Hmm…if there is anyone with the intent of breaking rules it is the student who hands in the work of others. Would you object if, not having the wit to lay out an essay himself, a student resorted to such a service and then paraphrased the document, so as to employ it as a useful template, adding or deleting information along the way? That would at least be a learning experience and give the student some authority over the work. But more likely they just hand it in unaltered. I’m thinking branding the original essay author as a plagiarist goes too far. Fraud perhaps? Not knowing with certainty that the student will submit the document unaltered may make that a difficult charge to lay. Ultimately it is the student who commits such a fraud. A supervised essay will bring these students undone. Even an interview will make a person wonder why a student who writes so eloquently does not have the same oral expression. Perhaps it is also the teacher, who knows damn well that this cannot be the work of this student, who is also a party to fraud (by a neglect to expose the perpetrator)? You decide.
