Academic Integrity
We tutor, edit and give feedback. We do not write work for submission, and we will not pretend the difference is a technicality.
One line, and it does not move
The work you submit has to be written by you. Everything we offer is built around that constraint rather than around a disclaimer at the bottom of the page. We will teach the material, read what you have written, and tell you plainly what is not working. We will not produce the thing you hand in, in any form, at any price, however the request is worded.
This is not only a matter of principle. A student who submits someone else's work risks a misconduct finding, a failed unit, a withheld award and, for international students, a visa consequence that dwarfs the assignment. The service that sold it to them faces nothing. That asymmetry is the whole reason the boundary matters.
What we will and will not do
What we do
- ✓Explain the concepts, readings and methods a unit is assessing until they make sense
- ✓Talk through your own plan or outline and tell you where the argument does not hold
- ✓Edit work you have written for clarity, structure, grammar and referencing
- ✓Mark a draft against the rubric your marker will use, and explain each judgement
- ✓Show you how to apply AGLC4, APA 7th, Vancouver or Harvard (AU) yourself
- ✓Work through past exam questions and practice problems with you
What we refuse
- ✕Write, part-write or rewrite anything you intend to submit
- ✕Sell pre-written papers, model answers, reference essays or exemplars
- ✕Sit an online exam, quiz or invigilated assessment as you
- ✕Log in to your university account, LMS or email
- ✕Post in a discussion board or group task under your name
- ✕Guarantee a mark, a grade or a pass — nobody outside your faculty can
If you ask us for something in the right-hand column, we will say no and explain why. We would rather lose the sale than put your degree at risk.
What support actually looks like
One-on-one tutoring
A live session on the specific thing you are stuck on. You bring the unit guide, the assessment brief and your attempt so far. You leave with your own notes and a clear idea of what to write next.
Editing with tracked changes
You send a draft you wrote. It comes back with every change visible and a comment explaining why, so you accept or reject each one deliberately. Nothing is altered silently and no new content is inserted.
Feedback against the rubric
We read your draft against the marking criteria for that assessment and tell you which criteria are met, which are thin, and what specifically would move each one up a band. The rewriting is yours.
Why this is not just a preference
In 2020 the Australian Parliament passed the Prohibiting Academic Cheating Services Act, which inserted sections 114A and 114B into the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011. Section 114A makes it an offence to provide, or arrange for a third party to provide, academic cheating services to a student. Section 114B makes it a separate offence to advertise them. Both carry penalties of up to two years imprisonment, and they reach operators based outside Australia who market to Australian students. TEQSA also has the power to have offending websites blocked by Australian internet providers.
Tutoring, editing, proofreading and feedback sit outside all of that. They are the same activities your own university funds through its learning support unit. What the legislation targets is the supply of work for a student to submit as their own — including when it is dressed up as a “model answer”, a “reference paper”, a “sample written to your brief” or a “draft for your guidance”. TEQSA guidance names that vocabulary specifically.
If a service offers to write it for you, that is the offence, not a loophole. A disclaimer telling you not to submit what they just sold you does not change what was supplied. Read this page as general information about how we operate, not as legal advice.
Try your university's free support first
Every Australian university runs an academic skills or learning support unit, and the cost is already inside your fees. Most offer writing consultations, drop-in sessions, maths and statistics help, and workshops on referencing and assessment structure. Your unit coordinator can also clarify a brief faster than anyone else, because they wrote it. Start there. Come to us when you need more time than they can give you, help outside their hours, or someone with real depth in your particular unit.
What we need from you
- Read your university's academic integrity policy and your unit guide, and tell us what they permit — rules on third-party editing differ between institutions and sometimes between units
- Send us your own draft, plan or attempt. We cannot give useful feedback on a blank page, and we will not fill one in
- Declare the use of an editor if your institution requires it, and keep your drafts in case you are ever asked to show your process
- Book with enough time to actually do the revising yourself. A deadline in six hours is the situation in which students make decisions they regret
- Ask us if you are unsure whether something is allowed. We would rather be asked
Common questions
Will you write my assignment for me?
No. We will not write, part-write, rewrite or supply any work intended for submission, and we do not sell pre-written papers, model answers or reference essays. We teach the material, review what you have written and explain what to change. The submitted work has to be yours.
Is using a tutoring or editing service legal in Australia?
Tutoring and editing are ordinary, legitimate academic support and are used openly by Australian universities themselves. What is against the law is the other thing: since the Prohibiting Academic Cheating Services Act 2020 amended the TEQSA Act 2011, providing or advertising work for a student to submit as their own is a criminal offence under sections 114A and 114B, with penalties of up to two years imprisonment. That applies to offshore providers marketing to Australian students, not only to local ones. This is general information rather than legal advice.
Does getting my essay edited count as academic misconduct?
It depends on your institution and sometimes on the individual unit. Most Australian universities permit proofreading and editing that improves clarity, grammar, structure and referencing, and prohibit editing that changes the substance of your argument or adds content you did not write. Some require you to declare that an editor was used. Check your unit guide and your university’s academic integrity policy before you engage anyone, including us, and tell us what your policy allows so we can work inside it.
What happens to the work I send you?
Your drafts are used only to give you feedback. We do not resell them, publish them, add them to a samples library or reuse them for another student. We also will not upload your work to a third-party similarity checker without asking you first, because doing so can place your own text in a database and cause it to be flagged when you submit.
What if my university already offers free help?
Use it. Every Australian university funds an academic skills or learning support unit, and most run free drop-in sessions, workshops and writing consultations included in your fees. Start there. Paid support is worth it when you need more time than they can give you, help outside their hours, or someone with depth in your specific unit.