money Back”
The Week Middle East|April 22, 2017

The rise of essays-to-order has raised concerns about the lack of regulation around this growing field, and the corresponding devaluation of degrees. Simon Usborne investigates the websites that offer a 100,000-word doctoral thesis for £82,238.

“Guaranteed To Meet The Grade You Order, Or You Get Your Money Back”

It takes about three minutes to order a final dissertation for an English literature degree at the UK Essays website. I pick my country, subject and required grade. I go for a 2:1, choose a length – let’s say 5,000 words – a seven-day deadline, and watch the price calculator hit £687 (or £1,236 for a two-day turnaround). Click “next step” and I can enter my topic before being matched with a suitable writer, who will produce an essay “personalised to my requirements”. It comes with a series of promises. “The work we produce is guaranteed to meet the grade you order, or you get your money back.” It will also be “100% free from plagiarism” – and on time.

All of this would be totally legal and, the owners of UK Essays insist, ethical, too – because what its customers are definitely not supposed to do is submit the work as their own. “Our essays… are the best, most useful study aid in the world,” says Daniel Dennehy, chief operating officer at All Answers, the Nottinghamshire company that owns UK Essays. “They increase any student’s understanding of a topic, which subsequently improves their ability to write an excellent, unique answer of their own.”

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