English Tutor Fights Plagiarism with Launch of Online Essay Coaching Service

by johnalexwood | March 22, 2008 at 08:34 am
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English tutor Grant Hudson


No need to cheat: new Internet resource helps students write their own essays

East Grinstead, UK:
A Sussex-based English tutor, Grant Hudson, has set up an internet
service to advise students on essay writing in an attempt to combat
plagiarism.

"Plagiarism has become a plague and one which the
teaching profession seems powerless to control [where] writing an essay
was no more than an exercise in cut and paste," writes Peter Williams,
editor of Information World Review (Europe's leading newspaper for the
information industry) in a recent IWR blog.

The Inner Circle Writers' Group
offers several different services to help students with school and
university English essays so that they will be able to avoid the
impulse to cheat and buy essays from unscrupulous companies.

"Services
are available now whereby someone will write an essay for a school or
university student on demand," Mr. Hudson said. "All the student has to
do is send in an essay question and someone else does all the work.
They charge a lot of money, but some students pay because they worry
about their own abilities to reach certain grades. This is against any
school's or university's regulations, and a student who makes use of
such a service is risking expulsion."

"As well as being
unethical, expensive and lazy, having someone else actually write your
essay for you is pointless, as the education you're receiving serves no
purpose."

Though plagiarism has become much easier with the rise
of the World Wide Web, the official examining boards in England have,
until recently, only been able to discover less than one percent of
students actually copying essays directly from other sources. Now, new
software enables universities, in particular, to track down the
originals and so catch the plagiarist.

"The problem is that new
companies, often based overseas, have found a way around this by
offering to write the essay from scratch for the student, which is very
difficult to trace," says Mr. Hudson, who also works as the Head of the
English Department at Greenfields School in Forest Row, East Sussex. "I
decided to tackle this by setting up the Inner Circle Writers' Group
which helps with essay coaching, teaching students by e-mail how to
write better essays for much less than these other companies charge.
Hopefully, students will turn to services like mine and learn to
improve their own skills rather than panicking and seeking what seems
like an easy way out which could lead to disaster and a wasted
education."

The Inner Circle Writers' Group is one of the UK's
most effective and ethical groups in providing tailor-made essay
reviews, research material, business letters, proofreading, on-line
tutoring and much more to customers, worldwide. The Inner Circle
Writers' Group does not do the work for their clients, but it does make
their work as easy and as painless as possible.

For more information, please contact:

G. P. Hudson B.A. (Hons.)
Inner Circle Writers' Group
P.O. Box 546
East Grinstead
West Sussex
RH19 4XJ

+44 (0)7738 447764
admin@innercirclewritersgroup.com
http://www.innercirclewritersgroup.co.uk

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