Students need someone who has an advanced degree from US and UK universities for writing help

So,yesterday a desperate student contacted me in a last-ditch effort to save his research paper. The paper was clearly written by a native speaker and had some decent language. HOWEVER, it was off by a mile when it comes to following requirement and actually adhering to the academic writing style and methods.

Listen up, students: you need someone who has an advanced degree (MA, MS, PhD) from US and UK universities. Could be even ESL (especially if you are ESL yourself). Native writers clueless about academic writing are worse than ESLs with degrees who might have small stylistic errors here and there.

However the majority of writers are:

1. Rural Kenyans
2. Native speakers with no degree whatsoever

Do your research and select your writer wisely.

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You're right that the majority of anonymous freelance writers who advertise dozens of anonymous email accounts are foreign and illegitimate. That's why they try to work on their own because serious companies avoid them.

I'm sure there is a relationship between higher levels of education and better academic writing in a very general sense. However, I think it's overemphasized. The more important indicator is probably the bachelor's degree, as that's the point where you can assume the writer has at least basic abilities. But more on this in a moment.

If i were advising a student on finding a good writer, I would tell the student not to be assured by the letters MA, MS, or PhD after a name. I have seen some papers produced by U.S.-born advanced-degree holders that were purely wretched.

You have to consider: Someone with an advanced degree will have written several graduate-level papers and probably one thesis or dissertation. An experienced professional, no matter the education level, will have written thousands of papers and dozens of theses/dissertations. Who's going to know the keys to success?

In truth, the percentage of people you can trust to produce a decent paper is very low, no matter if they have a bachelor's, master's, or doctorate; no matter if they come from the same country as you; and no matter if they share your major. The people you can trust are those with extensive practice with academic writing conventions and enough experience to have previously come across the kind of assignment you're dealing with. In other words, you can trust the people who do this every day and seem to be making a living. There is a loose relationship with education level and a tight relationship with aptitude and experience. Academic writing is a style and a practice, and one that some people, by nature, pick up much more readily than others.

All other things being equal, a graduate degree is an advantage, especially for graduate-level work. However, advanced degrees are something that many ESL writers and domestic hacks use as a marketing tool, a proxy for being a good academic writer. They are not a substitute for actually being a good academic writer.

The standard advice holds: When you find a seemingly legitimate and capable writer or company, place a small order and see how it goes. This test will tell you much more than a resume or CV ever could. If it works out, start placing larger orders.

Is College Education and College Degree Worth the Cost and Effort?

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Considering that there has been stagnation with regards to wages over the past several decades, the expenses associated with college tuition have continued to rise at an index which is greater than the median income levels and inflation. The rise in college tuition has caused a four year college education to become unattainable for the members of many American families. In addition, student loan obligations have risen to more than $1.2 trillion. Stagnating wages, rising tuition costs and burgeoning student loan debts have caused many to wonder if a college education is worth the expense and effort.

Research has shown that a college education continues to be worth the effort and expenses. Researchers at the New York Federal Reserve have discovered that the average lifetime earnings of college graduates exceed the earnings of non-college graduates by $1 million. The wage benefits for college graduates causes their average wages to be more than 56% higher than the wages of non-college graduates. In addition, there is substantial evidence that the college education provides a means of acquiring higher paid employment opportunities.

There are many students who attend college and do not complete the requisites of a four years degree. Studies have manifested that 36.5% of the students who start as freshmen acquire their college degree within five years. At the privately owned universities, 57% of the freshmen receive their degrees within five years. These statistics infer that 40% of the students at private universities do not receive their diplomas and almost 65% of the students at public university do not graduate. The greater the amount of time needed to obtain the four year degree, the greater the costs incurred.

The global recession officially subsided over six years ago. Notwithstanding, the employment market has not fully recuperated. The tenure of the global recession and the rate of economic recovery implies that seven graduating classes of college students have entered into a soft labor market. Consequently, unemployment levels continue to remain high. There are many college graduates who are unemployed underemployed.

Conclusion

Attaining a four year college education is no longer an option, it has evolved into a necessity. The New York Federal Reserve reported that a college education causes a wage differentiation of $1 million between college graduates and non-college graduates. The graduation rates at a number of institutions continues to increase. When reviewing the fact that the difference in wages between college graduates and non-college graduates, a college education is worth the cost and effort.

I do not believe that students automatically need a writer with an advanced academic degree to write a paper for them. Not all papers that come in for writing help are of the master thesis / dissertation kind. Most of them are actually basic high school and college level research papers which can be completed by any writer who has a college degree. The college degree at least assures the student that the writer is informed about the most common writing styles and that the writer has a specialization to a certain extent. It is wrong to assume that all students need a masters of PhD level writer when the work does not require such type of specialized knowledge or writing styles. It is misleading to make that assumption as the students could get confused themselves when they read the paper. I mean, if they come in asking for an Archie comic book, they should not leave with a stack of encyclopedias. Simple papers will benefit from college graduate writers. Specialized papers, will do better in the hands of higher academic level writers as well. Besides, you never said what kind of research paper the client needed so I have to take your declarations with a grain of salt. Let's not confuse the issue here.

While I will agree that students do not need writers who have advanced educational degrees to write their papers. Hiring writers with advanced degrees to author high school and college level papers does have benefits. For one thing, the advanced writing skills of the author will give the students a heightened image of being an intellectual in the eyes of the teacher / professor. Provided the student knows how to play along by participating in class and reading the model paper prior to submitting either the model paper or his version of it for a grade, the professor will definitely view the said student in a different light.

Writing does not always need to sound basic in the early academic levels. Showing a high degree of writing proficiency can only serve to help the student in the future. Whether he is the writer of the paper or he is pretending to be the one who wrote it, the fact is, the writer with advanced knowledge and writing skills will make him look good and guarantee him the best grade possible for all his papers.

There's a misconception that a writer with a Masters or PhD will be the best writer. This is simply not true. In fact, degrees have nothing to do with how well a person can or cannot write. Ironically, we see this in the number of grad and post-grad students who seek our services for their writing needs. ;)

I do not have PhD/Doctorate, but I have successfully completed dozens of dissertations for clients. I am able to complete them successfully because I am a great writer and excellent researcher. The same holds true to those with advanced degrees. They may be able verbalize their ideas all day long, but some simply cannot convey the same knowledge in writing. There are those who are meant to be doctors and lawyers, and there are those who are meant to be writers. Some are blessed to be able to do multiple things. Overall, the degree doesn't mean anything when it comes to the ability to create stellar written projects.

Agreed. Most PhDs have only written one dissertation in their entire careers; and more often than not, they spent much of that writing time stumbling around just trying to understand how to do it and/or making extensive revisions necessitated by the fact that it was the first (and only) dissertation they ever had to write. An experienced writer rarely (if ever) has the same substantive academic background as a PhD candidate, but writing a dissertation doesn't require the same substantive understanding of the entire field as that possessed (one would hope) by any PhD candidate.

First, a dissertation covers only a very small slice of the broad scope of a PhD program rather than requiring a broad comprehensive understanding of the whole field. Second, dissertation writing is an "open-book" process, not a test of what knowledge the author of that dissertation has. Third, any highly-experienced academic writer knows how to research a topic and write about it relying on authoritative material at the appropriate level better than just about anybody who hasn't done this for a living for a decade or two. Finally, most dissertation candidates will be able to provide or direct a writer to all of the same sources of information upon which the candidate would have had to rely if the candidate had undertaken to write the dissertation without the help of a professional writer. Once the writer has access to all of those sources, the principle remaining variables become simply: 1. raw writing ability, and 2. experience writing dissertations.

Certainly, the first time I ever took on a dissertation, it was, undoubtedly, a very intimidating project. It came out great, but it took me much longer than similar projects take me now, after having produced so many of them in the last 10 years, and involved a lot more stress. While I wouldn't presume to be able to discuss random topics in any academic field as well as a PhD-holder in that field, (at least not spontaneously), I'm quite confident that I can now write a much better dissertation in virtually any field that I handle than the vast majority of PhD candidates in that field, especially if I have access to all of the same authoritative sources.

I believe that a student does not necessarily have to find someone with a degree in order to write any good work. Just need more time to analyze all the data and clearly write a paper. Perhaps already on the final direct, it is necessary that someone with greater skill in this simply checked his final work and pointed out the shortcomings. I write my courseworks by myself , so for me it's not hard now.

It is true that a good academic writer need not have postgraduate qualifications. In very many cases, holders of bachelor's degrees make for brilliant academic writers who go on to work professionally enough to earn a living from it.

But, (subject to availability) aren't the interests of the paying student best in the hands of a professional and experienced writer with an advanced degree?

Degrees are relevant, make no mistake about it, but they're also not the only indicator of success. On average, most quality writers will have advanced degrees, but some great writers may not have any degrees whatsoever. That said, the likelihood of finding a great writer without a degree is much smaller than finding an equally great writer with an MA, or higher. The majority, I think, are in the middle, holding at least a BA or equivalent (depending on their place of residence). Writing skill is not linked to college education at all, but the ability to do research and think critically is, at least in some part.

Writers who have a PhD or masters tend to have a field of expertise for their higher level writing papers. Don't forget that these writers have worked towards become experts in their own undergraduate field through the pursuit of advanced studies. However, these degrees only make them experts at writing within their field of study. It does not stand to reason that a writer with a masters or PhD in Literature would be able to deliver a master class paper on the Development and Cure of the Corona Virus (I am exaggerating here). If the writer has a PhD or masters in a specific field, he cannot write masters thesis or dissertations for students in other fields. It would be hard for him to sell the idea that he has the proper training, skills, and know-how to execute scientific papers when his expertise is in literary research. It doesn't make sense. Hire a master thesis or dissertation writer who shares the same background as you do. That way he will know how to approach the research, writing, and completion of your thesis or dissertation.

There is an international move, a cooperation if you will, between colleges and universities, to align their academic teaching and student writing styles under an acceptable common format. With the international alignment of the teaching and writing standards, we can expect that the human academic writer skills, regardless of the country that they originate from, will meet international teaching and writing standards going forward. This was done in order to combat the emergence of AI in the academic world and temper the use of AI in writing by students.

As someone pulling double shifts as a student assistant at my university's Writing Center, I've seen it all-and honestly, if this shift actually gains traction, it's going to be a total godsend.

Right now, there's this massive disconnect where students think they can just bypass the process. This alignment would finally force people to actually sit down and write the work themselves. Maybe then it'll click that there's no "easy button" or shortcut for a paper that actually deserves an A.