Uberessay.com – Not your average essay website.

I’d like to take a moment to put a spotlight on a project that Hannah and I have been working on over this past month: Uberessay.com. Uberessay.com is a student resource and writing community that was founded by Hannah and I on the basis of promoting students to share their well-written papers and essays, as well as becoming a resource that students can refer to when writing their own papers for quality, insightful papers.

Although I’m no English and/or writing-based major at my school, I’ve always been sort of in love with writing… Okay, so I may sound quite nerdy, but it’s the truth. Somehow, when I’m writing an essay or paper, I will always find a way to be inspired or be somewhat excited about what I’m writing: in doing so, I allow myself to become fully enwrapped by whichever topic or subject I’m writing about, and thus actually learn something from writing. I may not have the best writing skills, and maybe I do kind of suck at citing correctly and using MLA-format the right way, but at least I still enjoy writing!

And that’s really just the point of Uberessay.com. Personally, when Hannah approached me with the idea, I definitely and instantly agreed to help co-found it, because it’s something that I hope everyone who wants to be apart of can become a member of. My hopes for Uberessay are to foster a community that promotes discussion and fosters learning for all contributors and readers, as well as to develop a reliable and decent resource that we can all (in the future, hopefully) refer to when writing our own papers.

So, if you’ve written a great essay this past year – and anytime in your college career – please consider submitting it! And, if you have any feedback, please let me know. I would love to hear it! :)

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  • Hey!
    First I'd like to thank you for the really awesome comment that you left. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who feels that way. And I thought that the spam comments were hilarious, so I approved them.

    And it's awesome that you're promoting our website. SHIT! I want it to grow a lot. I really need to get on advertising and leaving flyers. I've been having some feminine problems... sorry TMI, but needless to say I haven't gotten around to it. I'll let you know when I do!
  • Roz
    Hey Akhila! You're right - a website like this has the potential to become a source for cheating. However, I think that the Internet in general, for those who want to plagiarize, is a source of plagiarism anyway - those who are looking to cheat will look for websites, writings, etc. on the Internet for their essays.

    Even so, yes, we've taken some measures to prevent this: for all PDFs of the essays, we've password-protected them so that one may not copy nor print the PDFs (while this does not completely prevent plagiarism, we have taken these measures to make plagiarism more difficult). Also, our Terms and Conditions states -
    If the essay you submit is not your own in any context, you will be banned from the site and your essay rejected. If your essay is not found with infringement of Creative Commons copyright laws, your essay will be protected under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License.
  • Cool idea, but I have to ask: how do you prevent plagiarism? It really seems to me that this might make plagiarism much easier..
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