No surprises there. The proliferation of online universities and modular forms of education have made it even easier for "students" these days to "attend" classes and pass their requirements for a grade without breaking a sweat. They enroll, grab the class requirements list, attend classes whenever they can, then pass on the hard work of actually studying and completing the requirements for the course over to paid hands. Most of the students that do this say that they are working students who just requires the certification for their already existing job in order to get a promotion or whatever.

These students don't have the time to read the materials, much less take the actual exams, so they pay someone to do it for them. The universities are getting wiser though, the systems of some universities actually do an IP check now and block the access of any student who tries to log in from out of the country (as registered by the student). This is the best way for universities (as far as they know) to combat student cheating. The student's and writers are wiser than the university heads are though and eventually, they will find a way around that IP address block, even if they have to mask their IP's somehow to do it.

From what I have heard, it is possible to advertise on this forum. Provided you are willing to spend on it. The highlighted names, as can be seen in this thread, that has the highlighted term "FEATURED" alongside it means that a particular company or writer is paying for the privilege to advertise the company or independent writing services of the given company or writer. This is the closest to advertising as anyone will ever get at this forum. I can understand why, paid advertising tends to help keep the forum free of scammers and pretenders. Those sorts will never resort to paid advertising at a reputable forum because they would hate to part with their hard scammed money.

My friends who do pay to advertise here often use the Writers and Services section here. Lately though, they have been talking my ear off about how successful the EssayBrand advertising campaign of this forum is as well. It really helps them build their independent brand and gives them a venue to come across as a highly professional business person and academic writer. I don't pay for such services so I will have to take their word for it.

As a writer who was able to set my own rates with the clients, I always took into consideration the budget of the student / how much a student was willing to spend, in relation to required work hours, sources to be used, and deadline. I normally charged anywhere from upwards of $100 at the start of the order negotiations, then worked it downward, depending upon agreed upon requirements with the client. I never allowed my CPP to go below $75 though because I still need to make an income on the paper.

For business clients, specially those that required me to work on multiple copywrites for their companies, I always gave them a base amount that best reflected my advertising copy skills. So I never charged less than $500 for a 2 page copy and charged as high as $2000 for a 10 page copy. I know I can go higher than that since my reputation as a copywriter precedes me every time but then I do not want to price myself out of the market so I keep the rates negotiable for my regular company clients and discountable for the first timers who ask me to do their copy.

The name of the guarantee says it all. Money Back Guarantee. That means you are getting a cash credit into your bank or credit card account due to a lack of satisfaction with the service that was rendered. Therefore, getting a credit for service from the company goes against their guarantee. Their credit cannot be considered a money back guarantee because there is no money coming back to you. The company still gets to keep the money with the hope that you will do one of two things. Either you will use the credit and they will deliver lousy service then tell you the guarantee has been fulfilled or, they can hope and pray that you simply forget about it and they get to keep the money free and clear. Demand your money back. That is what was guaranteed to you when you placed the order and that is what you should receive when you demand it.

Even without a college degree, a person can manage to make a decent living as an entrepreneur. All it takes is common sense, a desire to succeed, and an ability to recognize a niche market when it shows up. With the number of billionaires these days who got to where they are without a degree (Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) it has become evident that if a personal has a natural talent he doesn't need much of an education that is reliant on theories and research to make a go of his career. That is the true millennial dream, not getting a degree.

With the need to make money outpacing the need to finish a college education, even the academic dynamic has started to change when considering a college education. These days, specialized short term courses and seminars for people without college degrees, but who are successfully running their businesses are becoming more and more popular. This type of specialized, short term educational system is more applicable to the emerging business world of today.

Just like in any profession, when one feels that his or her talents are not being properly appreciated through a financial representation, there is only one thing a worker can do, strike out on your own. But first the person has to bide his / her time at the company, saving up to make sure that he/she has enough savings in the bank to quit the job and still be able to pay for bills and food. The person also needs to be patient when it comes to building up the new client base, if he/she isn't allowed to take his client list once the employment is terminated. Becoming an independent writer will not happen overnight, but with patient and perseverance, it beats working for a slave driver who pays sweat labor wages to the writers. It's extremely difficult to find a company that pays higher costs per page these days due to the expense of keeping the company running. The best way to earn then becomes working for oneself.

@Smiley73 make some good recommendations as to why a student should not be asking for advise as to which company to hire for his writing needs. Hiring a writer or company is always based on a personal preference/basis/consideration. While other people can make recommendations based on their own experiences, it is important to consider that each student has a specific set of requirements that need to be met by the writer or the writing company. So it is difficult and dangerous to hire a company based on recommendations. It would be better to take the recommendation at face value. Meaning, add it to your choice list, talk to the company, consider their "promises and guarantees", then decide on your own.

By using your own decision in hiring a company, you take full responsibility for the outcome of your order. You cannot blame anyone but yourself if the deal goes south or if the paper you receive is not what you expected. As a college student, you should have enough mental faculties to make an informed and logical decision based upon your academic needs.

Students are taught the basics of essay and research paper writing in their early education years. By the time they reach college, they are expected to know how to write at least a basic research paper. So it is wrong of the OP to say that students should learn how to write their own papers. Rather, students should be motivated to write their own papers. The problem, is that as a college student, they most have to write papers in classes that are minor instead of major classes for their degree. That is why they lack the inspiration to write their own papers.

In the instances when students have to write papers in their minor classes, I can understand why they would want to pass it off to an academic writer. When it comes to writing their paper for a major class, they are mostly inspired to do their own writing. In fact, I have had previous clients who have turned to me, not to have me write their papers, but to ask for my advice as to how they can further improve their already well written paper. That is the difference between having a student write a paper based on a subject he is interested in and when he is forced to write a paper that he could care less or nothing about.

If the paper is to be submitted in a class that somehow has a connection to the previous class, then the student can claim to be doing ongoing research on the given topic. That way the student can legally rehash old references coming from the original paper. The old information can then be updated with new data in relation to the new research. It isn't plagiarism when you are doing continuing research on a given topic. This type of research is normally done by higher academic level students (e.g. masters, doctorate) who are trying to become experts in a particular field. As such, there should not be a problem when a college student does the same thing based on an acceptable justification. Professors can take that into consideration and decide whether or not the student can be allowed to do the continuing research for the new paper.

Let's be open about this. A majority of the claims being made above are deceptions, at least when the writers are posting here in an effort to entice students to hire their services. For example, I completely agree with the statement that students would not spend thousands of dollars on paying a writer to create a paper for them simply for "references" sake. That is a load of you know what. The writers know the students will submit the essay for a grade, which is why they promise to deliver "original" and "never before used" papers to their student clients. They need to write fresh papers because the student will be submitting it for a grade. If they wanted a simple paper just for "reference" ,they would not pay that much money for it or they would do the work themselves.

1000 words is approximately 4 pages of work. I normally charged $75.00 per page right off the bat. That was inclusive of all the work related expenses and personal time costing. If the client made any changes to the instructions in the middle of the work schedule, I charged extra for that as well. So by the end of the work schedule, the paper was hovering around $100.00 per page already.

If the work required me to do recorded interviews, power point presentations, or some sort of fieldwork, I automatically charged for transportation, ticket costs, and other incidental expenses that also covered meals and snacks. The cost for that automatically somewhere around $200.00 with additional costs coming in for any required purchases as part of the "research" phase of the paper. I once charged a student upwards of $500.00 when I was asked to watch a formal concert that required a formal dress code for the audience. Of course I charged for the purchase of a new but simple outfit to suit the event.

Having said all of these things, it is impossible to have a preset rate for 1000 words. There are a host of other considerations to factor in when deciding on what to charge per page.

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.

The writing assignments serve to develop the analytical side of the brain in students. They are asked to read, understand, and interpret these information in written form only because that is the most efficient way for the professor to grade their analytical abilities. Regardless of what kind of profession they eventually end up doing, the need for analysis will never be removed from the required workforce skills. That is why these writing assignment, whether relevant to the career of the student or not, are a necessity in their education.

I believe that this is also the reason why professors have been encouraging students to write about what they understand more than what they think was said or meant by the original author in a cited manner. There is a growing emphasis on the understanding of the text rather the scanning of the text for inclusion in the paper as part of the research information. It is easy for any student and writer to cut and paste bits and pieces of the given work to help emphasize understanding and fulfill the word count. It is another thing for the student and writer to actually be able to explain, in great detail, about what they just read and how it relates to their given research or opinion. By doing so, the students also unknowingly turn in papers that are automatically plagiarism free.

Student blackmail is the reason why writing companies have been working on making their refund policies more obvious / seeable on their websites. A clear refund policy is what sets apart a scam company from a legitimate one. A legitimate company always has a refund policy indicated. This covers the acceptable reasons for refunds and the schedule by which a student is allowed to file a chargeback claim. By doing so, the company and the student have a clear agreement regarding the paper to be completed.

A legitimate company does not have a problem with having a chargeback policy because they are confident of their writers work and they know that they will never or very rarely need to enforce this policy with a client. Any company that does not have a clear chargeback policy or has a murky refund policy should be deemed illegtimate and a client should not deal with them.

Based on the title for this thread, I would have to say that yes, clients should find it within themselves to trust new freelancers in this market, regardless of how competitive it has become.

Actually, the new writers should be taken for a test drive because of the competitive nature of the job. Consider that when you are applying at an actual workplace, you are being asked for work experience.

Being new in the field, you don't have any. How can you gain work experience if nobody will hire you because you don't have previous work experience?

That is the reason why I encourage students to try out new freelance writers whenever they can.

Provided that the freelance writer can convince the student that he has the same ability as an old-timer when it comes to delivering a high quality product on time and within a reasonable budget.

Give the new writers a chance. They may just surprise you.

I do not believe that you could end up being detected by Turnitin or other plagiarism detecting software. While I am unclear as to whether or not you submitted the paper from the writer for a grade, what I do understand is that when you hire a different writer, you end up with a totally new and (usually) different writing style than the first writer. If you turn in the second paper from the new writer in for a grade, you should be free and clear.

Cone to think of it, even if you go through the bother of rewriting the sample paper, turnitin will not detect the work as plagiarized because it will be based on a different topic and a new presentation. You should still be in the clear because the system will be looking for totally different trigger points in the writing that will be submitted for checking.

Expect the cost per word to go even lower as these writing companies struggle with the cost of maintaining their servers, paying off their back-end staff, and new companies coming up with new ways to help students write their papers without actually having to hire a writer. The writing companies are fast discovering that they can still make money off their previous clients by simply having the writer constantly rehash the same paper. The push of writing companies these days lean towards having their writers work for slave wages at almost $0.50 per page for "rewriting" and up to $1.00 per page for paraphrasing.

They make it clear to the writers that they will be paid less for rewrites because the paper is already completed and all they have to do is make it even better by combining new research with paraphrasing. If it were me, I would pay the writers more for the rewrites instead. Either way, company based academic writers are sinking deeper into quicksand with every academic year that passes.

@Fredkarter I tend to disagree with your statement. If a student really cares about his grade and wants to get a good mark on his paper, then time is of the essence when hiring a writer. A procrastinating student who waits till 2-1 day before the deadline to find a writer to write his paper is playing with fire. The reputable and reliable writers need more time than that to come up with a well written paper. Sure there are writers who can do the job in one or 2 days, but that leaves the quality of the paper open to question.

Why is there a question regarding the quality fo the paper? The question stems from the requirements of the presentation. Does it require heavy research? Does the writer need to create interview transcripts? Does the writer need to create electronic versions of the interviews done? What specific requirements does the paper have such as in the case of power point presentations? What sort of specific editing is required for video reports? Not all the research writers are asked to do these days are just based on pounding away on the keyboard. These are actual project requirements I have had to deal with in the past that made the amount of time before completing the order a race against time with regards to its completion. There are time constraint requirements that make the proper timing of the order placement just as important as hiring a reliable writer.

I believe that an essay writer from India will only be good if he received either an American or British education at some point in his life. No, I do not mean simply attending an international school or university in India. I mean actually leaving India and heading off to one of the aforementioned countries for an education and immersion into the lifestyle and social norms of the country. Only by doing so will the writer be able to emulate, to a certain extent, the experience required for papers that require exposure to certain elements of education or social policies / considerations. If the writer manages to live and work in the country for a few years after graduation, that would be even better.

What am I driving at here? My point is that being exposed to the correct elements that can help a writer from India address the academic paper requirements of a British or US student. While they may not be in the country required for the completion of the paper, the writer will most likely have a network of contacts, located within a specific field, that can help him completely address the intricate requirements of any paper. It is only when the Indian writer can claim these qualifications that he could and should be considered a passable or good writer.

For a student who wants to be sure of a good grade based on high quality work. This question should not even be asked. A student who is serious about his desire for academic excellence should always go with a research service from his home country. Less mistakes are made that way. If you are a cheapskate though and only care about getting the job done on the budget side, then you deserve the grade that you get by going with a research service from a foreign country. Although this is really a personal preference, the fact that you are even asking this question tells me that you are not really serious about your studies.

All of the information available here should have already convinced you to not even consider a foreign company due the complications and problematic dealings that students have had with various international companies. Stick to your home country and this problem disappears. You get properly written English papers, relevant content, writers who actually know what they are doing, and a distinct chance of not being given a plagiarized paper. It's a no-brainer if you ask me.

Hiring someone in your home country to write your paper is the appropriate way to go. Hiring someone from the same university you are attending to write your paper for you will be even better. I have already spoken before regarding the benefits of such a system and I strongly urge students to find enterprising schoolmates to help them out either in finding that business-minded schoolmate or a professional writer that the student can be referred to. There are very little risks involved when one hires a writer using one of the two methods.

Hiring a writer from another country will result in only 3 things: a major headache for the student and, the need for the student to cram and write the paper himself. Then finally, the problem of having to request for / demand for a refund from the writing company, which poses a totally new set of problems for the student as well. In an effort to save oneself from stress and aggravation, it is best that the student hire a writer from his home country every single time.

Basically, academic writers are required to have a high level of education. While a college degree holder will be accepted for a job as an academic writer, he is limited in writing scope. Other writing companies require their writers to have at least a masters degree or doctorate degree for more advanced writing tasks. Based on this criteria alone, it becomes clear to anyone as to why the Kenyan writers find it difficult to gain acceptance / get hired as an academic writer at any writing company. The bottom-line is that the Kenyans are perceived to have an education but that education is not at part with international academic standards. This makes it difficult for them to compete and deliver a paper that is based on international writing standards.

I understand that the Kenyan writers who apply for the writer positions are at least college graduates in their home country. However, the education they receive is incomplete and often, backward in terms of academic standards. That makes it difficult for them to qualify as an academic writer on the world stage. They are not turned down for any reason other than the fact that they have an inadequate education, even as a college graduate, that results in their inability to come up to the expected academic writing standards of students and their professors.

Did it ever occur to you that the company management could be screwing around with the writers with regards to the bidding system? I mean, there is nothing to stop them from changing the original order placement of the client, which would have been properly priced. Since the company has control of the server and the orders placed on it, they could easily manipulate what is shown to the writers. So a straightforward order could become a "bid" simply because the company wants to pay the writers less / increase the cut of the company. They could easily pose as the client and choose the writer whose bid fits their idea of the proper amount to pay out to the writer. This is a ploy that the companies often use during the slow months. The clients would never be the wiser because all they are after is getting a completed paper.

You never know when someone who is well versed in hacking systems will successfully execute a DoS on a server. Just because the OP never followed up on his posting here doesn't mean that he did not try or did not succeed. I want to think of it this way, if he succeeded, the last thing he would want to do is let other people know what he did because he did this on his own, without a hacker organization backing him. Coming out will mean some sort of legal ramifications for him. So it would be best for him to keep his head down and hope that people forget that he shot his mouth off in a public forum.

If he did not succeed, then he would not want anybody to find out either because of all the bragging that he did here as well. Either way, he isn't going to come out on top based on his declarations. That's why I think he chose the safest path which is, to hope that this thread dies a natural death. Which it eventually will.

It may not make sense to you but it makes perfect business sense to the company owner. This is a for profit business. As such, the owner of the company will look to hire the cheapest service he can get while expecting "quality results". Think of it as the BPO industry offshoring business. The international companies hire people from the third world because they agree to work hard just to receive slave wages. The dollar or British Pound currency exchange is the main reason that they can pay these writers less. Slave wages to us means good wages where they are. The company comes out as the winner here because they pay less dollars to the writers.

So, if the company hires writers from the first world, they expect to pay those writers more due to those writers receiving actual dollars for their salary. There is no currency conversion to help them out in this case so they have to pay higher wages, even if it still isn't the proper hourly wage payment in the United States or the UK. Therefore, it isn't really discrimination but old fashioned business sense that the developing country writers have to contend with in terms of the wages they receive.

While going with the professional writing services usually turns out to be the best option when looking for writing help, a student may also look in-campus for enterprising students who are in a higher college level and have taken the same classes during the previous semester. Or, as I said before, find someone who has contacts in the writing business and use their referral codes to get reliable, fast, and efficient services. It isn't hard to find a reputable good writing company or writer within the campus if you just know how to do it.

Not everything needs to be done via company or professional independent writer if money is an issue for a student. Some of these academic writers actually got their start as under the radar writers for their classmates before hitting the big-time. Finding them on campus also offers you more peace of mind knowing that you have direct access to the writer at any given time and also, that you are dealing with a native language writer. It is easier to find a cream of the crop writer on campus because the reputation and grades of that student will be well known to most people so you know the person can do the job.

Don't worry about the writer possibly turning you in to the school officials. You both have a lot to lose in this case so this is one time that you won't find lose lips or need to worry about identity theft. That was how I got my start as an academic writer.

It doesn't matter if the information given came from a debit or credit card. The transfer of information to the other party is instantaneous these days. So the threat of identity theft, personal data mining, and other privacy invasion concerns when transacting online are real and its repercussions, scary. While the credit card companies and banks do their best to protect their clients, protecting personal data is still the primary responsibility of the card holder. So if the card holder finds himself in a situation where he needs to input his actual information online, those threats become real.

For students who often purchase items and services online, one of the best ways that I have found to help them keep their data private is by asking the bank to issue them an "internet use only" debit or credit card. That is a card that has a totally different number from their physical card and is encrypted in a different form to better protect the user data online. This is one of the other better options when Paypal is not an option or unavailable for the user.

Since Google Translate is not known to keep records of the various translation jobs it is used for by the students, it is highly unlikely that Turnitin would detect the Spanish to English translation and flag it as plagiarized. TurnitIn functions on a different level in the sense that the company itself keeps a database of previously submitted text for checking. This is what it counterchecks the other submitted essays against for plagiarism detection. So you should not be worried about Turnitin detecting a translated piece of text or paper and then triggering a plagiarism report on it. Those two activities will never meet nor cross paths. What you should be doing is making sure that the Google translation is accurate instead. That translation program is not tremendously accurate when it comes to translating technical papers and terms. That is where you should be looking for problems instead. Additionally, you should not be submitting your paper to turnitin before you submit it to your professor. If you use the plagiarism site first then submit the essay, your original work will already be in the system and that will force the second essay, the one submitted by the professor, to be detected as plagiarized once the professor runs it through the system. Just stay away from Turnitin at all cost. That is the only way to be sure your paper won't turn up as plagiarized. Don't do plagiarism checks using Turnitin.

To answer the original question, no, a simple cut and paste of a portion of a document into an email program will not be detected as plagiarism. That is, provided that you never submitted the paper for a plagiarism scan to turnitin and your professor does not submit the same document for review to the same software after you have submitted it. Remember, turnitin requires the student to submit the whole paper to the system for "investigation" before giving it an all clear. Run the same paper again for a plagiarism check after making revisions to it will flag the same paper as plagiarized because the original paper was already recorded in the system for future reference checks. So, even if you are the original author of the document, it will be flagged as plagiarized to a certain percentage.

Cutting and pasting a portion of a document into an email program is not the same as doing a plagiarism check so I would not be worried about submitting a small section of the document in this manner. I do not believe it will come up as plagiarized unless the above scenario took place prior to the sending of the email.

@Smiley73 it is my belief that there is no fool-proof way of vetting an academic writing website. Even those who advertise here can be questioned by the users and writers because they pay to be listed. As with anything advertised, there can be exaggerations on the part of the seller / writing company in order to push their services. Just because the site says these companies and writers are reliable doesn't mean it should be accepted blindly by the students. After all, the forum is paid to say that. No. The students will still do better to investigate the comments and work record of the companies and writers recommended by ES. Yes, I am one person who does not advocate in blind faith.

Although, I will consider the companies listed here as being more careful when it comes to hiring their writers and (as in the case of independent writers) the way they deal with the clients that come their way. Paying to promote the brand means these companies and writers are walking a fine line between being called a scam or being called a lifesaver by the student. So, while I will not consider all of the companies and writers listed here as immediately reputable, I would say that the companies and writers are at least more careful when it comes to their actions when dealing with clients. They put their money where their mouths are after all.

On what grounds was the DND list created? I mean, sure any disgruntled student can claim a company is a scam. A number of students who don't understand what their homework is about can claim that the writers of these companies are unreliable and don't deliver. They can claim so many things on this forum to the detriment of the company but not be able to really back up their claims. Unless factual documentation of the accusations can be attached to their posts, a screenshot will be acceptable enough, I really cannot say that I will take the DND list as a sacred truth.

At one point in time, we have all experienced the disgruntled student and the student unwilling to pay so they file unwarranted chargeback claims with their card companies. There are students who shoot their mouths off with their peers or at this forum just because they had a misunderstanding with the assigned writer. These are just reasons for the companies on the DND list to request for their non-inclusion in forum discussions. In my opinion, everything we know about these companies that counts as a negative need to be taken with a grain of salt. There are always two sides to every story and of those sides just may justify the DND request of the company or companies.

Though I am quite new to this forum, I have heard so much about the successful advertising that independent writers here sign up for. My colleagues have told me that they enjoy using the advertising services of this forum because it is always certain to bring clients to them. They are particularly thankful for the new EssayBrand section of the forum that not only allows them to advertise their skills but also helps them to create a brand name for themselves.

As with any profession, developingtheir brand and promoting it are of the utmost importance to my friends. Which is why they signed up for all the promotional services of this forum. It has truly helped them push their business forward and grow their yearly profit over time. I have yet to hear about any problems they have had both with ES and any clients they have garnered from their time advertising here.

Turnitin is just like Grammarly, they retain license ownership and copies of your work. That is why it will always come across as plagiarized either to a certain extent or in totality (if a 2nd submission is done). However, if the scientific journal does not use Turnitin for the submissions they check for plagiarism then you should be in the clear. To play safe though, I believe that it would be best to ask the publisher or editor about what software they use to check for plagiarism and then explain your situation. Opting to paraphrase your original work in an effort to have to come up as non-plagiarizes is a good option in my opinion. It allows you to retain the original content and message of the old paper while changing the presentation. That always make it a totally new paper and should come up as plagiarism free. Just remember not to run it by Turnitin this time.

I do not believe that the rate you were paid was unfair. Even if you consider that you are the one who wrote the paper and you invested time, electricity, and other sources into the completion of the paper, you still did not invest as much as the company did to get you the order. Consider that the company needs to buy and maintain servers, keep a staff of computer technicians and other back-end workers, do the marketing for the company, make deals with the clients, and act as the conduit between yourself and the client and you will understand why they have to make more than you do.

In this business, unless you are a true freelance writer, you cannot expect to earn 100% of the profits from an order. Even then, the freelance writer needs to factor in the cost of running his business, just as the company owner does, which creates a low to acceptable net earning per order. The 60-40 or 80-20 split in favor of the company represents the amount of time, money, and investment the company owner makes on a per project or monthly basis. So I cannot say that you were paid an unfair amount. In my opinion, it was simply a justifiable amount.

If a writer has the ambition to break out on his own to make a decent earning for himself, who are we to say "don't do it" ? Go-getters like the OP and others here to have managed to stay afloat and keep a decent savings account to tide them over the slow days should be admired and encouraged. Working for other people may assure a person of a regular income, but not in our line of work. If a writer is attached to a company, there may be instances when the salary will be delayed. Even with the legitimate companies, there are instances when there is a slight delay in salary payouts for reasons "beyond their control".

If the independent writer is in a financial position to try and create his own business, where he is only answerable to the client, then he should be encouraged to do so. If one wishes to get the lion's share of a student's payment, then dealing directly with the client is only way to go. The independent writer only has to pay for work related expenses then, after clearing that, all the money is his. So yes, working for oneself, or at least trying it out is well worth the effort. After all, if one has the ambition but does not try to achieve it, then he has already lost.

It's true that Craig's List has gotten a bad rep due to past problems in relation to the people who use the website. That is not the same as Craig's List being a website of evil intent or a website that promotes dark thoughts in people with the posters and users being the potential victims. Craig's List is no more dangerous to use as a services listing as Google is as a search engine. I will agree though that just like any other service hired off the web, there should be a degree of concern and cautiousness when using services hired from their site listing.

I think that Craig's List is not very popular these days specifically because of the scandal that the site was involved in previously (Craig's List Killer anyone? Prostitution and babies for sale? These were previously on Craig's List as well.). Hiring an academic writer is safer though and does not require actual face to face interaction, making the service safer to a large extent for the user.

There are some reliable writing websites out there. The problem, is that the fraudsters tend to be more visible than the reliable ones because those companies have more money to burn in terms of advertising, SEO optimization, and social media profiles. That is why it is difficult to separate the bad sites from the good ones.

The bad ones also tend to run more "umbrella" companies in order to direct more business their way, which again, creates a problem when investigating the reliability of the companies. These people pay for positive reviews just so people will keep coming to their site. As they say, a sucker is born every minute and that is what they found their business upon. I know of a few writers who have made a career out of helping to promote these scam companies by writing their copy for them. That is why I learned that the more positive reviews a site has, the more it should be distrusted by the student.

They pay for their publicity, thus making themselves seem legitimate even though they are not. Hiring a company instead of a freelance writer comes with more possible problems. So, rather than hiring a company, I think it would be best to go direct instead, eliminate the questionable middle-man and the writing process should become simpler and more on the level for the student client.

We can discuss how to assess a writing company for reliability and expertise still the polar ice caps melt and we will never come to a unified conclusion as to how to detect such websites. Assessing these companies should be based more on an individual experience. Cookie cutter suggestions and experiences don't work because there are some companies that may not be on the "legitimate" side but can actually deliver the work as promised. Some students may have good working experiences with such companies. So these students can say that they had a good working experience with the company, which translates into the company being "reliable" at least for that student.

The only way to prove the reliability or non-reliability of a company is to simply work with them. Don't start with a large cost order. Keep it simple and make sure that the money you are paying is something you are willing to lose in case the deal goes south. I would say that starting off with personal opinion papers / essays, then moving on to simple 2-4 page research papers and advancing further from there will help a student determine the reliability of a website.

I know of a number of academic writing companies that actually have a "left-hand, right -hand" payment set up with their freelance writers. What I mean by that is that after the writer completes the work, he sends in the finished product then bills the company for the amount owed on the order. Usually done via Paypal, this is the most definite way of getting paid on the writer's part since he gets to bill the company immediately after submitting the work. The payment enters the writer's account within 24 hours after completing the deal. If you can manage to get hired by one of those companies then you will definitely be one of the lucky few to be working for a pro-writer company.

Due to the non-endorsement policy of this forum, I cannot mention any company names here. However, the writer applicant is free to ask about the payment policy during the screening process. Be specific about how you want to be paid and if the company accommodates your request, then go ahead and give writing for that company a try.

I tend to agree with @Smiley73 on this one. My 2 decade experience in academic writing has opened my eyes to the fact that the company may be questionable, but the writers are not. In fact, the reason why there are varying levels of work experience between students and their writers at various companies because the writers are the ones that have actual integrity when it comes to delivering the service.

I used to work for a few of the companies that are listed under DND here at EssayScam. Now, I will admit that there are some writers who are bad eggs just like the company. However, there are also writers like myself who deliver everything the client requires of their paper and then some. So I developed a regular roster of student clients over time. There are times when my students come to me and tell me about the negative experience that their peers had with XXX company. My students of course say "I never had that experience with them and I use their services regularly. Why don't you try working with writer XXX and see what happens?"

Basically, it is my honor code that makes the student question the validity of the complaint they heard about. My honor code make the company look good and make them look authentic to the student in terms of reliable and quality services. So yes, I believe that authenticity in the service is something that is built over time instead of overnight and it is done by the writers themselves with little to no help from the company itself.

Since you just work for the company, I find it hard to call you a crook.

So the company is not based on the US. That doesn't make your company a crook either.

Both of you are providing a service in an academic gray area. Okay, your company is making false claims about its location and its writers.

That is a claim that a majority of the writing companies these days are making as well. I do not see any harm in that provided the company actually services the students and doesn't just blackmail them or deliver cookie cutter papers.

It is only if the company does not deliver on its promises or when they blackmail the students that I would consider the company as composed of a bunch of crooks.

Getting back to you... I don't consider you a crook for working for the company for as long as you are not doing a disservice to your clients. You are a writer, you are trying to earn an honest living without turning to stealing or blackmailing. If you are working based on good intentions, then you can never be a crook in my book. Even if you do not work for an American company or if the company you are working for is lying about its location and its writing staff.

I beg to disagree @Smiley73. I would not go all out to say that students should seek out legitimate writers alone. There are more risk factors involved in turning over personal data to an individual than there are if you turn over the masked data to a writing company. The legitimate writing service can be found if the student takes the time to do so. For one thing, they should not use companies that are found via social media. There is no way of investigiating the legitimacy of the companies that exist there.

However, search engines such as Bing still allow for the advertising of writing websites. That makes it easier to search for the competent companies for potential hiring. I would not hire a direct writer as a first timer unless that writer comes highly recommended by my peers who have work experience with them and can vouch for their legitimacy and lack of interest in a student's private data.

@Smiley73 personal references have worked wonders for my writing career over the past 20 years. So I definitely support that comment on your part. However, the simple investigation that you are suggesting carries more cons with it than pros as far as I am concerned. Having been part of the inner circle of several writing companies in the past, I know how these competitors become adversarial through the "reviews" process. I would not trust an online review of any writing company because they constantly backstab each other through the online review process.

In fact, there was a time when, in my capacity as a copywriter, I was hired by a number of writing companies before the start of the schoolyear to plant negative reviews about one another and glowing praises of the company that hired me. The pay was good so I did not complain, but it got me to wondering as to what other lengths these companies would go to in order to get rid of the competition. I strongly doubt any of their "positive" and "negative" reviews were written by actual clients. Well, maybe one ore two but no more than that.

It is because of the con game that the sites play that I do not believe your suggested method of invstigating the background of a company using a simple "search" process will work to the student's benefit.