<p>The only way I ever cheated was to translate paragraphs from essays written in another language into my language. It was fool-proof :-)
But we've had people turn in essays which were clearly nothing more than Wikipedia compilations.. So I don't feel guilty..</p>
<p>Almost everyone at our school does it. The teacher does not notice unless everyone has the same exact thing. However to get around that all you have to do is just add an introductory paragraph and conclusion. You can copy and past everything else and the teacher won't notice. Actually, you don't even have to copy and paste. You can just pull stuff out your a** and get an A since most teachers do not read the essays. The only teacher who actually reads every part of the paper and comments on it is my English teacher.</p>