Our two part series "Using credit to get credit" continues now. Yesterday, KX News showed you how we purchased a custom written term paper from an online site.

Today, Jason Torreano shows us what happened when we took the paper to area university professors.

We bought it. We printed it-and we took it to some local professors for their thoughts. Their reactions were unanimous.

Jamieson Ridenhour/Prof. of English and Chair of Humanities: "If I paid almost $200 for this I'd be pretty angry."


Rebecca Chalmers/Prof. of English: "You were robbed."


Jane Schreck/Associate Professor English at BSC: "Your money was not well spent if you wanted a good college grade on this."

Our 10 page, $137 paper didn't slip by them. They say there were some glaring errors and red flags along the way.

Rebecca Chalmers/Prof. of English: "At times it's overly wordy. At times, sentences simply don't make sense and then there are a number of distracting grammar, punctuation and grammatical errors."

Jamieson Ridenhour/Prof. of English and Chair of Humanities: "It feels like a wikipedia article on Martin Luther King and my first impulse upon reading that first paragraph would be to type a couple of those sentences into google."

Type it into google, or put it through anti-plagiarism software and-

Jane Schreck/Associate Professor English at BSC: "The report says 28% of it has problems with citation."

All the professors we spoke with said googling a couple questionable paragraphs would have likely led to the same information.

Jane Schreck/Associate Professor English at BSC: "I found the exact same words in this paper that I found on another source online. Interestingly enough, this was a contest winner from an essay contest at a middle school."


I called Best Term Paper and asked them what could be done about our plagarized paper. They offered to re-write the paper at no additional charge

You should know, buying a paper isn't illegal - but passing one off as your own violates a whole lot of rules. All the professors we spoke with say if students are caught plagiarizing, they fail the class. Jason Torreano, KX News.

If a student is found guilty of plagiarism at University of Mary, the charge is put on the students permanent record. watch the video | save this article / add to your favorites list