Falsified Papers

In the era of mass media, maintaining some type of original thought has proven a greater challenge than many people in today's society appear to be willing to take up. The idea than one would deliberately falsify documents and present findings on a given topic is astounding to me. In the spirit of full disclosure however, I'm sure I've trampled a few original thoughts myself, unintentionally of course. I'd have a very difficult time buying another person's work for the simple reason that I find myself so often at odds with the opinions of my peers. The chance of finding and accepting a suitable paper to purchase would then be very difficult; I'd probably end up disagreeing with it. The answer to would I purchase a paper and present it as my own is no.

Firstly as previously mentioned I'd have great difficulty finding and accepting a suitable paper. I've looked on the internet in the interest of research and found several sources from where one may purchase a research paper. Predominantly they claim original research and professional writers. One example of this is Term-paper-Writers.com. According to the website one supplies the research notes and they produce an original document. (Term-Paper-Writers.com, 2012) The reason this cannot work is it's not my writing style nor is it my work. Each author however amateur still has style, and it's a large part of what makes something one's own work.

The detection sites which are available to educators are in my estimation irrelevant to anyone who answered the question in the negative to begin with. If these detection services act as a deterrent to those who said they'd at least think about (buying a paper) then I say Bravo! However, consider this little bit of sagely advice from my father:

If my thought on a topic was 1/1 million on a planet with 6.8 billion it means there are potentially seven thousand people who think like me. (D.A. Smith personal communication, June 2005). Avoiding plagiarism is simple concept "Authors do not present the work of another author as if it were their own work". (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 2010 p. 170) But if dear old Dad is right, could I be over written with words so similar that it becomes plagiarism? Or that so many papers on the same subject have been written that similarity fools the system? My guess is unlikely but possible.