This policy governs every ThinkLab engagement, without exception. It applies to every service, every client, and every deadline, and it is written into the agreement you sign before any work begins.
This is the statement we work to. It is repeated in full in every service agreement, and it is the test every request is measured against.
ThinkLab is an academic coaching and editorial consultancy. Our services are limited to education, skills development, and language editing. All research, analysis, and final writing decisions remain the sole responsibility of the client. We do not complete assignments, take examinations, or guarantee academic outcomes.
Read plainly: we teach, we edit, and we review. You remain the author of your work, and you remain accountable for it.
Six refusals. They are not negotiable, and they do not move for a deadline, a fee, or a rewording of the request.
Writing assignments, theses, dissertations, or reports, in whole or in part, for you to submit as your own.
Taking exams, quizzes, tests, or timed online assessments in your place, under any arrangement.
Logging into your university portal, student email, or learning system, or submitting work as you.
Guaranteeing a grade, a pass, an acceptance, or a publication. No supplier can control any of these.
Fabricating, manipulating, or selectively omitting data, results, or citations to make a finding look stronger.
Producing content you could not explain or defend in a viva, a supervision meeting, or a review.
If a request falls into one of these six, we decline it and tell you which part crossed the line. We do not quietly reshape it into something that looks acceptable on an invoice.
Integrity is not one-sided. When you accept a service agreement, you confirm the following.
Rules differ between institutions, and sometimes between departments in the same institution. Where your rules are stricter than this policy, your rules apply, and we will work inside them.
Two things are widely misunderstood, so we state them here rather than in small print.
Where a service includes a similarity check, you receive an iThenticate similarity report and our reading of it. There is no such thing as a Turnitin certificate. A similarity report is a diagnostic that shows matched text; it is not a clearance, a pass mark, or proof of originality.
ThinkLab is not an accreditation body. ABET accredits university programmes, not documents, and no consultancy can accredit a report, a thesis, or a design. What we provide is a technical or editorial review against a published standard or rubric, signed by the reviewer.
The policy is enforced by the process, not by good intentions. Six steps sit between a first message and a closed job.
Before we quote, we ask for your brief, your rubric, and your institution's policy on editing and third-party support. Requests that fall outside this policy are declined at this step, not after payment.
Scope, boundary, price, and delivery date are written down before work starts. The commitment above forms part of that agreement.
We work from your draft, your data, or your outline. No service begins with an empty document, because that would make us the author.
Edits arrive as tracked changes with comments explaining the reason for each one. You accept or reject them, so the final text remains a set of your decisions.
Before a job closes we ask you to describe, in your own words, what changed and why. If a section is still unclear to you, we go back over it rather than sign it off.
A short session after delivery to work through whatever the review exposed, so the same problem does not return in your next chapter or paper.
Contract cheating is the practice of submitting work produced by someone else as if it were your own, whether that work was bought, traded, or given. It covers essay mills, ghostwritten theses, paid exam sitting, and rewriting services that hand back a finished document the student did not write.
Universities worldwide treat it as serious misconduct. Penalties commonly include a mark of zero, a failed module, suspension, expulsion, or the withdrawal of a degree already awarded, and the finding can stay on an academic record. The risk sits with the student, not with the supplier. Any service that tells you otherwise is describing something it cannot control.
Several jurisdictions have gone further and criminalised commercial essay mills, making it an offence to provide or advertise these services:
ThinkLab declines contract cheating requests, and we say why rather than going quiet. If part of a brief crosses the line, we name that part, and we set out what we could do instead within this policy: coaching on the argument, editing of text you have written, or a technical review of your own work. Sometimes there is no version we can take on, and we say that too.
Send us the brief and your institution’s integrity policy. We will read both and tell you plainly whether we can help, which parts we can take on, and which we cannot. The answer is sometimes no, and you will have it before you pay rather than after.
Asking costs nothing and takes less time than a misconduct hearing.
