Always base your first impression of the company on the way the blurbs are written on the website. I felt a migraine coming on as I was reading through their site. It reeks of 3rd rate writers and is an obviously non-USA/UK writing company. While they may sound good in print, calling them to discuss your paper may bring a totally different experience for you. I don't think that you should rely simply on a written conversation when considering a writing service. Shop around for other services. Consider hiring private / individual writers instead. They are the most reliable you can find and the easiest to deal with in most instances.

While I am not dissuading you from hiring the company if you wish to, I would like to just offer a gentle reminder to you. Websites that come out at the top of a list always pays for that ranking. The website ranking is the worst form of recommendation that can be given to an academic writing website due to its paid nature. Being ranked high in the search engine does not automatically translate into quality service and excellent client care.

Normally, these sorts of services are being offered by academic writing companies under their "editing" program. They review the papers of students and, depending upon the instructions, the writer may offer suggestions for improvement or, the write can personally make the corrections required. There are also some online editing forums that offer professional services which can be hired for this purpose. I would suggest hiring the online forum services rather than the writing company services because the online forums that participate in these review jobs do not outsource the jobs to ESL writers. They have a 24/7 staff of ENL writers whose sole task is to review and comment on the content of the paper, offering points of adjustment or suggesting additional content whenever necessary.

Unfortunately, we are not allowed to mention specific companies that can properly do this job for you as that is considered advertising. So you will have to do the internet search yourself in order to find the right company to do the job for you. It isn't difficult to do since you know exactly what you are looking for in the editing company. Best of luck!

Progressive essay delivery will only work if the student is highly learned and asking for help in writing their dissertation or master thesis research work. It does not work for high school and college students. That is because the advanced academic level student knows exactly what he wants and how he wants to get the work done. The write will be using the blueprint the student will be providing for the completion of the work. So the progressive delivery program will work for these cases.

After each phase of research is completed the student can actually review the work, make comments, and expect to get the revisions done per chapter. Rather than paying a company writer for the whole paper and then having to review the whole thing and requesting for "revisions".

The idea is to catch the writer's mistakes so that early correction an be done. Which benefits the writer because he only has to revise sections instead of whole finished papers which require an overall content adjustment.

Essay Progressive Delivery Programs have its benefits for those taking advanced classes, not so much for the secondary and tertiary learners. I advise students to use this only if they can provide chapter by chapter expectations to the writer. If you can't, then don't use the program.

The only reason that this company is still in business is because the students are misled by the .co.uk address in the domain name. Students go there thinking it is reputable site. Specially since they have a fake UK address that leads to nowhere in the actual country. By the way, the website is also a scam in the sense that it plants malware into the computer system of the person accessing the site. If one does not have a reliable malware protection system installed, then the person's system becomes vulnerable to this infection and could unwittingly give away his personal data in the process. Definitely stay far away from that site.

The reason I strongly urge students not to use the site is, aside from their unreliable service, is because of the way that the site is set up as a phishing site. I have noticed that this has become an increasing trend with these essay writing companies and students need to be fully aware of what happens to their information when they access these sites.

The problem in this scenario is that the paper already has existing sources and citations in write. The original writer did the work which, although messed up, finalized the paper in a certain form.

As you said, there are loopholes that needed to be plugged and additional information to be included. So trying to unplagiarize a paper will be extremely difficult for the new writer. It would be easier for both sides if a new paper is ordered so that the writer will have the freedom to develop a more appropriate paper rather than having to rework an inferior version of the text.

BTW, the OP never indicated that there was any plagiarism involved in the writing of the paper. Just that he got a low grade on it. Which does not necessarily mean a paper was plagiarized. I think that the unplagiarism being referenced here is the actual paper and the desire of the student to use the same paper but with improvements. I believe that qualifies more as an editing job or a rewriting job rather than plagiarism. The correct term is also "plagiarism removal" not "unplagiarize".

Well, the spite and vitriol seems to have dissipated on the forum threads as far as I can tell. It seems like logic and decorum have won over the forum participants who know prefer to discuss in an educated manner without trying to one up each other. I guess the clients have made their choices with regards to the writers they wish to use and the writers themselves are now confident that they have gained a steady enough stream of clients to not have to bother with trying to put down each other.

I can only hope that this peace will last and that everyone, specially among the new writers signing up for membership here will be spared all of the bickering and tantrums that seemed to have been the highlight of this forum some years back. It is important that all the writers conduct themselves professionally on this board if they are to win over new clients and retain their old roster. I'm happy to be a forum participant even though I am not here to win clients. I am just here to share my thoughts and discuss with everyone else.

I am glad to see everyone finally getting along. Cheers! Here's to the continued level headed and mature public discourse that now exists here !!!

No. All sites do not hire the same writers. Most sites are merely under an umbrella company which is why they do not only share the same server for their orders, but they also share the same writers pool. It doesn't matter which company a writer was supposedly hired by because he will be working for all of the companies that the mother company owns. He just won't know it.

That is precisely the reason why the students say that no matter what site they go to, then end up with a crappy ESL based writer. It is not that the writers work for multiple companies, it is that the writer is hired by one company to work for their multiple affiliates without informing the writer. This is why it is almost impossible to hire a competent writing service these days. It is best to go direct to the source by hiring the writer personally, after a series of confidence building interviews that is.

No, you are not grasping at thin air here. You are also not asking for the impossible. There are actually capable, no, make that proficient writers at this forum who can deliver what you want, and then some.

You just need to know how to contact them so that you can make a deal. It makes me happy to come across a student who knows exactly what the job of an academic writer is. Which is, to create a model paper for the student to use. If you choose to submit it for a grade, then definitely make appropriate changes to the work you were provided.

That way the paper that emerges contains your writing style and your own thoughts. The only trace of the writing help you received should be the references and citations.

That practice creates a totally new paper that you cannot be accused of having plagiarized or having had someone else write the paper for you. Use the reviewed writers listing above for all your writing needs where you wish to use a writer but not a company for writing services. You can't go wrong.

Due to the era of political correctness and gender assumption problems, professors have tried to get students to write using genderless pronouns. Somehow the first person pronouns were affected by this ruling which, you are right, is impossible to do.

However, there is a go around for this situation.

Don't start any sentence with a first person pronoun. Simply state the facts and explain. Rather than saying " I believe", I tend to say "An analysis of the given situation proves that..." I know that it sounds like a research paper more than an opinion paper but that's what they want to read.

The problem doesn't come from the professors. It comes from all these protest groups in college that protest merely for the sake of protesting. Being paid clients, the university bends over backwards to accommodate them, no matter how illogical they sound.

I guess that's why professors have constant upset stomachs these days. Students may also be affected.

Don't look for ethical guidelines in a business run under the cover of darkness. The companies will always border on the illegal because that is the best way for them to make money. They con the poor students and writers into believing that they are legit. The writers ought to know better since they get hired even though their English proficiency would not pass the TOEFL test.

These companies need to make money so they choose to ignore the obvious, that they are writing for a sly and almost criminal entity. These companies do not practice any sort of good business guidelines and they skip the ethical considerations altogether in an effort to take money from the client and shave money from the writer's income.

These are precisely the reasons why, even when I had a chance to become a partner in a reputable academic writing firm, I declined to jump into the cesspool. I cannot knowingly hurt a fellow writer. I will not willingly cheat a student. I have my own personal set of ethical guidelines when it comes to running my academic writing business. Also, I do enough business for myself to always be financially stable even during the dry months.

Somehow I find it hard to feel any pity for the OP. Of course he knew beforehand that he had homework, research, essays, and other assigned work that he needed to complete during the semester. I have never heard of a work free semester for any student. Well, ok, I will admit that I have heard of the first week of classes being easy street with no homework or papers, not even reading being assigned because the professors just want to introduce the students to the new lessons. The next week was a totally different story though.

As a procrastinating student, I am wondering why he wasn't clued in by his failing quizzes, missed deadlines, and basically dismal performance during the semester that I am sure his professors called him out for. I guess he was one of those students who believed that "It can't be me" when it came to failing in class. I guess he got his rude awakening in the end.

The burden of proof is on the company. They need to prove that you turned in plagiarized work. It is not illegal for a student to seek academic writing assistance, which is what you could claim to have gotten from them and is also the reason why the paper you turned in was an improvement of your previous work. Your main problem will be if your professor agrees with them and tells the university that he too suspects that you plagiarized the work. In which case, the university student ethics committee will have no choice but to investigate the situation based on accusations of academic plagiarism.

Your professor's complaint, not the company complaint, will be the basis for the ethical inquiry. I know it looks difficult for you at the moment but, provided you can somehow prove that you have academic writing assistance in the writing of your paper, I am sure you can somehow sway the judgement in your favor. Owing to the length of time between the last post and my post, I can't help but wonder what happened to the case of this student. I wish he had the time to post a follow up report.

If you want to be an in-demand academic writer, you should not specialize in only one or a few fields. You should have the ability to write about any given topic because your income depends upon it. I for one do not claim to have a specialization because that means there are areas where I am weak in writing. Instead, I ask the student, "What subject do you think I cannot write about?" A clear indication that I am not limited in academic scope and that I am willing to do any task that he is able to pay for. I do not believe in outsourcing work to my partner writers. Instead, I ask my partner writers to point me in the right direction if I feel that I need guidance when writing certain papers. All I need is some instruction and the client gets the paper that I assured him he would be getting from me. So when asked if I specialize in any topic, my answer is always quick, "I specialize in all of them."

We are not protecting American students. We are protecting the academic future of all students in general. As an academic writer, I do not discriminate between an American and an ESL student. Whoever needs my help, regardless of origin or academic status, will receive my help. These people did not ask to be in the predicament they are in. Yet they found themselves in it so the least I can do is help them out. After all, they are paying for the help anyway.

An American student asks me to help him with time management troubles by having me write some, if not all of his academic papers because he is working part time or caring for an ailing relative. I don't even need to know that much information, just that he is asking for my help. Based upon our agreed upon contract, he will receive the help that he needs. I will protect his academic performance by picking up his slack.

An ESL student comes to me and asks me to write his papers because he cannot understand what he has to do to complete it. That is understandable given his situation. I also understand that he needs to make the grade in order to pass his class. Just because he isn't capable of writing the paper doesn't mean he doesn't understand the class, it just means he is not capable of writing it himself. We settle on a price and he gets the help he needs to pass the classes where he is doing poorly. Mission accomplished. His academic future is assured. What's wrong with that?

We academically protect any student who asks for help. That is the assurance that an academic writer gives all his student clients and there is nothing wrong with that.

I am not sure what gave you the idea that the company would be turning over an original paper for you to submit and get a grade for. If that was not clarified with you when you placed the order then you were asking the wrong questions during the interview process and you also did not bother to read the TOS contract. Unless the company explicitly indicates that an original paper will be turned over to you along with all the rights and privileges to use it as the original writer, then you should not have submitted it for a grade. There is a tremendous difference between writing a model paper and writing an original paper.

That is why I automatically ask my clients if they only want a model paper from me. I explain to them the difference between the model and the original paper and then they make their decision based upon their own judgement of their writing abilities, deadline, and most of all, their budget. An original paper will definitely cost them more than a model paper.

From what I understand, the reason that these companies would rather hire international writers than solely USA, UK, Canada, or Australia based writers all has to do with the amount that they have to pay out to the writer. This is one case where the owner of the company does not want to pay for quality work. He just wants the work to get done regardless of quality. Hence the lack of quality control over the papers that these writers submit to the clients. Hey, you get what you pay for.

Which is why I always laugh when a student comes to me asking me to clean up the work of a writer that he hired off a company listing. I tell the student that I'll do him a favor, I'll write a new paper from scratch. It's the least I can do for the student after suffering at the hands of these moonlighting companies and writers. They don't have any idea what custom writing entails.

Unfortunately, that isn't how the reviews work for these companies. They are out to sell their business and kill the negative publicity. Or they want to take out their competition. The whole idea is to drown out the negative reviews without actually giving the client any usable information. That's why they pay for these reviews. It's like paying a publicist to handle the problems a celebrity comes across. The writer's job is to spin the information about the company.

It is because of the "spin" that nobody should take the reviewer's word for it when they sing the praises of the client support or writer support of the company. It is all designed to make the company look good even though there are students who know what a lie that is. That's why a positive review should be read with reservations and the same should be applied to negative reviews of a company as well.

Academic writers are the people who pick up the slack that professors create. These professors often use essay writing and research papers as a cop-out from having to actually teach a class. That is why college students often find themselves drowning in research papers and essays for almost every class being taken that is not STEM based. Professors and teachers who pile on the written homework are not doing the students any favors because they won't remember anything that they researched or wrote. All the information just becomes one big jumbled mess in their heads. The only way a student can survive these days will be by hiring an academic writer to back them up. Without the academic writer, the students will just keep failing because of missed deadlines or improperly researched papers. All of which are not the student's fault.

If I were you, I would not have accepted the paper from the writer. I would not have asked for a revision, failing to deliver on the required number of pages indicates a lack of familiarity with the topic. So I would have requested for a refund instead. That is the only language that these essay companies understand and the only reason why they would take the client seriously to the point where they would request the client to wait while they reassign the paper to a more efficient and topic familiar writer. There is no sense in trying to get the company writer to follow instructions that he obviously cannot understand or proves to be a complicated topic for him. Your focus should have just been on cutting your loses by demanding a partial to a full refund. That way the writer would have been penalized for taking an order he could not fulfill as well.

I think this would fall under the definition of a frivolous lawsuit. I have a sneaking suspicion that the "complainant" is actually the ESL writer from the company. I suspect that this writer has an ax to grind and just wants to get even with his / her former boss. Perhaps the writer was released from employment? Maybe the fines applied to the writer's account for dismal writing was so much that the writer did not receive a salary several times. Maybe the writer wanted something that the company could not provide. These are all valid reasons for an ingrate to bite the hand that feeds or fed it.

No lawyer will take this case. Not a public lawyer, not a paid lawyer. They know a case that will get thrown out the minute they read it. Now, if that was high profile case where the lawyer could stand to make millions off the settlement then this person would find a lawyer to take on the case. I strongly doubt that though.

It isn't uncommon for new writers in companies to do their time when it comes to getting orders.

You still have to prove your writing quality and writer reliability to the company.

It isn't really about the amount that you are bidding for but more of a seniority requirement.

As a company attached writer who just hit the boards, you can expect the administrators of that company to assign you the crumbs because they do not know you yet. You can bid the starting price every time and it won't make a difference.

My advice to you is this: choose to bid on simple orders at first. The more experienced writers will not bid on the simple orders because those go for peanuts as far as they are concerned and their time writing for the company has booted them up the writing ladder that allows them to see the more complex and more high priced orders first.

You may also want to consider the number of bids that already exist on a particular paper. If it appears to be a popular topic with more than 5 bids on it already, you should move on and find another order with lower writers bidding. You may have a better chance of receiving that order assignment.

In this case, I would not have asked for a revision. I would have demanded for a refund based on the fact that they duped me as a client. I expected to have the work done by an academic professional and instead, I got somebody who wrote the essay using his feet! Nothing made sense in that sample post. Nothing in that post indicated that a revision would have worked. I don't even think having that paper reassigned would have resulted in a better paper because, if this writer was any indication of the quality of work that the company writers produce, they should be sued for misrepresentation. I am sure that they made their writers sound more professional than they actually were and you were conned into hiring their services because of the cheap price right? There you go. Let that be a lesson to you.

Based on the recent experience of a student here who had a horrific experience with UpWork, I would not suggest that students hire any writers from Elance either. These companies all function using the same blueprint which is to protect the writer and their financial bottom-line at all cost, I am not confident that any writer a student can hire from these freelance partnership services would be reliable. It would be better to hire a writer who isn't affiliated with these companies because it is simpler to deal directly with the writer, without the company middleman. In case of problematic situations, the student cannot expect the company to offer them any sort of assistance since they are only a "platform" and not directly involved in the writer-client relationship. As a cautionary tale, I ask that students refer to the post regarding the Upwork nightmare of a student here.

https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/upwork-review-programming-project-hourly-payment-bad-6276/

Now, I am not saying that Elance will deliver the same experience to the students. All I am saying is that students should err on the side of caution when it comes to hiring writers from middle-man platforms such as these. You are pretty much on your own when you go to these hiring platforms. There is no such thing as customer support.

All of these advice about writing your own essay and the manifest left me laughing so hard I ended up crying. A student who is capable of writing his own essay will not be looking for a writer to help him out. Those students will do their own work and then approach and academic writer to have his paper "edited" and "commented" upon but will opt to do the revisions himself based upon the professional observations provided to him. He is not going to waste time by having someone else do his work for him.

The students who hire writers are normally those who struggle with their writing tasks. That means, they could not even write a second grade essay based on "What I Did During the Summer Break". These are the students who need professional writing help. These are the students who won't be able to make heads or tails of the "Advice" about how to "Write Your Own Essay" because they don't understand how to do it.

The only thing sure is that the writing company of this person did not last a month. An experienced student can spot a scam a mile away and in this case, we can make it 10 miles. He was paid poorly because he couldn't deliver, lost time based on editing the work, and most likely, getting the order eventually reassigned to a different writer. Hence the constant deductions and "the client did not pay" claims. I can really see and understand why a client would not want to pay this writer.

Unfortunately, this writer has a chip on his shoulder and seems to think he is the universe's gift to academic writing which we can assure him he is not. Rather, is a scourge upon the writing industry that needs to be removed if the academic writing world is to prosper in the future. Since we are all still here in the same business, then I can safely assume that his writing career was done away with sooner rather than later.

I don't see Wikipedia as being an evil source of information. Nor do I view it as an unreliable source of information. However, I never used it as an actual source in any paper that I created in the past and don't dream of doing so in the future. However, I do understand that for most students, it is the easiest place to get information on any topic they need to research. It is a good starting point but, due to the open editing nature of the website, I always tell students to do further research based on information found there.

One thing that students who do their own research often appreciates about this often maligned source is that it leads to other sources outside of Wikipedia, making it easier for them to gather information, read the data, and decide which sources could be reliable or unreliable information. So don't knock Wikipedia as a source. It has its uses.

Writers who can barely string 7 words together in a coherent manner will probably be more successful as a third world writing company writer slave. I think that is where the OP will be most at home anyway. He isn't really delivering an aura of confidence with his original post. I strongly doubt that he was able to last in this business based on the way that he wrote that post. Or maybe he did, only hidden in the darkness as part of the writing pool of a questionable essay writing company. While I admire him for wishing to find a job and earning a regular income, I just don't think he has the ability to do so. Not at the time of that posting at least.

It's easy to become a financially stable writer if you are willing to put the time into your self promotion which includes knowing how to pursue writing jobs both on and offline. While I have not experienced the benefits of a writer who has an active social media presence, my friends tell me that it works well for them. While I have my reservations, I won't stop any other writer who would like to give it a try.

Hold on, you need to be clear about your intentions here. Are you planning to cite information from the previously published article? Or as you planning to simply paraphrase the entire article and then submit it as your original work? The first option, means you will be able to properly cite the materials in your paper. It will also not pass for plagiarism even if it turns up in plagiarism checkers provided you did not quote too much from original text. However, if you are planning to do the latter, then that is definitely plagiarism and you may just get caught doing so. Just because the article was not available online at the time of your inquiry at this forum doesn't mean that the article will never go live online. So tread lightly. Write an original paper and use quotes from the old article sparingly. That way you can skirt any plagiarism accusations later on.

The OP's system works well for online transactions. However, I try to avoid dealing with online clients because of the problems that I have seen my friends go through the minute the order develops problems. The seemingly endless revision requests, the threat of a chargeback or refund, and the arguments that always end in a stalemate, left me with a distaste and distrust of online transactions.

If I cannot meet you in person, discuss your writing needs in a formal setting with notes that the client must sign as an agreement to prove that complete instructions have been provided prior to work being done, if I cannot personally swipe that credit card in my portable contactless credit card reader or Paypal chip and swipe reader, then I will not take a student on as a client. I will not risk that severe financial burn.

I have never heard of an "intention to plagiarize". It is either you plagiarize or you don't. If you did not use the work that was made by the writer and you completed the work yourself, then there was never any plagiarism performed. Don't be frightened. These empty threats are just the way of the writer to mess with your mind. Don't pay the writer anything. Since you did not use his paper, then you are free and clear and the university will not care one way or the other should he even actually send an email, which will most likely end up in the spam folder of the university email account. Rest easy. I don't see you as having done anything that could result in a plagiarism complaint being filed against you by the professor and, it is only the professor who can bring forth such an accusation, aside from a fellow student anyway.

You can sign up for an account at one of the online job listings place. Place your bid on the writing orders and wait for someone to hire you. It is difficult to start in this business from scratch. That is why some of my friends who eventually start out on their own do their best to take their regular clients with them from the company that they used to work for. Stealing clients from a company seems to be par for the course for former company writers. Either intentionally or unintentionally, that is what happens.

In my opinion though, it is better to build your client base using the online job platforms. You can better build your reputation based on the trust you build with your client who may then transfer that trust to others through job recommendations, which will benefit you in the end.

Why did you agree to work on the paper without any money upfront in the first place? It is not a good business practice to work on something to completion then hope to be paid for it. You should have asked for the money either prior to starting the work or before you submitted the paper to the client. Heck, even a 50% down payment would have been to your benefit in this instance. Your business sense is questionable. I hope you learned your lesson.

As for what you can do to get even other than publishing the content, you are out of luck. Even if plagiarism checkers lead back to EF, the student can always come up with some sort of defense since the university or the professor will not bother to check with the writer claiming to have worked on the paper for authenticity. It is up to the writer to prove that the student is submitting work that was completed by someone else.

I would not consider this a case of plagiarism since you wrote the paper but asked for help to add words. If anything, you could be accused of not writing the paper, which is different from plagiarism. However, if you can prove that you wrote most of the paper, then maybe there won't be a case against you. Your mistake was admitting that you had help in writing 600 words of the paper. Remember the "Don't ask, don't tell" rule?

It is obvious that it was not necessary for you to tell your professor that you had help with completing the paper. So you should not have freely offered the information. What purpose did you think that was going to serve aside from jeopardizing your chances of presenting your paper as an original piece of work that you created? Exactly. Learn when you shut your mouth. If you weren't being asked about who wrote the paper, there was no reason for you to have made that information known.

Don't worry about the threat. The company may have misrepresented itself as a legitimate company. A legitimate company will always protect their name and reputation. They are in the business of academic assistance, not academic blackmail. Besides, the company that is trying to blackmail you will not meet any success when trying to contact the university to blow the whistle on you. None of these companies have ever successfully done that. Nobody in the academic world pays attention to anonymous complaints. Besides, even if you somehow shared your university information with them, do you really think the university will take the word of an email sent from a free email account, which is what these companies normally use? Even if they mask their actual domain name, a reverse IP lookup always gives them away. Students who receive these blackmail threats can very well ignore these bums. They can't get to you.

The only part of the questions asked above that I can confidently answer is the one about Paypal. It is definitely a safe company to deal with and, when it comes to matters of refund, expect the company to always side with the payer. Paypal is not known for siding with the payee in all instances. So if you want to know if you will get a refund, the answer is yes. You can feel safe when dealing with writers who deal directly with Paypal through a sellers account.

As for the company itself, that is something that you will have to investigate on your own. Knowing the right questions to ask and what responses to expect help you to decide whether or not a company can be trusted or if a writer is reliable. The questions though, depend upon what you need the company writer or independent writer to produce. If you feel that the conversation went well and the person or company can be trusted, then take a leap of faith and go for it.

It is never okay to submit your essay for a plagiarism check with any website. That is because all the websites that offer "free" or even "paid" plagiarism checks keep a copy of your work online for future comparison purposes. So you could submit a paper for a first round of plagiarism checking, then make some edits to the paper, then run it again in the same plagiarism program where it will then appear as "plagiarized" due to the existence of the original, unedited paper in their database.

Nothing on the internet ever comes for free. Remember that simple rule, specially when it comes to plagiarism checkers and you will save yourself a nightmarish experience. Based on the nightmare stories my clients have been telling me, it appears that the writers themselves cause the plagiarism when they do their own checking on the paper to make sure it won't appear plagiarized. Which is precisely why I do not do plagiarism checks for my clients. I tell them not to do it on their own either and leave that job to the professor. That way the possibility of producing a plagiarized paper, when the writer knows nothing in his paper is plagiarized, becomes limited in possibility.

I had a few clients who tried to trick me when I was still a greenhorn in this business. They tried to get a free paper out of me by cancelling the transaction after I had submitted the paper. This was after I saw the credit of the payment to my bank account. What did I do about it? First I tried to discuss it with them in the hopes of getting them to credit the money owed again. When that did not work, published the paper I wrote for them online and made sure to use social media to spread the essay so that it would be useless to the client. I even set up a special blog account specifically for that purpose. There was absolutely no way I was going to allow them to use the paper after stiffing me of such a notable amount of cash. Eventually, my regular clients learned to educate their referrals about how I expect to be paid for my hard work or they would miss their deadline and fail that assignment because I would make sure the paper would be useless to them.

If you were not paid by a direct client then I have to ask why you ever thought of submitting the paper before receiving payment. There should be a left hand - right hand policy for such cases. You submit the essay at the same time that the payment appears in your Paypal or bank account. Never before then. If you agreed to submit the paper first, then you were a fool who asked for it. Any writer knows that the paper gets submitted on a money down basis. I guess you are still new at this game.

Now, if you were writing for an academic company and it was the company that didn't pay you, then you are a member of the "Payment Delayed by 2 Weeks Club". That is the normal excuse that a company gives for not paying on time. They make up silly reasons such as a bank holiday in their country, a chance of payment facilities, or some other unbelieve and illogical excuse. So what do you if you don't get paid in this case? Then stop working for the company and consider what happened a nightmare experience. Learn from that mistake.

Plagiarism checkers normally indicate where the supposed original source of the text is from as part of the report. For every detected sentence or paragraph, the report contains the assumed percentage of plagiarism and a link to the original source. From my experience though, the original source that the plagiarism cites isn't really the original source at all since it refers the student to another student who wrote a similar report or posted the same quote in a blog. It doesn't matter to the plagiarism checker that my source of the material was the original printed material because it relies on a "first search return" basis for its plagiarism detection.

I more than once had to defend my citations and paraphrased explanations to a student who insisted that his plagiarism checker indicated that I copied and pasted from a blog. Luckily, I never use materials that do not come from journals, books, e-books, or academically acceptable websites. The fact that I linked to these academic sources always saved me the bother of having to refund an order when I was placed in such a situation.

Never trust plagiarism checkers. It's a lazy professor's way of doing his job. It isn't accurate and should never be taken as the gospel truth when reading a student's research submission.

A Senior Writer is a long time writing slave of an academic writing company.

He is the workhorse who keeps the company going even as he is paid mere crumbs for his hard work.

Writers at that level have been attached to the same company for at least 2 years and have been given some major responsibilities by the company, such as leading a writing pool, as part of his "promotion". It isn't really a promotion though. The higher your ranking gets, the less you get paid at some academic writing companies.

Based on the experience of my friends who have reached the Senior writing level, their cost per page goes down as their ranking goes up. The only reason they think they are getting paid more is because the work becomes more difficult and has an increased number of pages to complete. So you think that $1 per page is actually a large amount when it actually isn't. It's just the volume of work that you have to do that made it seem that way.

So a Senior writer, in my opinion, is a company attached writer who is a sucker for punishment. There may be other, less subjective, definitions though :)