The final paper for your undergraduate English literature class is worth 35% of your grade. Your professor grades all the papers and is known to be a tough grader. Your friend finds several papers from students who took the course the previous year and received excellent grades on their papers. He sends them to you over e-mail. What should you do?

In this situation, I would certainly understand that my friend has the best intentions in mind. He wants to help me through the paper, especially considering the bearing that it has on our grades in the course. I would first seek to get more information and understand whether my friend was given the papers through an official means (e.g., the course's website, or through a TA), or whether he had obtained them in a manner not permitted. I would al... (+ 325 words)