Helping Versus Cheating

When you ask someone to "help" you by writing part of your paper for you, you're cheating. Getting ideas, feedback, and an extra set of eyes to spot typos is OK. Getting someone to write anything that you later say is your work is cheating.

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Examples of what good writers do:


Examples of what’s CHEATING – (NOT “GETTING HELP”):