Why do students use essay writing companies?

Hello everyone I am doing some research for a dissertation on the rational for using essays writing company's?

I would like to understand the motivation behind why students use essays writing services and how students can afford to by the huge sums of money that would seem prohibitively expensive for 99 % of the student population.

For example:

1) Pressure from parents to achieve unrealistic goals
2) Being let down by large class numbers and lack of individual attention for lecturers?
3) Illness of a family member

I would appreciate any help you could give me to help me to finish my project.

Thank you in advance.

I can only speak from personal experience. I use the services because I have a full workload. I am a full time job ( currently serving in the Middle East), wife and kids, and go to college. if my deadline is given for a short amount of time, then I need to use the service. I don't have a lot of time to research and do a good paper. When I get the paper I do make it my own by using my writing style and understanding the information given.

Hope that helps in any way.

I really cannot claim to know why someone else would do it, but I believe that some subjects are truly useless to a student. When I was in school, there were two classes which I found to be so incredibly pointless that I could not fathom reading and learning the material. Considering I do think of myself as a student for life in both the literal and figiturave senses, this is a major statement.

That is why I considered using these types of resources during school.

personally, I am trying to find a legitimate site right now because I need help with it too.
Well I'm trying to skim through this website to figure out good websites..
The thing is I work every day and don't really have time and I've spent 2 days trying to search for the right one. Just as Emmy said.

Thank you for your replies so far. I am just interested in why you as an individual have chosen you use an essays writing company.

The more information the better, keep them coming.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer the question

Too many classes;
too much workload;
not confident enough with their own writing abilities;
forgot an assignment that is now due;
don't fully understand the assignment;
just don't want to do the work;
had a family emergency;
dog ate their original copy;
partied too much and are hung over;
waited too long to begin the assignment;

Am I missing anything?

I am such a student, so here is my 2 penneth worth : course MBA
1 -I am 42, and I left the academic world a long long time ago, I spent 9 years at college (part time) and I am now faced with needing a degree as the company I work for will not take me on in the USA without one, which is BS as my college diplomas amount to better than a BA ! but, the VP made the rule, so I need the degree

2 - I have 3 kids, and just do not have the time to do the work, well I do, but after 10 hours at work, coming home and doing more is not really what I want to do)

3 - I earn a reasonable amount of money and when I consider the time it takes to do the work, compared with what I earn, it makes financial sense to pay someone else to do it for me.

4 - I am getting old, and I am lazy
5- I can't afford to fail
6- The course has cost me £5,000, so paying another £5000 to be sure of a pass in the shortest possible time makes financial sense (the sooner I pass, the sooner I can emigrate and earn more money :-))

7- need I go on ?
The key for me is, I can afford to pay the £23.95 per page, my time is precious and I need this degree asap
But, finding the right company is taking more time that doing the bloody work lol

Daz911
"But, finding the right company is taking more time that doing the bloody work"
Amen to that !

4) Most academic writing assignments outside of Composition class are useless because they have nothing to do with substantive knowledge and because very little of what is considered "legitimate" academic research at the college level is anything of the sort.

In my opinion, the process of writing papers teaches very little and nobody but people who will be writing for a living should have mandatory writing assignments in the first place. The vast majority of college-level papers don't qualify as genuine academic "research" anyway: students simply paraphrase everything and then cite it all to comply with the technical rules defining plagiarism.

Undoubtedly, the ability to express yourself in writing is important, which is why I think Composition classes make a lot more sense than assigned substantive academic "research" at the college level. As a matter of fact, a recent study of professional scientific journal submissions determined that even they plagiarize more often than not. (They identified particular mistakes in the actual citations that appeared over and over in different journals and determined that professional researchers often simply copy their supposed "primary sources" from the references in other published articles because they all contained the exact same mistake, like a specific comma or semicolon out of place or other identical typos in multiple papers which is statistically impossible for multiple independent researchers to make unless they're just copying and pasting the same mistakes in the citation of other articles.) In my opinion, fudged writing in professional scientific journals is a much more serious matter than in undergraduate academic writing.

In-class essay exams are a much better test of what students have actually learned than out-of-class writing assignments. I write tons of Education and Nursing papers simply because many people, including successful educators and nurses, hate writing and are lousy at it. Luckily, writing has nothing to do with being a great nurse, precisely because nursing is about knowing what drugs and procedures to administer and how to follow doctors' orders rather than about writing essays about the history of modern nursing or the discovery of penicillin. Same goes for what makes a good teacher. I also do a lot of dental school essays and doubt that any patients have suffered any worse dental care by virtue of dentists' not writing their own papers on root canals if any of those clients chose to submit my work for credit instead of using it as a writing guide. By definition, to the extent writing assignments allow students to choose their own essay topics in the first place, the actual subject matter of their papers is arbitrary and not "necessary" knowledge. For obvious reasons, I doubt that anybody whose future career requires extensive formal writing would need a ghostwriter.

Whatever ethical issues are violated by students who choose to turn in papers they didn't write, it's not as though any of them are applying for jobs as writers or writing instructors; for the vast majority of professionals, the last formal writing they ever had to do was in school anyway.

Amen. If I had a penny for every article I had to reject because its cited materials didn't match the actual material from the articles where the author supposedly took them, well, I won't be rich but I'd certainly have enough money for all the bus rides I'd ever take. :)

Glad you have your way of justifying your job. We all have them, I guess. Mine goes something like it's the schools' darned job to stop us from doing what we do, and it's their continued incompetence that allows me to earn the extra cash I get from writing students' papers for them.

Speak for yourself and spare me your constant hypocritical toneon the topic of ethics that you repeat ad nauseum. I'm not "justifying" anything: all the companies that use me make every possible attempt to discourage improper use of the product, and we already know your opinion about that, too.

The question was why students would choose to submit other people's work for their own and I'm simply suggesting one reason is that there's arguably little value to typical academic writing assignments outside of composition class and engineering, nursing, and dental students (etc.) know that they won't ever need to do much formal writing in their careers anyway. I doubt that many students whose future careers require extensive writing would use the writing of others as their own.

Hey... calm down, I hope you didn't think that I was trying to insult you or anything. >.<


Do you mean those short statements somewhere at the bottom of nearly every major essay mill site where they say "our products are model papers only"? :D Yeah... I'm sure they count as "every possible attempt" to you. Goodnight. ^_^

they either can't do it, or they won't.

From personal experience, its pressure I mean i went away on a holiday and missed out 3 and half wks of in put when i returned i at all had no clue as to what i was suppose to do. assignments were all due in a week after each other which left me with no alternative but to turn to them .

1 - Too dumb to complete Uni
2 - Can't be bothered

I'm intrigued to see a years old thread being revived. Nice job.

2 years actually :)

We use them if we are being lazy :)

Well, each one will have different reasons for using the essay services. I assume those would be lack of time, boring topics for which one might not want to sit and write. But I know people who also order the essays and then use the points from the assignment to write on their own. The approach is better i think. :)

There are rich kids who would rather shell out lots of money than do the work; there are working professionals who need a master's degree to get a promotion/raise but don't actually need the knowledge and who don't have the time with their full-time job to do the work for the degree; there are people in the military who would rather spend their time on leave with their family then with their textbooks. All kinds of students, all kinds of reasons.

Then there are the ESL speaking customers you extort and then report to their universities. Hey lunch-box, how could you forget those?

Then there's editor75, who is so broke now that he can't resell his old work that he spends a year trying (and failing) to come up with an original fat joke.

Then there's the essayscam moderators, who never act faster than when they figure out I stopped by, because they don't like anyone here who doesn't get in line and suck c**k like they're told. Looks like editor75's been a GOOD boy, though.

It's been fun, essayscammers. Enjoy your bickering, editor75. Other than your whining about technologies and legal frameworks you don't understand, it's all you have left.

I've said this before and I'll say it again-- projection, people. You encounter a total stranger on the internet, decide you don't like them, and find yourself with no ammo-- that's dangerous to you.

I haven't given JohnsMom any ammo-- that stuff I keep as much as possible between 1. myself and 2. my accountant. I'm not like fat boy, bragging about how I extorted my own customers on this forum, or how I have an impulse control problem when it comes to junk food-- giving people like me, who don't like them, great ammo.

In the absence of great ammo, JohnsMom, all you can really do is fill a void with your own inadequacies. I'm really sorry about your lack of finances. Things are tough all over. I find personally that the harder you work, and the fewer nutso conspiracy theories you engage in, the better. I wish there were something more I could do for you, but I have to look out for #1. Good luck!

some of the students are very lazy. Some are ESL and wish better English in their esays.
I don't think that the prices are too high. In additon, some students may be working already and do not think that they should learn anything more. They just want to have fun, keep working and get their diploma

Now a days it has been seen that most of the students hire a essay writing service to do their course work from papers to final exam everything they want that company should complete, i don't think it was ethical because through this the students will not do their work by their own, they submit the essay written by someone else. This services are making the student's idle as they are not doing their work by their own.

students using best essay and all their services will be exposed

I think we should expose the students who use their services. That's the only way to stop them. We may be destroying someone's education but thats what you need to do. If the cheaters are not worried about getting caught, then they will continuously use these services. Why bother about finding these MFs? Just hit them where it hurt the most. I have loads and loads of contact details of supervisors, universities and even the student names, how unassuming huh?

When we help these people cheat, they go out there and take our hard earned jobs through easy tactics by merely paying their way up. Do you want to be treated by a crack doctor? Maybe a bluff lawyer? Or a so-called expert engineer who cant even put a sentence together? We give them distinctions and honours for what?

You want to stop them? Then put up all their names, university names, supervisor names and paper titles up. Those who get caught, will get caught. hats the risk they took in cheating. If you know the university or department names, write to the unis and let them know that their students are using these services. If you have contacts with media, then pass on it on and blow the whistle on them. These Effing writing services MUST STOP!

Do the right thing, don't issue empty threats, they are not scared. Expose the students and then it'll stop!

I wont stop until these companies go out of business. If you really want to stop them, then expose the students.

Oh yea, all ya students - this is how it all will end? You still want the help? Go ahead, keep using their services. YOU WILL BE EXPELLED!

One more reason proving that working with an unestablished individual freelance writer may be risky (they are not bound by any company's policies and privacy rules).

*rationale

p.s. Don't feel bad -- lotsa people get this one wrong -- likewise with regime/regimen (including Stephen Colbert: "I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids").

Students use essay companies for model research they can use to inspire their own writing.

I've heard all of the above reasons numerous times (too busy is the most common), but I think the most memorable was an elderly (even to me) client who ordered a 90-page doctoral dissertation because "I want to do it for myself."

Are you insane? Your chosen S/N here intentionally implies that you're a ghostwriter for students, doesn't it? That's as ridiculous as someone with a S/N "BestCocaineDealer" ranting about wanting all drug users locked up.


You have all of this information in the first place because (supposedly) you took their money to help them cheat, and now that you have their money, you want to use their info to ruin their lives because you have a moral problem with them for purchasing what you sold them?


If that's what you believe, why would you take money to help them do what you consider to be so wrong?

Aren't you, yourself, a freelance "writing service"?

I do not know about other students but in my case when I was a student I walk up 5 am in the morning went for swimming classes and then at 7 am I came back and got ready to go to school at 8 am i reached to my school then at 2 pm after my school, I had my k=lunch then i went to a place were I work which was located at a drive of 45 minutes then I came back at home at 9 and cooked my dinner myself and finish eating around 10:30 pm.

Now, can you see how much time I got to do assignments or write essay or even think of doing homework or should I prepare for exams. I think students like me need assignment writing services in UK to manage their hectic schedule and complete their homework.

Basically to make their life easier and to do that I always opted for Fast Assignment Help UK which I feel is the best for assignment assistance and professional services regarding Assignments.

It depends on what's bothering me... maybe i WANT crack.*

Likewise:


"When the going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer. You want a CRIMINAL lawyer" -- Jesse Pinkman, "Breaking Bad"

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*That's why I never want a car with automatic brakes -- maybe I WANT to hit that guy ...

From my observation, the number one reason that a student would use an essay writing company is that the student is afraid to fail. Normally, the student does not sign up for the service for all of his classes, just the one(s) where he is struggling to get by. Hiring the extra help will assure him at least, of being able to get a decent grade with his homework and research papers. The less he has to worry about the classes where he struggles, the better chances he gets of being able to finish his course on time. It isn't about trying to beat the system, being lazy, or too busy. It is all about simply wanting to keep his head above water when he feels like he is drowning with no help in sight. The writing companies and the writers sometimes also act as tutors for the student. That is because the student sometimes finds that the complex assignment or research paper is really just a simple presentation when done by someone else. He understands the class and the lessons better, thus he gets the chance to perform better in the actual class. So the essay writing company and its writers, provided they are not scams, actually provide a vital and helpful service that makes the students want to continue using their services.

The short answer is that most people hate writing and don't plan on having to do much of it ever again after they get their degrees.

The longer answer, in my opinion, and after having written about 8,000 essays for hundreds of students since 2003, is that the main reason so many students use writing services seems to be that academic institutions assign much more writing than is really necessary for most students to become whatever they're going to school to become. Obviously, if someone is hoping to become a professional journalist or to join the academic profession, he needs to perfect his writing and researching skills. On the other hand, if someone plans to become a nurse or an engineer or an IT professional, he really only needs to know how to express himself in writing in the form of memos and emails and other types of writing that don't really require much more than one learns in any undergraduate Writing class. Arguably, there's little reason to require aspiring nurses and engineers and IT professionals to produce "research papers" on the history of their respective fields; and the same goes for requiring students in general elective courses to produce as many essays as they typically assign. The fact that the topic of these assigned writing projects is usually totally up to the student supports the notion that there's nothing that important, substantively, about the topic. Nurses need to learn medicine; engineers need to learn engineering concepts; and IT professionals need to learn about IT systems, not how to write about them. They also need to learn to think critically, especially in relation to their fields; but writing assignments are hardly the best way (or the fifth-best way) to teach critical thinking.

Academic institutions seem to do this partly because of longstanding "traditional" approaches to education and simply because it's a much easier way to churn out graduates with degrees than actually teaching critical thinking to all of them. Consider that if a successful engineer or nurse or IT professional tells you that the last time he was ever required to write 5 or 10 pages on anything was many years ago in college or grad school -- and, much more often than not, that's precisely the case -- then, by definition, those writing exercises were probably unnecessary for that person's education in the first place.

What most undergraduates do to fulfill their assigned writing projects usually barely qualifies as "academic writing" (especially in the US). Typically, they just cobble together the cited thoughts of the authors of their sources or they saturate their essays with a ridiculous number of direct quotes; and either way, they don't add much of their own thoughts or analyses in between. Most undergraduates who aren't preparing to enter fields that require much writing after their graduation worry a lot more about just filling the minimum number of pages assigned and getting done with the assignment than they worry about what they're actually putting together or about learning anything from the experience. As long as all those paraphrased passages and/or block quotes are referenced and whatever isn't cited passes the plagiarism scan, that level of "scholarship" is usually good for a low "B" in most American undergraduate institutions.

I'm not complaining or even criticizing; I'm simply sharing what genuinely seems to me to explain why we can earn a living doing this. In my opinion, if writing were only assigned to students roughly in proportion to how much it might actually benefit their intellectual and professional development and serve their needs, there wouldn't be enough work to support this industry.

I wonder if there are stats about the number of writing/research homework today vs. 5-10 years ago (I'm not even sure if the trend is upwards or downwards; the upwards trend may be associated with more online education programs only).

@Major I am sure that there are stats that exist with regards to the amount of writing homework today vis-a-vis 5-10 years ago. I suspect though that the data is a closely guarded secret of the academic writing companies and freelance writers. The academic writing companies keep track of the trend because they base the per page rate of the active writers on the increase or decline of the order numbers coming in. The freelancers have a pretty good idea as to what their bank accounts looked like on a year to year or month to month basis. So those factors would pretty much help create a "guesstimate" of what the stats and trend might be.

Without knowing the possible rate of increase or decrease in orders though, and just basing it on the rate of orders coming in at the company where I work and the work load of my friends contracted by other academic writing companies, it would seem that there is a down ward trend in orders for both physical and online classes. There are not enough orders in the pipeline to go around the active writers.

Students use academic writing companies to give them more time to enjoy their youth. Or at least, that was the reason that they used most of the time in the past. The students actually had a social life back then because the student social scene was vibrant with activity and enjoyment. These days though, students find it difficult to group themselves into any social activity. Between Covid 19 safeguards and possible confrontations should then end up being in the wrong place at the wrong time, students opt to stay home and do most of the work themselves. It may take some time but the students will eventually come back to using writing services, for the same reasons they had in the past. The reasons never change, only the circumstances of the student in terms of social requirements.

Would anyone ever actually use these services?

I was wondering what reasons people would want to use these services?

I use them for a single reason. I have a lot of responsibility in real life and should take care of a job and also my mother. I seriously have no time to waste for some stupid coursework contributing nothing to my career. That's why I use essay writing companies.

I have tried a few. Have positive and negative experience. I know what to choose now.