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One of my friends has a paper due this Friday. She's done ALL of the research and the two of us watched the two movies that relate to it. She asked me for help writing it and I said sure. She's a year older than me, but I'm pretty good at writing papers minus the mechanics. So if she were to write it, I were to rewrite what she writes and make it sound smarter (possibly cutting out a lot of stuff she writes and adding it stuff that I think would be better), and then she were to fix my mechanical errors, would that be wrong? I know it wouldn't neccessarily be cheating, but in the long run would it be wrong.
In our eyes it just seems like me proofreading and telling her what to fix, but it also kind of seems like I'm screwing her over by not letting her do it all herself. The only reason it feels wrong though is because she offered to pay me - it makes me feel as if I'm writing it even though I'd just be 'smarting it up'. Now I don't plan on accepting the money, so it's not wrong, is it?
If you are re-writing her essay, it is cheating. Proof-reading consists of pointing out errors, not telling the person how to fix them, or fixing them for the person.
Essays should be her interpretation of the material in her words. You can guide her by telling her if a sentence is run-on or if a paragraph drags, but to actually do any of the writing is cheating.
It scares me that the first two posters disagreed. I don't understand how this can be acceptable.
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all right, thanks for answering.
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