WWCOJD--Shady Writing Job

ya know. if it were me. I'd take it, keep looking and drop it like a bad habit as soon as I found something else.

food, clothing, shelter first.

Times have changed alot since I was in HS and college.  Any student thinking they can get away with plagiarism nowadays are kidding themselves.  Most schools and universities now use services such as http://turnitin.com.   That has evolved into other services such as iThenticate and crosscheck which are now starting to be used by publishers of scientific/scholarly material.  In order to "fool" these systems you have to replace about every other word.  By that time I'm not so sure it is plagiarism any more.  ;-)

With that in mind, I'm surprised there are companies like the one Triya mentions still in business.  Doubt they will be for long!

Like Jen said, if you're desperate, then do what you gotta do. But I wouldn't work for a company that basically aids and abets plagarism, which is against the rules of EVERY academic institution in this country. It'd be one thing if you were taking students' papers and editing them, etc, but to flat out write them; no way, I wouldn't do it.

I'll weigh in here with perhaps a different perspective. I serve on the Academic Integrity Board at my school. In that role I help adjudicate cases of cheating and plagarism. We rely on several tools to catch those who would turn in the work of others as their own.

When we catch a plagarist, we do not care about the source of their stolen material. What matters to us is that the plagarist or cheater actually violated out Academic Integrity guidelines. In other words, what people do with the material they use to compile their papers is up to them. If they do something hinky, it is them we're going to bust.

Kids will turn in whole pages lifted straight from other web pages, and vocabulary that is clearly not their own.

I suppose my bottom line is that it is a job that will pay your rent and put food on the table. It's an unplesant job to be sure, but times are tough...

Take it if you think you can stand it, but keep looking. 
We're all rooting for you.

Tough decision - morality vs not going on welfare or starve and live on the streets.

Your welfare is first and foremost important.

You have many choices:
A). The job that you described with good money.
B). Working 3rd shift cleanup in a food processing plant which pays less.
C). Working in a fast food joint and getting paid well under your potential.
D). Making a mint by selling your body to strangers for "services".
E). Remain unemployed until you get the "right" job.
F). Other (and there are so many to list).

I don't believe there really is a moral issue here, personally, from the job that you have a chance to get.

A big *MELON PRESS* to you, do what you need to do, and make the most of it.

Hoping the best for you, Yanti.