More than two persons can have the intent to break the rules.
Labeling the original author as a plagiarist, or whatever other label that suits it better, doesn’t exclude the blaming of the student who commissioned the word.
I would object in most cases.
I think it would be acceptable only if the modified document didn’t looked like the template, which make the template mostly useless.
I think it is easier to picture the problem with this if the work of another student was used.
If the modifications are enough to distinguish both works, it is probably easier to go for the original sources.
Would it be enough to submit an unfinished work?
For example if the arguments were laid out, but not structured into a text.
If the answer is no, then the original author knows that it will be used as submitted.
This article said it was a Chinese student applying to an American university, so the supervised essay is not so easily arranged.
I’m not sure if the writing and oral abilities are very strongly correlated.
Apart from the cases were the difference between them is too high, it is not obvious that they are not the work of the same person.
I also don’t think a supervised essay would show the same quality as an unsupervised one for most students.
ps.: Can you separate you next replies into different paragraphs, it is hard to read and reply to it without a clear marking where a new idea starts.
