No Difference Between Freelancers and Academic Essay Mills

There is a misunderstanding that only academic writing companies host essay mills. In truth, an essay mill is a service that aids in the actions related to academic fraud as completed by academic assistance companies and freelancers. These activities are not limited to essay writing alone but, essay writing will be my primary focus since that is what this forum is all about.

Freelance academic writers, just like the companies, are provided by the students with all necessary writing instructions for the completion of the paper. They pay a hefty seem for this original research paper. This is the primary basis of academic froud based on the academic oath that students swear to uphold asa member of the school. Simply put, it is a violation of the academic code to pay someone to write your paper and submit it for a grace. Proven violators face a failing class grade, suspension, or expulsion as punishments depending on the severity of the violation.

These non - company affiliated writers complete hundreds of papers, some would even say thousands of papers every year. Papers that they claim to transfer rights to the student so they can use the paper in any way they want, including submitting it for a grade. Note that neither the company or writer ever tells the student that the intellectual transfer falls under a perpetual basis. There is an unspoken expiration to that which is only known to the company or writer. There lies the danger of this type of deal.

The original digital paper remains in the possession of the writer. A writer who must advance his business by any act necessary since his income is seasonal based on the academic calendar. The dry seasons mean a meager income for the writer. The solution? Make money out of the collected, intellectually transferred papers. He can and he will since it was not a perpetual transfer of rights. That private collection of expired papers are then repeatedly resold to new students. Most of whom do not understand that there papers should not be submitted for a grade. Don't just take his word for it when he says it is a permanent transfer. There is no such thing in this business.

Sometimes, the writer, at a loss for time to complete a quick turn-around could even resort to using cut and paste information from his secret stash during the regular academic year. Yes, it is a common practice among independent writers since there is no QAD to check his paper quality. A writer who does QAD himself on his own work isa dishonest writer. He can only hope that the minimal corrections he makes would be enough to pass plagiarism checkers. Does a student really want to take that chance?

Essay Mill papers should not be used as anything more than a writing starting point for the student. Do not overpay for any paper from either source since you can never be sure of the content and uhkown deal factors. Most importantly, never submit an original or model paper for a grade. It would be safer for you to just ask for a listing of related citation sources, which is half the job done, then forming the paper yourself. That is a true original paper you cannot be blackmailed for by the company or writer.

@noted
Thank you so much for this post!

Noted makes some interesting points, once you get past their obfuscated English. However, it doesn't seem like there is any distinction between an unscrupulous writer cut-and-pasting from their "secret stash" working as an independent, and one doing the exact same thing for a company. The only company QAD in this industry that I've seen has been engineered to line administration's pockets. And I have yet to see an essay company admin who can pour **** out of a boot with instructions written on the heel, when it comes to QC.

First, the number of papers written by a given writer is totally unrelated to whether that writer works for essay companies or independently. Second, with very few exceptions, every writer who does actually make a successful transition to complete independence started out writing for essay companies. It takes time to build your brand and to establish the kind of reputation for good work that enables any writer to maintain a sufficiently large clientele to work without needing any work from essay companies. Most writers never actually manage to do that and simply take as much freelance work as possible while always still relying on essay companies for the majority of their work. Only the very best essay-company writers ever manage to make that transition to complete independence.


First, the transfer of copyright is totally unrelated to what customers choose to do with their projects.


Second, I don't just "claim" to transfer copyrights to every project to every client. My clients own every project they receive from me, exclusively, and without exception. This is prominently displayed right on my website and, therefore, it's a binding term of our agreement, just by virtue of that, alone. I have always transferred copyrights to my clients simply because I believe it's the right thing to do:if someone commissions me to write a project, he or she owns the copyrights to that project, exclusively, and permanently.


Allow me to explain something extremely basic to you about how contracts work: There's no such thing in law as "backsies" or "pinkies crossed" in any contracts between adults about anything; that's something for children in playgrounds, OK? Anytime a website and/or private communications between a writer and a client specifically say that the client owns the copyright to the work, that's (technically) a permanent and exclusive "assignment" of the copyright without any expiration, qualification, or any other limitation. If there's nothing else written there to say that that transfer "expires" or that copyrights are "shared" by the writer, there's no such thing as any additional contractual terms that exist only in the mind of the writer that could be exercised later to reclaim any of those rights that were originally transferred to clients.

A time-limited or otherwise limited or qualified right to use a piece of written work is called a license. Guess who provides only a license and never transfers copyrights to customers: Essay companies. Essay companies do the exact opposite of transferring copyright, and if you just read their TOS, they specifically say that they retain exclusive copyrights and that no copyrights are transferred to their customers. Their TOS also typically define the license that they do provide as allowing their customers only to "read," "study," and "cite the work as a source" in their own writing. Guess what else that exclusive retention of copyrights allows the essay company to do: Resell those essays anytime they want and to anybody; it also allows them to publish them as samples, right on their websites. Many of them do publish their projects on their websites, the exact same essays to which their customers only receive a limited "license."


First, the "original digital paper" to every project sold by every essay company also "remains in the possession" of both the original writer and the essay company. Second, essay companies have no control over what their writers might choose to do in violation of their contracts with their writers. Any essay-company writer can resell or reuse portions of any project that actually belongs to the essay company, even if the company itself waits a fair amount of time to do that. In fact, nobody is more likely to do that than essay-company writers who often resent being paid only 50% (or less) than they know the company charges for their hard work.


First, to the extent there is any dry season, nowadays, they affect essay companies just as much as independent writers. Second, I've been explaining for years that since roughly 2010, I haven't really noticed as much of a fluctuation in demand during what used to be the "dry season," because people seem to be attending school throughout the summer months much more often than they used to. Third, and most importantly, I've never "resold" or "reused" a single essay out of approximately 10,000 that I've written in 20+ years. The market for pre-written essays has been dead since 2007. More importantly, no writer doing business for decades under the same ID (and email) would ever take the risk of reusing any of his old work for anything, because it just wouldn't be worth the potential damage to his reputation if a client discovered his having done so.

I'm also fascinated at your comments relating to your incredible inside knowledge of other people's finances. Among other proclamations, you've previously announced that I must have gone back to writing for the essay company where I first started out because of my financial situation, that Professor Verb must be experiencing financial difficulties because he chose to come back here to defend me against your totally false accusations, and (amazingly) that university professors are actually ghostwriting essays for students because professors are "falling on hard times." How is it that you would ever have all of this private information about other people's finances, let alone how you could possibly ever know what "hushed tones" professors are using to discuss any of this with their colleagues in private?


Exactly how would you ever know about any of this?
https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/proof-cases-may-lead-american-companies-give-clients-1081/#msg85469


As catyradidbanana pointed out, the entire concept of "QAD" (in any real sense) at essay companies is a joke, as is the nonsense that you and your buddy have been pushing here, ad nauseam, about essay companies "assigning" projects to writers who are "experts" with "degrees" in the area of every project. Nobody is reading every project written by every writer at essay companies. If you believe that there are any "editors" at essay companies who are carefully reading and making corrections to the essays uploaded by writers, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Typically, essay companies run their essays through their own plagiarism scanners just to make sure they're original; and I don't think they even scan more than a small random sampling all of them; but I don't know that for sure. Nobody at the essay company gets involved in any project unless a customer complains, in which case, they check the essays involved anytime the writer doesn't simply resolve the complaint himself, such as by promptly uploading a requested revision. Except in specific complaints or accusations, it's all automated.


Really? This suggestion is ridiculously foolish, because it necessarily means there's (literally) no such thing as any independent writer who is honest and conscientious. In fact, none of us would ever have been able to establish a decades-long reputation for delivering exceptionally good work if we were either unable to edit and proofread our own work or if we didn't care enough about our reputations to do so, and very carefully. In my case, my specific job title at the US Department of Health and Human Services was "Writer/Editor"; so I think I'm qualified to edit my own essays.

In general, all academic writers are always much more careful about the work we do for our private clients than we are about the work we do for essay companies. For many years, I continued writing for essay companies while simultaneously trying to build my own private clientele. My essay-company projects were always good, but my private projects always took priority in every sense, and anybody who thinks about it for 10 seconds will immediately understand why: As company writers, our income is only related very loosely to how well the company is doing. Obviously, successful companies have more work available for us than unsuccessful companies; but when we're writing projects for private clients, our work is our reputation and we have much more to gain (directly) by providing our best work and much more to lose by providing anything less than our best work. At essay companies, projects might be taken by their best writer or by their very worst and/or newest writer who might be trying this kind of work out for the very first time and who might get fired in a few weeks for submitting horrible and/or totally plagiarized writing. Conversely, when you do business with a writer who has established a great reputation under the same ID for many years, you know that you're dealing with someone who has nothing to gain and quite a lot to lose by submitting any kind of recycled or otherwise subpar work.

Rubbish. Essay companies can and do find fault with some essays submitted by their writers. They can penalise writers by deducting money from their fee, so it is in a writer's best interests to write carefully. Repeated below-par essays can lead to a writer being banned from working for the company.

I am of course talking about honest essay writing companies who obey the law.

Companies that fine their writers do-- and often arbitrarily. That's a great reason to go solo. There are no "honest companies" in the academic ghostwriting industry, as these companies engage in providing criminal accessories in the first place. You can paste as many disclaimers as you want on it: that's the bottom line.

What on earth does this mean? Can you write in plain English. If essay companies are engaging in criminal activities then by your warped analysis, so are freelance writers.

My English is fine. The warped part is that companies hide their provision of criminal accessories behind flimsy, winking caveats such as "research use only" and "not intended to be turned in for credit." Freelance writers are accessories to crimes as a baseline, however much various reactionary hypocrites want to tart that aspect of the industry up, blow it kisses on this forum, and generally act like addled idiots.

Your English is not fine.
Maybe you are able to understand that writing essays for students studying at English universities is illegal, irrespective of any caveat that is given. Has that sunk in? Probably not.

Looks like my own point, with a little pejorative sprinkled in. Is this how you normally conduct yourself?

@catyradidbanana
"Is this how you normally conduct yourself?" Depends if I'm dealing with addled idiots.

Your comments were aimed at all essay companies and all freelance writers. I merely pointed out the position regarding English law, and you jumped on the bandwagon.

What is this, an echo chamber? Looks like your own English could use a little work. Nonetheless, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

But claiming to lead a bandwagon regarding something that's common knowledge... aren't you thinking a little highly of yourself?

@catyradidbanana


I don't have too high an opinion of myself, but when an 'Unspecified' person writes unintelligible rubbish like this and then criticises my English, I do wonder what they are contributing. Is there a Translation button for your posts?

Having understood and responded to the clarion call "reactionary hypocrite," you've certainly gotten the gist. Any attempt to say otherwise is further obfuscation of your own true contributory purpose on this forum, which is apparently to be a general snob and perform hatchet-jobs. What a sad state of affairs...

@catyradidbanana
'....your own true contributory purpose on this forum,....'
I know my reasons for being on here, but it seems to me your presence is to bolster the reputation of a certain discredited freelance writer on this forum. You said my English needs some work, but when I point out your lamentable use of the English language, I am a snob. Really. Pot, kettle etc.

You've pointed out absolutely nothing. And I doubt that a case of barking echolalia can be considered linguistic superiority by any reasonable standard.

LOL @ this attempt to continue masquerading as a "retired British writer" even after having been proven to be a complete fraud. This is simply Editor75 AKA RustyIronChains returning to this forum to resume the same series of attacks on me for the horrible sin of being more successful than he was as an academic writer: https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/flexible-academic-requirements-new-freelance-writers-3569/#msg87089 (Post #28)


You certainly should know:


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/experiences-bestessays-2885/#msg51275


Just one small correction: He's here to perpetrate only ONE hatchet job, not jobs. In an industry thoroughly saturated with outright scams against customers, he's had nothing to say about any of them, or, for that matter, about the fact that, without exception, every other writer who advertises here also handles a much wider range of academic areas than those in which any one person can possibly hold degrees. Just as was the case when he spent years disparaging me as "Editor75," his sole and exclusive focus is always on falsely disparaging ME, the one writer who earned enough respect from fellow (competing) writers that no fewer than four of them (ProfessorVerb, Meokhan, Wordsies, and srandrews/99essays) have defended me against his recent attacks, while also referring to me as the best writer any of them has ever known in this business. They also offered their own opinions of what motivates this deranged animosity:



https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/avoid-dishonest-clients-3489/#msg86534 (Post # 17)


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/wondering-anyone-writing-services-actually-follow-6562/#msg86497 (Post # 11)


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/#msg61131 (Post # 30)


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/#msg61131 (Post # 29)

How do you explain your fundamental error which shows your ignorance of British English grammar? Perhaps you need reminding, 'right on queue' instead of 'right on cue.' You have never addressed your elementary error. Here is your chance.

a1writer apparently hails from a place where actors and actresses wait for their queues and read from queue cards. People stand in cues there, I guess. It's not the US or UK; wherever it is, it must be confusing.

@catyradidbanana
In British English 'Cue' refers to a signal or a prompt. 'Queue' refers to a line of people waiting for something.
Hope that helps you to understand the difference.
You are correct that I'm not American, but sorry to disappoint you, I am British.
One thing worse than a troll, is an ignorant one.

You're right; I was ignorant of the fact that it was FW that made that mistake in the first place.


And speaking as we are of the ability to present one's case clearly in English, perhaps you can see the reason for my confusion. That is, the above statement is as clear as mud. Thankfully, I used the search function, and solved the mystery, thus ending my ignorance. Your inability to express yourself properly, however, will likely continue.

The above statement was not even directed at you! But you decided to blunder in anyway, without looking at the context of the post. Don't try and blame me for your decision to comment on a post in a thread that you had not researched properly.

Perhaps you can let FW comment on his use of 'right on queue' instead of 'right on cue.' However he has so far failed to do so, since it highlights his incorrect use of British English grammar.

It's probably because he's disturbed by the agenda there on your sleeve, or maybe he simply views you as a lunatic. In any case, sorry to interrupt-- have fun trying to disparage a writer whose competency seems to be widely recognized on this forum.

Of course. No sane person without a pre-existing malicious agenda against a specific individual would ever join any online forum community (about anything) and immediately proceed to trashing one of the most senior active members with a 14-year posting history and almost as long a record of support (even admiration, in some cases) from at least a half-dozen other writers, and despite that fact that, without exception, each of them was and/or still is a direct competitor. Professor Verb, Pheelyks, ResearchPro, JohnsMom, and I were all high-volume/highly requested writers at the same essay company until 2013. They also competed directly against me for private clients, along with MeoKhan, Wordsies, and srandrews/99essays. Each and every one of them has repeatedly referred to me either as the best or one of the best writers in this business over the last decade; and four of them actually came back here recently to defend me against this 10-month-long, non-stop malicious daily barrage of lies and false accusations posted by one very disgruntled jealous failed writer who simply cannot live with anything in this paragraph except by lashing out in an obvious jealous rage.

Anticipating the predictable strawman argument in response: Am I suggesting that the length of someone's membership on any forum entitles him to automatic trust and confidence? Of course, not. The same goes for the fact that I have also paid to advertise here for years: by itself, it means nothing. All I'm suggesting is that anybody who has ever participated in any online forum before recognizes that this is highly abnormal and that there's no other remotely reasonable explanation for these kinds of persistent and so obviously disingenuous attacks. Likewise, to engage in such a prolonged, nasty, totally unprovoked series of attacks against one person a decade ago and then return here years later to pick it up all over again is already disturbing enough. To do so using one new fake ID after another reflects an unbelievable level of personal hatred that obviously has absolutely nothing to do with any "principled" justifications or the motivation to "help" anybody.


I don't actually think he's a lunatic. It's plainly obvious to (at least 4 or 5 other writers here and) me that this is about as classic and recognizable a case of rage induced by sheer jealousy as you'll ever see. In both of his first two forum IDs (RustyIronChains & Editor75), he regularly referred to this industry as a "cesspit" and he always had the same excuse for "differentiating" himself from the rest of us "losers" who earn our living this way, such as making sure we all knew that he only did this for pocket change, because he actually had a lot of "irons in the fire," lived in "a pretty big house," is a "published author," and doesn't "need" to do this.

In all 3 or 4 of his most-used IDs, he also routinely referred to me as someone who "thinks he's God's gift" who "enjoys the respect he gets on an anonymous online forum," who "thinks he's wonderful," and who "brags" and "boasts." Anybody who knows any 12-year-olds recognizes this language immediately for exactly what it is. That's especially the case when, in 14.5 years and roughly 2,500 posts, I don't think I've ever actually typed anything that could reasonably or objectively be considered "bragging" or "boastful."


Thank you for noticing that this seems to be the case. Anticipating the predictable strawman response again (as always): Am I suggesting that catyradidbanana should automatically assume or prematurely conclude that I'm as good and honest a writer as so many of my clients and colleagues have said I am on this forum? No. I'd expect him/her to read more, to whatever extent he/she is interested in spending time coming to an informed decision about it. The point is that to any normal person without a very specific malicious agenda to try to harm my business out of jealous spite, the available evidence seems to suggest that the attacks on me here are neither truthful nor reflective of anybody's good-faith desire to "protect" anybody.

Quite right, nobody should presume anything about how good a writer you are when you don't know how to use British English grammar correctly. 'Right on queue.' lol