Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy
We publish guides, not ghostwritten essays. Every article on Your Super Essay is original work, and we expect the same from anyone who references or republishes our material. This page explains what that means in practice.
Our stance on original writing
All editorial content on this site is written in-house or commissioned from real academic writers and editors. We do not copy from other sources, spin existing articles, or republish student papers. Every guide, from How to Structure a Philosophy Argument to Citing Sources in APA 7th Edition, starts with a blank page and a clear brief.
If you see something in our articles that looks like it came from somewhere else, let us know. We take corrections seriously and will issue an update with full attribution if we missed a source.
Proper citation in our articles
We cite directly in the text. When we reference a study, a book, a journal article, or another publication, we name the author and the work right there in the body. No buried footnotes, no vague “research shows” without a name. You should be able to check our claims without digging through a reference list at the bottom.
That said, we do include a references section at the end of major guides. It lists the full bibliographic details so you can locate the original material yourself. That is standard academic practice, and we follow it.
How we handle plagiarism in our content
Plagiarism is not a grey area here. If one of our writers submits text lifted from another source without attribution, we reject the piece, do not pay the invoice, and do not work with that writer again. Period.
We also run every article through a plagiarism checker before publication. This catches close paraphrasing and missing citations. If the checker flags a passage, we rewrite it or add the missing source before the article goes live.
What this means for you as a reader
You can use our guides to learn how to write your own essays. That is the point. But do not copy sentences from our articles into your assignments. That is plagiarism, and your university’s academic integrity office will treat it the same as copying from a textbook or a journal article.
Read our guides. Learn the techniques. Then write in your own voice. If you want to quote something from Your Super Essay in your own work, cite us properly. Treat us like any other source.
Consequences for misuse
If we discover that someone is republishing our articles in full without permission or claiming our work as their own, we will issue a DMCA takedown notice and pursue the matter with their hosting provider or institution. We have done this before and will do it again.
We are here to support better writing, not to enable shortcuts that violate academic rules.