How ESL entrepreneurs will eventually take over the essay industry

1) First, due to US universities churning out incompetent graduates that are expected to take the country`s economy to the next level, the US economy will collapse as a result of incompetent Americans manning the economy. Naturally, there won`t be any jobs.

2) At the same time, a determined, daring, and technically competent army of ESL businesspersons will launch thousands of essay websites targeted at US students.

3) Due to their technical know-how, the ESL businesspersons will eclipse Americans in terms of SEOs and business promotion.

4) Most students will now be using essay services from ESL entrepreneurs.

5) Due to severe lack of jobs in the US, most American writers will have no option but to seek employment from overseas essay sites, even if they`ll be earning $3 per page.

6) US essay companies will die a natural death.

7) WB will quit this forum, seeing that it will be left with nothing to defend as all US essay companies will have tanked.

For such a decorated lecturer, this is really poorly written.

Do you not have a creative bone in your body? Why do you keep stealing from me? That is how I've been referring to YOU for years.

Stop being so jealous of America, Queenie.

How's your dog-walking business coming along? Seriously"I want to know.

Supposing you were to patent a simple invention like, say, an idiot's spoon.........how much would you brag? No wonder nature knew beforehand your vanities and never granted you even the simplest of talents- except, of course, banging Who IS database with your nauseating queries.


Yeah, i am jealous of idiotic, clueless, lazy, and fat airheads that send $1000..000s to Nigerian scammers in a bid to share in oil 'inheritance' deals.


I told you i am making a whooping $300 per month(gross)...do you have a dog? i can haul it in. ooohhh i forgot, you don't need one. You are one.

Congratulations! - some of these 'predictions' have actually materialized ;)

Still, the disreputable ESL 'entrepreneurs' have now a big dilemma - what to do with the hundreds of websites they have created. The initial cost of website development was low to them (using free Wordpress templates and same scripts doesn't add to the cost), but the permanent cost of maintenance, web hosting, and domain registration fees can add up quickly. Plus, they now start realizing students are not as naive as they would want them to be and slapping a nice picture or a cool web design cannot and will not build an instant brand and trustworthiness.

I noticed they have started dropping their 'essay writing service' domains because they concluded that a dozen of real visitors a month isn't worth it. Some of them continue playing with website hackings and black SEO techniques, but they are also due for punishment; just because they disabled search engines from visiting their sites while having the hacked websites redirected to their own sites doesn't protect them from the dreadful historical graph which is likely to penalize them by other means, including web browser warnings like: 'This website hosts malicious content.'

Contrary to what others might think, students also live in a competitive world. Better grades = better start towards their career goals. While some of them may conclude that an African or Ukrainian 'writer' who calls himself a "Kathy Richardson" or "Susan Anderson" and charges $7-$20 per page is their best choice, others may decide that risking a machine-paraphrased or plagiarized paper that had already been submitted to Turnitin or risking their identity being hijacked is not the way to go.

I predict that as time goes by, students who need example academic research services will become smarter shoppers. Because there are only two choices:

A) Low-cost, low-quality ESL / plagiarized / paraphrased garbage re-grouped / script-paraphrased by an Internet marketer from Nairobi, Mumbai, Karachi, Shanghai, or Kiev,

B) High-quality, original research performed by native English speakers educated in one of the US, UK, or Australian academic institutions.

Those who choose the low-cost option are probably better off visiting Wikipedia or some other free library website and copy-pasting / re-writing / re-phrasing the documents related to their research subject (that's what the majority of the cheap ESL writers, at best, do). The final product won't surely give them a nice grade, but they would at least not risk their personal information being hacked.

Writing consistently superior academic content day after day is tough. Most of the topics I accept are interesting and motivate me to learn more about them* (after a couple of cups of coffee anyway), but some assignments are so difficult or esoteric that they defy easy completion. If you are lucky enough to find an academic writer or essay writing company that is willing to devote the requisite time and effort to understand the topic and deliver a quality product, you've done well.

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* I'm finally sufficiently expert in some topics that I can educate more than learn, but I'm always open to new ideas.

Well, neither of these predictions have actually come true. The ESL writers have not taken over the industry and the independent writers have not managed to run them out of business either. Both still exist in their own gray areas. Both still pose a puzzlement to students who wish to hire their services, and both are still complained about by students at varying degrees. The only thing that has happened, and nobody predicted this, is that Covid-19 has redefined how the academic writing companies and writers do business and farm for clients. Blended learning is a bane to a hard working academic writer's business.

In what ways?

The title of this thread is sad as far as I am concerned. The academic writing world did not follow a path that we could have predicted all those years ago. The battle used to be between ENL and ESL writers. One of the groups would eventually become the supreme leaders of the academic writing industry. Then the battle became ENL v. ESL v. AI. Who would have predicted an outcome where the machine would be the eventual victor in the battle? Where we thought AI could not win because of its lack of logic and other human writing abilities, we did not see that because humans wanted to improve the program, that it would eventually become so good, it has all but taken over all of the writing jobs in various fields.

The main premise of the OP was that foreign ESL sites would overwhelm the industry by sheer virtue of their online presence, not by virtue of the quality of their product. Today, ESL sites are being wiped out by AI, precisely because the work they provide is even worse than AI writing. The only writers who are still doing any kind of business in this industry are those of us who are already known for the actual quality of our work, because that can't be matched by AI programs.