Everyone knows cheating is wrong. But, when an online student is sledging through the hours of work required for final term papers, the morality sometimes seems a little blurry.

Don't be fooled. Not only is submitting someone else's paper unethical, cheating students are also regularly "caught." The About.com Study Tips Guide explains:

"People who write papers to sell often use the same phrases or sentences in many different papers. You could buy a paper that is guaranteed to be "one-of-a-kind," but that paper could still contain phrases from other papers. plagiarism software will pick up on this!"

For a quick reminder of why plagiarism is not ok, see: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Even Think About Buying a Research Paper.