Ain't No Such Thing as a 1-pg "Ph.D" Paper...

...and there ain't no way to "thoroughly discuss" 5 regulatory organizations in a single page.

If you're obviously a college freshman (at most), don't select "Ph.D" level from the dropdown box and definitely don't give us further reminders (in all caps, no less) that you really need to make sure that your single-page paper will be at the "Ph.D" level and that we "thoroughly" discuss anything, much less "at least" five listed organizations. As writers, all we hear from that is "Guaranteed to be a problem customer who will waste our time with ridiculous complaints and demands for a rewrite for a silly little paper."

First, most of us have actually earned our own advanced degrees and we know there's no such thing as any single-page "Ph.D" essay on anything;

Second, Ph.D programs don't assign topics like "Explain what Engineering is and why it is so important to society"; and

Third, it's not possible to discuss anything "thoroughly" in one page, much less "at least" five listed regulatory organizations.

When we see that nonsense in an order, many of us stay clear of it just because it's so delusional and annoying that we want nothing to do with it (or you). You don't have to try to impress us and you don't need to try to "trick" us into giving you our best work. We always do our best because we want you to keep requesting us in the future.

Just place the order exactly as your assignment reads; tell us your actual level of school so that we can do our best to help you; and take a look at any page from any academic essay first to see how much information you can reasonably ask for in a single page of writing.

[NOTE: The details and subject matter of the order have been completely changed to protect the clueless.]

do you have to pay for turnitin?

If you're an undergrad, what's the best way to ensure that the writing quality will be good?

I did notice that some companies offer a "premium" service, so I guess that's one way to do it.

From my understanding, academic institutions pay for a turnitin subscription but they also have a student version. In my opinion, the best way to find a quality product is to take a small risk on a short paper and stick with the first company and/or writer from whom you receive a quality product. Unless you have a word-of-mouth referral, it's always a bit of a crap shoot at first. If I were a student, I'd also look through old posts here carefully, because it shouldn't be too hard to identify likely prospects as well as likely risks you would probably want to avoid.

That's absolute, utter nonsense. It's nothing more than a sales gimmick. ALL orders should be "premium" by default.

I strongly agree with this statement. I write for a site that offers this 'premium service', but not once have I been requested to write on a 'premium level'. As a self-respecting writer, you always try to deliver the best quality of work possible. Premium service is a marketing gimmick.

Maybe it's just my personal ethic, but any writer that is truly exceptional treats each essay the same way a passionate artist treats their works of art. I know it sounds ultra-cheesy, but when you're good at something, you naturally take pride in your work...hence your work should always be 'premium.'

With respects to the opening post about ridiculously annoying super-short-but-overachieving-1page-dissertation type assignments, my solution to that problem is to set a minimum charge for essays. I justify it on the grounds that even if the writing does not take very long, it takes greater time/effort/energy to write one page about an entirely new topic than it does to write continuously in a multi-page essay....so I charge a minimum rate for 1-pagers. For my business, that rate is 2.5x the normal per-page rate.

-ACE

Maybe it's just me, but I laugh at people in general who refer to themselves as "exceptional" and even more so at those who claim to be "exceptional" writers while making obvious grammatical mistakes in the process.


Thanks, but nobody was asking for your advice and this isn't a "problem" for me. It was a simple suggestion to customers that there's no need to embellish their academic level. It applies just as much to longer papers for a typical college freshman paper (like "compare and contrast _________ ") with the "Ph.D" box checked instead of 4th year high school or 1st year college.

I don't charge anybody 2.5 x the single page rate for writing 1 page either; I normally use a unique system of charging customers who order 1 page the price of a single page. If a particular order requires research of much more "time/effort/energy" than is fairly paid by the number of pages requested, I just explain and give a fair rate for what's involved on a case-by-case basis.

not cheesy-- absurd! the artist, alone in his/her studio toiling long and hard over... some brat's homework. adding here, taking away there... it has to be perfect. and now, the signature.

wait a minute...

the passionate artist! wake up and smell the coffee.

Aww.. cut him some slack. I'm betting that err.. KISSmyACE was just trying to promote himself by sounding all "cheesy" and artist-like. God knows that doing that correctly does win a writer some clients on this site. Of course, by "correctly" I mean the exact opposite of how garr... KISSmyACE is doing it but hey, can't blame the guy for trying. :)

Freelance writer, can i hire u for a paper?

another successful info-tisement from FreelanceConartist. good luck with your new catch, cappy-- fish in a barrel!

And another totally unprovoked, baseless, vindictive comment from some idiot who says he "doesn't" take this forum seriously and who claims that he's "not" here to get clients but who monitors any thread in which I'm mentioned because he's "not" threatened that another writer is apparently much more successful in this business than he is.

I've never even been accused of "conning" anybody and I turn down more assignments than I accept because I never want any disappointed clients. Even the owner of the one commercial essay company I had a beef with here over payment referred to my being an "excellent writer." You've claimed your intense hatred of me is because I offended your "principles" by previously breaking the rules of this forum to advertise, all while you proudly announce (in the same thread) that you've supposedly taken money to "attend graduate school" for clients and "graduate" them. And all of that nastiness started when you embarrassed yourself with an idiotic post that drunk driving is a "skill" that should be practiced after I posted that lowering the drinking age was one of the stupidest ideas I was ever asked to write about.

This was a totally dead thread for two years and wasn't an advertisement of any kind. Of course, I understand that when you're angry and frustated and jealous that someone would ask to contact me because my posts suggest that I must write pretty well, anything I post in any thread on this forum about anything strikes you as an "infotisement." Maybe if your posts were written a little better and your opinions and positions made more sense, people might express more of an interest in you as a writer. Sorry, I forgot that you're the one forum member here who isn't a customer or a professional writer and that the email associated with your account here "doesn't" receive emails.

Problem is you have no research skill.

I wouldn't be able to make a living doing this without good research skills and you have absolutely no way of knowing what my research skills are because you've (admitted that you've) never seen anything I've ever written besides my forum posts. Granted, the fact that I write well doesn't necessarily prove that I also have good research skills; on the other hand, nobody really cares how good anybody's "research skills" are when he (meaning you) can't even manage to compose a single one or two-sentence informal forum post in grammatically correct English in 934 attempts over a nearly 7-year period to date.

I am not here to hire anyone or look for a job, but I just want someone to be my Valentine. LOL

People do not have to like each other. That's none of my business. I can say confidently, though, that FreelanceWriter is not a "con artist." He's been on the forum for quite some time, and I don't recall ever seeing a credible post by anyone claiming to have been cheated by him. A cheater would be outed quickly on this forum.

I go take dump.

Let me say a little more. I am a writer, too, and when I have had work I couldn't handle, freelancewriter has helped me out by taking it off my hands. So I know his work first-hand. He is a top-quality essay writer, and probably the most dependable writer you would find. He had a background in writing and editing from a previous career, and I would say he is one of the most elite writers in this business. The number of American writers who do this work full-time and at this level is very, very small. I am a writer, too, so theoretically freelancewriter and I are in competition. But I don't see it that way, and I don't mind recommending him as a great choice for students, because I know there are plenty of clients for both of us. I think that both freelancewriter and I regularly end up with more work than anyone should be able to handle.

Thank you. I'm going to quote the only part of that the mods won't delete as a recommendation:


Appreciate the backup against this nonsense. Legitimate writers compete against one another fairly and even rely on one another periodically for overflow help or to help their clients find a writer if a particular topic happens to be out of their areas. It's only the real dirtbags in this industry who "compete" by posting outright lies to trash other writers.


Exactly. Thanks again.

you tag-team peddlers are some real slick-talking bottom-feeders.

"it's not my fault that clients see my info-tisements and contact me!"

"I turn down plenty of respondents to my info-tisements!"

nice excuses, poachers. what a bunch of double-talking sh|thats. hey FW-- why weren't you banned with the rest of Essay's vultures? is it because, in addition to being a moron, you're also a kiss-ass?

It's fascinating that you'd use the phrase "tag-teaming" here. This was a dead two-year old thread without any sort of "advertisement" of any kind. Because you monitor this forum like a stalking psycopath for any mention of me in any thread, you chose to attack me entirely unprovoked (as usual) and accused me of being a "con artist." Your barely-English speaking friend with the same mentality chimed in to join the unprovoked attack. One of several competing writers here with whom I have a perfectly respectable rapport and for whom I have provided good work decided to respond (appropriately, in my opinion) to your nonsense, just in the unlikely event anybody new to this forum took you or your barely-English-speaking friend seriously.


It is further testament to your lack of this whole "integrity" thing that you claim to uphold that you'd use quotations for something I never actually said; either that, or it demonstrates pretty lousy writing and "editing" skills, Mr. "Editor." This thread had no advertisement of any kind; someone simply asked about contacting me in an old thread and you decided to attack me for it (as usual). For your information, there are about a half a dozen other respected writers here who have asked for my help and to whom I have sent work or referred work that I couldn't do, reciprocally. Apparently, you don't think I have the same right as you (or they) do to contribute to (or start) threads on this forum about any topic and that it's your role to attack me personally in every thread were I'm mentioned or where I post about anything.

Again, really fascinating that you'd use the phrase "double-talking" here. Weren't you the one who tried to justify your insane hatred of me by claiming to be so "offended" that I ever dared to break forum rules while also claiming that you "understand" the rules and only respect other people who abide by them? From my "understanding" of the rules of this forum, the company you just mentioned is prohibited by forum rule from being mentioned. Hypocritical much?

But to answer your question strictly for the benefit of others, I was told that I was going to be banned because I had been defending a company I wrote for way too much. I responded by emailing the mods saying that I really had no agenda to defend any company and I said I had no problem never doing it again if they allowed me to stay. They responded that if that was the case, I was perfectly welcome to continue my membership here. Since then, I haven't ever mentioned any company by name or responded to any posts about any specific company and I've had absolutely no problems with the mods here, only with a self-appointed forum cop who says his grudge against me is that I dared to break forum no-advertising rules in the distant past while he breaks different forum rules in the present and who cannot understand why that makes him such an obvious lying hypocrite.

While I wouldn't recommend any writer or essay company to potential customers, I would humbly suggest that the way writers here (and those who claim to be "editors") treat competing writers tells you something very important about how they're likely to treat their clients. If a writer resorts to stalking and lying about and purposely instigating unprovoked fights, that's likely the kind of conduct his clients can expect from him, too. The same is likely true about writers who can maintain amicable and fair relationships with competing writers.

As I've stated many times, I'm not competing with you. my email attached to this account goes nowhere. I'm not like you; I'm not here to get clients. the fact that you're too dumb to understand that is a big part of why I don't like you. you're here to scrape the bottom of the barrel in a mad scramble for clients, boasting and poaching on a scam-awareness site. hey, scumbag-- stop whining about not being able to be a part of the Essay Research shoe-shine gang anymore, and keep angling for suckers where you know you shouldn't be.

And why, again, did you say you are here?

Right. That's why you have almost twice as many posts here in 2 years as I have in 4 years...on a forum that's of zero interest to anybody besides writers, essay company reps, and students looking for writers and essay companies they can trust. There's probably not single person here who believes you about why you're "not" here or where you email does and "doesn't" go.


I thought you said it was because it offends your principles that I used to violate the no-advertising rule here. Why would you dislike someone just because he's dumb? I don't dislike you just because you suggested that driving drunk is a "skill" that needs "practice" and that anybody opposed to lowering the drinking age must just be "jealous" because he doesn't have those "skills." To most people (including me), that's about as dumb as you can get but that's not why I dislike you; I dislike you because you stalk my posts like a psychopath, continually attack me totally unprovoked, and lie about me outright. All on a forum you claim "not" to take seriously because you're just here for "s-i*s & gigges" and "not" to find clients. That's some serious hatred that suggests that you're obviously a liar or really a nutjob, although they're quite obviously not mutually exclusive.


I'm here to express my opinions just like you; except that I've expressed only about half as many opinions as you in about twice as much time. As far as boasting, didn't you recently boast that you "attended grad school" and "graduated" a client for pay? How come it's not OK for me to post my opinions here the same way you do (only a lot less often)? How come when you express your opinons here it's fine but when I do it (on the same topics, no less), it's a "mad scramble for clients"? Why are you here, again?


I've never "whined" or complained about anything; all I did was answer your question very directly about why I was never banned from this forum along with the two other posters who helped you embarrass yourself here on a regular basis. I couldn't care less about what "rules" you violate, but didn't you say several times that you dislike me because I previously violated a forum rule? How come you get to violate whatever forum rules you want now (like the DNM list) while hating me for violating a different rule in the distant past? What happened to your principles and your "understanding" of the forum rules?

maybe you've confused mocking and stalking; they do sound similar. I'm making fun of you on an anonymous website. you seem to have an inflated sense of your own importance. this perception of mine, more than my perception that you're an obtuse moron, is why I don't like you (though the two are probably related).

I'm here to get leads on new companies to work for, talk **** about companies that have robbed me, and make fun of pathetic peddlers like you and laughing-boy (thanks for the interest). your hilarious suspicions and their hilarious qualifiers aside, we're not in the same boat. and if I ever found myself in the same boat as you, rest assured: I'd rather chance the swim.

I'm here for the right reasons.

I'm not manipulating angry and confused customers who come to an anti-scam site.

"so which companies/writers do you trust?" is a question for essaychat.

this is not an advertising forum.

Actually, they're not similar at all:

Mocking someone would consist of something like sarcastic comments after he (meaning you) says something incredibly stupid about drunk driving being a learned "skill" that needs to be "practiced" in a discussion about the legal drinking age or maybe just pointing out that anybody still looking for "leads on new companies to work for" after 4 years and 1,200+ posts might really want to start considering an entirely different line of work by now.

That's mocking.

Stalking someone on a forum would be launching totally unprovoked personal attacks on a regular basis in any thread where another forum member posts or in any thread where his name is mentioned by anybody else when there isn't even an argument taking place.

That's stalking.

Psychotic would be justifying those vitriolic unprovoked attacks with claims about moral principles over your respect for "forum rules" about advertising previously violated by that person in the very distant past when you're not even an administrator of that forum and clearly have no problem violating other "forum rules" yourself in those very same attacks in the present. Same goes for harboring that much hatred if you're "not" really just competing (poorly) with that person for work and you're just a fellow forum member supposedly offended on moral "principle" or because of his supposed stupidity.

That's coo coo for Cocoa Puffs, Pal.

*Correction:

...anybody still looking for "leads on new companies to work for" after *2 years and 1,200+ posts might really want to start considering an entirely different line of work by now.

you can make up all the definitions you want. try looking up "red herring."

as for your red herring, although I do have a lot of posts, they don't have a lot of dead weight. know what I mean?

After reading the "exchange of fire" between FreelanceWriter and Editor 75, this is my verdict:

FreelanceWriter is intellectually way ahead of Editor75.

This looks like a case of professional jealousy to me. Sorry for playing armchair psychologist. Freelancewriter is at the top of the field. I do not know editor75 or his work. However, his posts have yielded some hints. He said he's here to get leads on companies to work for and that he considers some posters, who focus on private clients, to be peddlers.

In a previous post, editor75 has stated: "but when someone says, 'I don't write for any companies,' but still wants your business here on the forum, that's a signal for you to use caution. there's likely a good reason that person isn't able to get work the easy way."

He has also stated that he thinks this business is a silly thing to do for a career.

The thing is, writers make a lot more money on private clients. The "easy way" isn't the most profitable way. Freelancerwriter has stated on this forum that the majority of his business is from private clients. If you can get them, why wouldn't you? It's the only way to get into that highest circle of writers. I suspect that editor75 is unwilling/unable to get and keep private clients, for whatever reason. He resents freelancewriter's success.

That's true. Also, Editor75's posts are full of contradictions; every serious member on this forum knows it very well.

Feel the love!

I have no problem with anyone's taking private clients.

my problem is with their taking advantage of frustrated and confused "customers" on an anti-scam site.

it's equivalent to a lawyer chasing an ambulance.

if I wanted to hook up an email that works, start using correct punctuation, and poach here, I suppose I could. then, I could justify some of your paranoia. maybe someday... right now, I don't feel the need to, because I am not an ambulance-chaser (FW) or a desperate moron (MeowCon).


that's okay...; if you're here to scope for clients, as well, it's in your best interest to try and make me look bad, in whatever pathetic way you can muster. next time, try not to blush first.

Except that nobody here was "chasing" anybody, much less "taking advantage" of anybody. A new forum member apparently read through this very old thread (which contained no advertisement of any kind by anybody) and decided that he liked the way I express myself in writing about this industry enough to ask about contacting me. I didn't even respond to that inquiry. You decided to attack me personally and lie about me in this thread just because someone asked about me.

First, you justified your attacks (in other threads) by claiming that you're so offended by forum rule breakers on "principle" because (admittedly) I used to advertise here against the rules. Since I pointed out that makes no sense because you don't seem to have any problem at all breaking the DNM rule here (now, not only in the distant past like me), you've switched your justification for hating me to my supposed stupidity, presumably, compared to your vastly superior intellect; as though being stupid is a reasonable "justification" for hating someone, in the first place.

As far as the threshold issue of "taking advantage" of anybody, there has never been a single complaint about me by any customer since the day I joined the forum 4 years ago and you have absolutely no reason to think, much less to imply or actually state, that I've ever taken advantage of or "conned" anybody. Providing high-quality work to essay companies and private customers for a fair price, all while being very careful to decline any work I can't complete at a high level isn't "taking advantage" of anybody, especially when they contact or ask about me first instead of the other way around.

You don't care about any of that, obviously. You're nasty and vindictive, and very resentful that I (apparently) do this for a living much more successfully than you do and you're also extremely angry that you embarrassed yourself so badly in our exchange in that ridiculous drunk driving discussion. Anybody who cares to read through all this nonsense can see that without any input from me. My preference would be to ignore one another here and both contribute positively to this forum. This fight, like all the others you've previously instigated with me totally unprovoked, was not my choice to have; but if you continue, I'll continue to defend myself, at your expense much more than mine, judging from others' feedback.

Seems to me that you're the one trying to make us look bad. Probably afraid we'll take clients privately, thus directing them away from the companies that you work for. As for me, in the four months I've been on the forum, I've made $30 from a client who found me here, and that assignment was way more trouble than it was worth. I've turned down several other pieces of work that floated my way. By the time they get here, it usually means they've got a godawful assignment with an impossible deadline. And, oh, yeah, they don't want to pay much. Well, one guy had a reasonable enough assignment, but it wasn't up my alley and it was British.

that's great; full disclosure! see, it is the bottom of the barrel.

let's keep in mind that FW's "reputation" on this site was pumped substantially by the ****** shoe-shine club, all of whom, excepting FWeasel, are now banned.

the rules are simple, and you're breaking them if you use this forum to conduct business. apparently, you're also predating on vulnerable "customers" for what amounts to dregs.

Apparently, your reading comprehension is lacking. Either that, or you live in a country where $30 over four months would be serious coin.

Apparently, the "rules" you supposedly hate me for violating aren't quite simple enough, seeing as your post (#39) is the only one in this entire thread that was actually edited by the Forum Admin for breaking a forum rule.

Clearly, "rule breaking" can't possibly be the reason you detest me, leaving only your justification that you hate me because I'm "obtuse" and a "moron." While I readily admit that the number of people smarter than me is uncountably large, I think it's a pretty safe bet that nobody reading our respective contributions to this or any other thread confuses you with having even a slight chance of being one of them. You embarrassed yourself badly here essayscam.org/forum/rt/sgt-wants-word-essay-tomorrow-3736/#msg606 13 and you've been retaliating against me for that self-inflicted wound to your ego ever since by attacking me without the slightest provocation in every thread where my name is mentioned or where I post anything on this forum.


My reputation, whatever it is, is also partly attributable to the fact that the other person you're now at war with here has also seen my work first-hand and that even the company owner with whom I had a bitter falling out over a money dispute referred to my being an "excellent writer" after that falling out and repeatedly referred to me as "the best in the business" before that falling out.

oh, you're quoting Hala about your skills? are you delusional, as well?

All anybody has to do to confirm and figure out whether it's you or me who is delusional is use the search function here with the following parameters:

Search Terms: "an excellent writer" or "writing was excellent"
In Messages (not Topic Titles)
Since January 2010

There are many more, but that would require typing out the name of someone I'm not looking to provoke another fight with here.