This sample actually illustrates the exact opposite of anything even remotely "objective." Almost every sentence relates directly back to the writer in first person ("I," "me," and "my"), or to "this paper," none of which, of course, has any place in a "memo" or in anything "objective." The same goes for his personal "opinion." The writer would have been much better off simply Googling "sample memo" to see what a memo is supposed to look like, at least, instead of trying to find a "tool" to create one without even knowing what a memo is.

I wouldn't trust any company that can't even proofread its own website. You don't need to go any further than the second sentence of its homepage to encounter this example: "To serve our customers, we collaborate with work with the best freelance writes online."

How are they able to execute a charge from someone who isn't yet a client?

The person who posted that about gmail addresses is an undisclosed principal of essay companies. As a member here, he/she regularly posted these types of "warnings" out of self-interest, specifically to discourage prospective customers from ever using any independent writer. I was no less legitimate and no less safe to use before 2010 when I advertised only my AOL email without any website, during which time this person knew, full well, that I was a totally legitimate writer who was actually supplying his/her essay companies with hundreds of high-quality essays every year. In fact, he/she also knew that those essay companies considered me to be one of their top 3 or 4 writers (out of several hundred). Because of this person's continuous disparagement of all writers using AOL accounts without any acknowledgement that at least some of us are exceptions to that characterization, I had no choice but to create a website and to stop advertising under my AOL email.

Before even bothering with searching for specific-but-still-random portions of the project, just do a simple search using the most obvious search terms from the assigned topic. Much more often than you'd imagine, if your project was plagiarized, one of the first results of that search will lead you directly to the exact source from which your project was plagiarized, because that's about all the "research" bad writers bother doing.

No, I didn't get involved any further after finding out who the writer was. There's really nothing to mediate if someone blows a final deadline that's been explicitly agreed to and then goes AWOL without even responding for days to the client's emergency emails about the blown deadline. I asked the client just in case it was someone I knew to be legit who is normally reliable, in which case, I'd have tried to find out what happened to that writer. The one time that I got more involved in something like this just happened to be in connection with a project that I'd already declined, precisely because it was just way too difficult (even) for me; and then the same client contacted me for help a few weeks later and sent me the useless gibberish that some very inexperienced writer provided. I contacted the writer and managed to convince him that he owed the client a substantial refund, because he should have known (as I did) that the project was much too difficult; and if it was too difficult for me, this particular writer had absolutely no business taking the client's money for it, with much less experience and expertise than I have. Based on the work that he provided, he should have known immediately that the project was way beyond his abilities and that he had no business taking it on. I could have done a much better job on it, but still thought that the chances of providing something (objectively) unsatisfactory was much too high for me to take it on in good conscience.

I think we might be discussing two different things: namely, (1) accepting new orders 24/7 vs. (2) responding to communications on existing projects 24/7.

When it comes to the former issue, yes, it's true that companies can accept new orders 24/7, whether it's because they use automated ordering systems or because there are always some writers awake monitoring the assignment boards. I don't think this is what's at issue in this thread, mainly because being able to place a new order isn't usually time sensitive, particularly when it's only a matter of the eight hours (or whatever) that all of us sleep. Whether I sleep from 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM or from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, there will often be emails for me about new projects waiting for me when I wake up; and I just respond to them as soon as I'm awake and we just proceed from there. Conversely, whereas company orders can sometimes sit on the assignment boards for days without being taken by any writer, it's extremely unusual for any fulltime independent writer not to respond to a new-project inquiry for more than a half a day.

When it comes to the latter issue, what I'm saying is that there's no difference between dealing with companies and dealing with independent writers. That's because once an order is already booked, there's only one writer involved and that writer sleeps or is otherwise unavailable at times. That's no less true for any individual company writer than it is for any independent writer, because, as you've mentioned, we all need to sleep sometimes. The fact that company customers might be able to reach someone in administration at a company 24/7 doesn't help the customer reach his writer, because if the writer is sleeping or unavailable, that doesn't change whether it's the customer trying to reach the writer directly or the company reps trying to reach that writer to relay a message from the customer. Either way, if the writer is sleeping, the customer isn't going to get his response until the writer is available again to read and respond to messages. As I explained earlier, messages sent through company systems for writers of specific projects aren't usually seen by anybody except the writer of that specific project; so there's no advantage to using a company to whatever extent the concern is being able to reach a specific writer 24/7 about any already-pending project.

Wordsies, I'd respectfully disagree with this.

First, when essay company reps respond to customer questions, they can't really answer any questions for the writer without reaching the writer. So, that only adds another link in that communication chain.

Second, most of the attempted communications initiated by clients are to their writers through the messaging system. Admin never sees those messages unless they have some specific reason to look for them. That means those messages won't ordinarily get seen by anybody unless or until the writer checks for them. Admin may "watch the board" in terms of what orders go up and/or get taken; but admin doesn't actively monitor the messaging system for communications between customers and writers unless there's some specific issue with a particular order or they're checking up on a writer for possible misuse of the system (such as using it to share personal contact info with customers).

Third, to whatever extent company writers either monitor their accounts or neglect to do so, that's no different from the way independent writers monitor their email accounts. For example, as a company writer, I had the assignment board up on 3 different laptops in different rooms 24/7/365. Now, as an independent writer, I have my email account open 24/7/365 on 3 laptops in the same rooms. If an essay company writer only does this part time, he or she may not check the company board for days; and the same may be true for part time independent writers who don't check their work emails. So, that's really no different based on the company/independent distinction. However, it's a good reason to prefer fulltime writers who monitor our systems constantly, primarily because we never want to miss any new project inquiries. For most of my career as a company writer, I used to be away from my screens for about 3 hours almost every day, while I went to the gym. In 2009, I built a full gym in my apartment, substantially because that allows me to be home monitoring my screens more. At the time, it was much more about not missing any orders that could get taken by other company writers while I was gone; but now it allows me to monitor and respond to emails even while I'm working out at home, in between sets.

Whether a writer works for companies or independently, he just needs to be responsible about checking for and responding to emails and about maintaining a good backup plan for completing projects in an emergency. The only difference between company writers and independent writers in that regard is that the former only need to notify the company of the emergency while the independent writer also needs to arrange for a trusted colleague to take over in an emergency situation. In my case, that means maintaining relationships with several trusted colleagues AND having taught my wife how to read and cross-reference my calendar with my emails and how to contact my emergency backups, just in case I get hit by a bus or break my leg playing hockey and I'm totally incapacitated and unable to get to my computers and/or do my work. Nothing like that has ever happened, but I'm prepared, just in case.

This, of course, is complete unadulterated nonsense. If a writer doesn't follow the original project specs properly, a free revision is owed. This has been standard throughout this industry forever and it's also basic contract law that any service provider is responsible for providing whatever service was agreed to, initially. If a service provider refuses to cure the project upon notice that it is defective, the customer is entitled to a full refund. It doesn't matter even slightly what the company's "policy" is, but by your analysis, a company's defacto policy might as well be "If the project that we deliver fails to follow your original instructions and project specifications, that's just your tough luck because we will not fix it to conform to the specifications that we agreed to follow at the time you placed your order without additional payment." No reputable writer or company does business this way.

This is true. The longer a writer has been on this forum under the same ID, the safer you are, because it would not be possible to rip people off or to deliver sub-par work for 5 or 10 years without being exposed by one of your victims.

No writer in his right mind would ever agree to this kind of arrangement. I have no idea why you would continually promote this kind of utter nonsense. There's zero point zero chance that the TOS of your essay company operate this way, offering 100% "refunds" because your customers say they don't like the "draft" that you provided; but, of course, we'll never know, because you'll never reveal the name of the company. So, how about just explaining to us how and why this "draft" nonsense makes sense to you versus simply paying for a small section of a project and then deciding whether or not to continue with the same provider based on that small section?

If you're dealing with an unknown company, how in the world is it helpful to know what their posted refund "policy" is? This forum is full of complaints from customers who trusted those "policies" and then found out the hard way that many companies simply don't honor them at all. Some of them lie about everything on their websites, not just their refund policies.

You really need to familiarize yourself with the respective posting history of other posters before you decide to chime in to comment with your uninformed opinions about how different posters address one another and whether or not their choices of words are appropriate. FYI, the poster on behalf of whom you characterized my choice of words as a "low blow" used to refer to me here (unprovoked) as "rewriter" and routinely accuse me of not being well educated, not knowing how to do research, not writing well, and not having graduated from law school. Each of those accusations is totally false and he knew he had no basis for any of it because, among other things, he never saw anything I ever wrote besides my forum posts and he saw nothing here other than glowing comments from customers thanking me for my great work and comments from other well-known, reputable, and successful academic writers here (like Professor Verb) vouching for my work. The poster you're defending owned an essay company full of ESL writers and used to do this here as his only way of "competing" against legitimate NES writers like me. His other posts also happened to be beyond stupid, both in their substantive content and in their laughable attempts to write coherently in English, especially while presuming to criticize other people's writing.


Your reading comprehension isn't very good if you interpreted anything I wrote as any kind of "defense" for any essay company. My response couldn't have been more obviously sarcastic to the self-serving way that this essay-company owner purposely phrased his question for the purpose of trying to ridicule some other competitor's website notice about fraudulent (i.e. untrue) claims about not receiving work that was, in fact, received. That's why I answered his legal question and ridiculed him for ignoring the context of the situation that he purposely tried to twist into meaning something that it obviously didn't mean. Since you don't seem to understand what my post even meant, let me break it down to your level for you:

Some other essay company against which this guy was, apparently, competing posted a notice on its website that claiming not to have received their product after they emailed it is a crime. OBVIOUSLY, they meant falsely claiming not to have received a product that was actually delivered by email. This idiot thought he was being clever by pretending that what they'd posted was a notice that it was some sort of "crime" just to say that you never received an email. He knew that's not what it meant at all. He tried to make his competitor look foolish by asking, rhetorically, whether it's illegal to say you never received an email. I answered him that it obviously depends on the context, because if someone files a claim falsely stating that he never received a product or service that was actually delivered by email, that's criminal fraud, which it is. I don't know anything about the company he was trying to ridicule. I answered his obnoxious smart-alec question with a statement of fact about the legal question he was only pretending to ask and I characterized what he was trying to do (by pretending the other company was suggesting it was a crime to deny receiving a routine email) as stupidity, which it was.

Most essay companies don't "specialize" in any particular kinds of projects; they just accept whatever projects customers order and then they throw them up on their assignment boards, leaving it entirely up to their writers to choose whatever projects they want. They don't "assign" projects to individual writers, either; that's a complete fiction that they put in their marketing material hoping that prospective customers will believe that their projects will always be completed by dedicated "specialists." In reality, it's just first-come/first-served and, as a customer, you're totally at the mercy of whichever writer decides to grab the project off the assignment board. Sometimes, it's one of the company's best writers; other times, it's a new writer's very first attempt at writing any project since his or her own last project as a student a few months earlier. Sometimes, the most difficult projects they get just sit on the assignment board until their deadlines come and go and no writer ever takes them at all; and eventually, they just get refunded. Other times, companies take projects and then scramble to contact freelance writers who don't even work for them (like me) after they realize that none of their writers can handle the project. The last time that happened to me, I posted about it here immediately, because it was a project that I'd already had the good sense to decline after the client had approached me, first. As it turned out, that company is legit, but their automatic ordering system just accepts payment for any project without anybody actually reviewing it; so, if they don't have anybody who can do it, they only discover that after the customer has already ordered and paid for it in full.

Nobody needs to compile or maintain his own "directory" of different companies or writers. The biggest hurdle is just finding ONE reliable essay provider who can be trusted without first getting ripped off or just wasting money on all of the horrible writers in this industry, regardless of whether those horrible writers are independents or working for essay companies. It's difficult (and expensive) enough just to find a single good writer who can be trusted, unless you do your due dilligence first or just get very lucky on their first try. Once you do find ONE reliable writer, he or she should be able to handle just about any type of project that most students (especially undergraduates) will ever need. Any experienced writer in this business is already much more of a "specialist" in any academic area than the vast majority of all undergraduate students in the course involved, simply because students haven't already written hundreds (or thousands) of projects in every typical academic area. If a student doesn't have to be a "specialist" to be expected to produce a project in his course, neither does a writer, especially a writer who has already written thousands of projects in most academic areas. A good freelance writer can produce much better academic projects than the students to whom those projects are assigned, in the first place. Once you've found ONE legitimate writer who's been doing this for many years, you can also trust that writer to let you know if a project is a problem for him or her and to reach out on your behalf to a suitable colleague in the relatively rare event that he or she can't provide a specific project that you need.

Once you've found an honest reliable writer, you can trust that writer to give you an idea of his confidence level with any project. Generally, undergraduate Philosophy projects are no problem and an experienced writer who handles Philosophy should still be able to handle graduate-level Philosophy essays better than most degree candidates in those programs.

Exactly. With only one specific exception that I'll also explain, nobody ever asks for "drafts" except for first-time clients who are totally new to this industry and have absolutely no clue about how this works, and why the suggestion that clients ask for a draft after 25% of the project is completely ridiculous. As I've explained many times, if you don't yet trust your chosen writer, the appropriate way to limit your risk without being an annoying PITA is simply to order only a small portion of the project with a much earlier due date than the entire project.

Here's why asking a writer to share a "draft" (or any portion of a project) before the entire project is actually due just doesn't work:

1. Experienced writers have thousands of projects under their belts; in my case, probably about 10,000 after 20 years of doing this. That means projects that might take a student several days or several weeks to produce take us only about a day or only a few hours of work. So, let's say you order a 10-page project due in 3 weeks. Your project goes onto my calendar and I may write it next week or on Day 19 or 20. Whether I write it today or on the day before it's due, the amount of time I spend on it is the same and the quality will be identical. The main reason I don't wait until the day before it's due has nothing to do with quality; it's because if I leave it for the last day or two before it's due, I won't be able to accept other rush projects that could come in very close to that deadline and pose a conflict for me to make both deadlines. Regardless of when I write a typical 10-page project, it only takes me a few hours, not multiple days.

2. Whenever you order a project for a specific due date, what you're entitled to is exactly that; no more and no less: namely, you're entitled to your complete project no later than whatever due date you requested at the time you received a price quote. Period. Frankly, as long as I make your deadline and as long as my work is good, it's really nobody's business when I choose to sit down to write that project. So, you're asking me to see a "draft" or any portion of the project anytime before our agreed-upon due date is nothing but an annoyance that wastes my time having to address by email to explain why the answer is "absolutely not." In fact, unless you just want to email me to make sure that I haven't forgotten about your project a few days before it's due (which is perfectly fine), I don't even want to have to waste my time reading and responding to emails asking "How's my project coming along" and that's clearly explained in my FAQs. Most of the time, when clients send those types of emails, their projects are still nothing more than notations on my calendar.

3. For the same reason, experienced writers who have (literally) been doing this since before some of our younger clients were even born no longer need to write "drafts." We do our research and then we just write the project in one sitting, maybe with a snack or a meal break or something like that. Then, we let it sit long enough to do a "cold read" later, just to catch any minor mistakes and do any necesary editing; but much more often than not, the final products is almost identical to whatever we finished writing before we do a final review for any light editing that it might require. Unless it's a huge project, the first "25%" won't be written until a couple of hours before the whole project is complete.

4. Ordering an entire large project from a writer whose work you don't already know well enough to trust that writer is a stupid thing to do in the first place, unless you wait until you have no choice and/or unless you've already done enough research about that writer to know that it's probably not really much of a risk at all. Instead of ordering a large project and then bothering your writer for "updates" or peek previews or "drafts," just order 25% of the project (or whatever's appropriate in relation to its length) with a much earlier due date than the entire project is actually due. That's a nice and simple way of protecting yourself without being an annoying PITA to your writer.

There's one exception to that general rule about "drafts":

Sometimes, professors specifically assign drafts with earlier due dates than the whole project, whether as part of a process to help students learn how to write, or to help them avoid procrastinating, or because they know that requiring drafts makes it that much harder (and more expensive) for them to pay someone else to write their projects for them. When clients present me with projects that require drafts before final submissions, I give them two choices, one of which is (necessarily) more expensive than the other, simply because it means that I have to sit down twice to work on a project that I could probably just bang out for a likely "A" in a few hours:

Option 1 is to have me simply provide the finished project before the "draft" deadline. Then, the client can mess it up, delete portions of it, move stuff around (etc.) and turn that in as a "draft," saving my finished essay for the final submission date.

Option 2 is for me to produce a "draft" by purposely leaving things out, putting it together in a less organized way than I would normally write it, and by doing a few other things to make it sufficiently imperfect to leave substantial room for improvement. I'll then provide the final essay in time for the project deadline.

The only time clients really don't have the choice between those two options is when the professor will be returning the drafts with comments and suggestions. In that case, I'll write the draft for the draft deadline and then I'll provide the complete project for the final due date and incorporate and address all of the professors draft comments and demands.

I don't see any sites by those exact names. You just got blackmailed (successfully), because there's nothing to "close out." If you paid by credit card, you should contact them to ask whether you can dispute a charge that you paid for blackmail and indicate that you have all the documentation. As I implied originally, as far as your school is concerned, it's only a violation if you actually submit the purchased work for credit; it's not like criminal law, where "attempt" can be its own crime. In any case, if asked, you ordered a model to use only as a model and the work you submitted was exclusively your own work. Sorry that happened to you.

If you didn't actually use the work and you only submitted your own work, there's really nothing for them to report. If they actually tried to report you, just respond that you paid for a sample project and then show your school the project that they provided alongside the project that you actually submitted. They don't have any "legal team" and no real legal team would be involved in illegal blackmail. It's just a few idiots working from Internet cafes or from behind their laptops in their little apartments, or their hovels or mud huts, depending on where they're located. You didn't say what the additional $2800 was for or why you paid it. If they're domestic, you should report their blackmail to law enforcement in their state. You should also post the website right here to help others avoid this kind of scam.

Hi. You've mentioned your essay company so many times that many of us are extremely curious to know its name. Thank you kindly in advance for your response.

While the vast majority of all fraudulent essay companies are located in second and third-world countries, most companies in the U.S. and U.K. aren't really much better, even if they're not necessarily outright frauds. The main difference between the two is as follows: The former typically send either nothing or complete ESL-gibberish and/or material blatantly copied and pasted from online sources (often from the exact same sources that you'd find in two minutes by simply Googling the relevant search terms from your project title); and they may misuse your payment info to blackmail you. The latter typically do send (mostly) "original" (but very highly paraphrased) work, of very inferior quality, produced, much more often than not, either by ESL writers or by very inexperienced and/or plain bad writers (many of whom are either still undergraduates or otherwise-unemployed recent graduates, themselves, just "trying this out" at clients' expense) and whose work isn't likely to be any better than what most clients could have produced without paying anybody good money for writing of that quality.

You make it sound like they're doing you a favor to take your business. They need you more than you need them.


Just test them with a short assignment, or a small part of a larger assignment, and don't agree to anything beyond that in advance. If you're happy with the first piece of work that they provide, just order the next section. Keep things nice and simple. Don't let anybody pressure you into committing to anything beyond the specific project you choose to order, whether it's a small project or only a small part of a larger project. If anybody ever tells you that you have to agree to order more than you're prepared to order, run the other way.

If clients omit that kind of information in their order, legit essay companies that are fair to their writers will not force writers to provide free rewrites only necessitated by the failure of clients to include that information. The writer is entitled to use any perspective if none is requested. A conscientious writer with enough experience to anticipate the problem will simply send a message to the client asking for that info immediately after taking the order. A very experienced writer at an essay company will also include a notice in that message indicating that if the requested information isn't provided by a specific date and time, the order will be completed by the posted deadline as per the original specs and that any additional information supplied after that date and time won't be included in the essay.

That sounds like a red flag. First, "samples" mean nothing in this industry, because you have no idea who really wrote them or whether the actual product will be written by a writer who is as good as the writer who who wrote those samples. Second (and more importantly), paying for samples makes no sense and defeats the whole purpose of reviewing samples, because those samples are supposed to help you decide whether or not you want to do business with the provider in the first place. I have a few samples ready only for the very rare occasion that a new client insists on them even after I explain how useless they are, but I can't imagine a justification for charging for them.

I notice that one of the first things that happens when you visit the website is a prompt about executing a non-disclosure agreement. That's another red flag to me, because, ordinarily, whoever asks for a NDA is the one who wants to limit disclosure. It's probably unenforceable, but that suggests to me that its real purpose is to intimidate unsatisfied clients and dissuade them from complaining or leaving a negative review. I also notice that they use a 212 phone number, so I'd Google it and try to figure out whether they're really located in Manhattan. Googling the number also leads to another totally unrelated website about healthy marriage.

If you're going to do business with them, I'd insist on paying for nothing more than an order of a few pages, and I might give them a topic unrelated to your actual dissertation, just to see what they send you and, also, to see whether they'll refuse and try to pressure you into some agreement to obligate payment for a much larger project. Order a short project on a sufficiently-unique topic to make it unlikely that they'll already have something pre-written on that topic and run it through a plagiarism scanner when you receive it. I wouldn't send them any materials from your school or about your actual dissertation proposal, either.

What do you mean by this?

Welcome to the forum.

You're obviously ESL, yourself, as NinjaWarrior has pointed out several times, based on the specific types (and frequency) of obvious ESL mistakes in at least 600 of your 757 posts.


This is one of your siliest suggestions. First, fewer than 5% of my clients are anywhere near New York State, let alone actually in NYC or anywhere else close enough to me to make that even possible. More than half of my clients aren't even on the same continent as I am. Second, the only "writers" who might have the time and patience for this other nonsense about taking a remote "test" are, precisely, the most desperate and totally inexperienced ones that every client hopes to avoid using. Third, most clients wouldn't even know how to "test" someone's English to distinguish ESL from NES or how to identify the tell-tale signs of (otherwise) good ESL writing that any NES professor would recognize immediately.

As long as they're already on this forum, prospective clients who are capable of identifying typical ESL mistakes can simply read through forum posts to identify real native-English-speaking writers and distinguish us from (even fairly good) ESL writers (like you) who still don't know when to use the articles "the" and "a" properly and who don't know when no article is required, at all. As always, the most reliable ways that NES clients can protect themsevles against being duped into using an ESL writer are to: (1) order a very short project, first, as a "test"; or (2) simply ask the writer to talk to you very briefly by phone, just to verify the writer's real location and lack of any foreign accent.

Seriously? Why stop there? What about the cost of running my air conditioner and the snack I had while writing, and my cable TV bill if it was on, and a few hours of my rent...and the wear and tear on my clothes?

The previous comments about pricing are correct. When you pay $5 or $10 (or twice that) per page, you're going to receive something totaly unuasable and you're going to be paying a good writer much more to redo the exact same project with a shorter deadline, in addition to whatever you wasted on the cheap service, first. I get some version of that scenario coming my way approximately once a month. You really might as well skip that first step, save that money, and just find yourself a good reliable writer in the first place.

At least for the academic season. Once you find a reliable writer, you should be abler to relax because you're all set for your entire academic career as far as writing projects are concerned. The most important commodity we offer is peace of mind.


No, you will definitely not be paying any less for the best academic writers. We don't charge less than the essay companies for which we used to work, because the whole point of becoming independent writers is to be able to charge exactly what our work is worth, but without having to split any of our income with any writing company. If we're not going to charge what our work is worth, we might as well just have continued writing for companies and letting them handle all the public relations, advertising, billing, and any customer-service headaches for us.

From the client's perspective, you're getting a much better value when you use an independent writer directly than when you get projects written by the same writer through any company for several reasons:

(1) Even the most conscientious writers simply care more about projects for our direct clients than we care about our projects for company clients who are anonymous to us.

(2) We feel much less (if any) obligation to take on certain subsequent projects for returning company clients than we do for returning direct clients, and if we're busy, we just ignore or decline many company projects requesting us if we don't need the project.

(3) Clients get much better consistency from independent writers because when we ignore or decline company projects, those projects get taken by totally different writers, some of whom might not be anywhere even close to as experienced and/or as good as we are.

Therefore, assume that whatever you paid for a project from any essay company represents roughly the fair market value for that project when it's written by a random writer not necessarily of your choosing. So, understand that you're going to be paying at least that price when you deal directly with any writer who happens to be among the very best of all company writers. If you don't understand how different the quality is likely to be, just order a short project from any company and a similar short project (or even the same one) from any freelance writer with a good public reputation and then compare those two projects side by side.

Next, he'll be posting that self-plagiarism is definitely plagiarism and that professors always prohibit students from submitting portions of their projects from previous courses as though he never said the exact opposite on both counts in about a dozen different threads.

This is the exact opposite of what you've said in other threads about your own supposed business practices:


https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/ordered-pay-dissertation-writers-advise-2847/#msg82687


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/legit-academic-writing-personal-payment-exchange-1928/#msg82885

I'm doing just fine with my chosen ID, thank you. Since you're interested enough in the subject of the "username consideration process" to have resurrected this thread three years after the most recent post, what's the name that you selected for your company?

You know full well that Admin has access to our PMs and will disable them for that.

As I explained in this thread, BBB accreditation (and an A+ BBB rating) means absolutely nothing and provides no protection at all:https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/safeguard-deceptive-writing-services-common-6339/

That's because the BBB isn't in the business of "evaluating" businesses or of serving as any kind of consumer "watchdog"; instead, their business model is simply to collect membership dues from companies that want to be able to display the BBB logo. The BBB itself even makes explicitly clear that it does not perform this function. Obviously, a poor BBB rating might be a good reason to avoid a business, and that's partly because of how easy it is for paid BBB members to maintain perfect ratings. The problem is that a high rating tells consumers nothing and doesn't mean that you can necessarily trust that business any more than any other business without a paid BBB membership. In many cases, businesses with numerous consumer complaints still retain A+ ratings while businesses that are totally legit get lower ratings simply because they refused to continue paying their BBB membership dues,

There's no need to take my word for any of this; you can just read up on it for yourself right here: business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business-bureau-should-give-itself-a-bad-grade/

and here: money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau/index.html

All of the advice above from Cite would make perfect sense had the OP asked, "How can I plagiarize from my own previous essay and avoid getting caught by turnitin?" But that's not what the OP asked at all. The OP specifically asked whether using his own old essay is considered plagiarism and whether getting caught doing that through turnitin would be a "problem" for him .



The correct answers are:

(1) Yes. Reusing any part of your own old essay is considered plagiarism by every instructor on the planet. Just Google "self plagiarism" to determine whose advice on this matter is correct and whose advice on this matter is completely incorrect. You can also probably find this information in whatever honor codes your institution or professor provides defining plagiarism.

(2) Yes. If a professor finds out that you reused material from your old essay because it gets flagged by turnitin, you will definitely be accused of cheating. Some professors might punish you less harshly (such as by giving you the chance to redo the assignment) than students caught plagiarizing someone else's work; but that's purely a function of the professor's choice to be merciful about it and/or to believe that it was attributable to an honest mistake. That mistake would be, precisely, not understanding that self-plagiarism "is considered" plagiarism.

Again, there's no need to take my word for any of this: just Google "self-plagiarism" for yourself.

What is your theory about why this industry is "struggling to remain relevant" when professors are still assigning just as many writing projects now as they were before the pandemic? Why do you think it makes such a critical difference to this industry that many classes are now conducted virtually? Hasn't the submission process for written assignments often been virtual for at least a decade? (Since the title of this thread is "Theory on the Future of the Academic Outsourcing Industry," there's absolutely nothing "off-topic" about these questions.)

Are you just talking about participating in class conversations so that the professor won't be surprised that your essays are a "too good." Is that what you're suggesting?

Really? Where do you get your information? How many nurses have you known who actually write essays for other people, especially during their vacations?

In 20 years of doing this, I'd say that I've had more Nursing students as clients than students in any other major course of study. Generally, nurses absolutely detest having to write essays, and I can't say that I blame them, because their jobs require them to know clinical medicine, not to be writers or researchers. Some of them have used me for many years, through multiple degrees, and well into their professional careers, such as whenever they need new resumes and grievance letters about colleagues and supervisors. Most of them who pursue their advanced degrees do so while already working crazy hours as full-time nurses. They're also willing to pay top dollar for good work and, because they're already earning good money, and they often choose to pay me to do dozens and dozens of simple class forum posts for every class they take, consisting of nothing more than 250 - 500 words of responses to their classmates' forum posts, most of which require zero research. They could do many of these assignments themselves if they wanted to, but it's worth it to them to pay me to do them, simply because they value the free time that they save outsourcing this stuff to me and they don't want to spend their free time writing, especially after working long hours at very stressful jobs.

The second-to-last thing that any busy full-time nurses want to do when they get home from a 12-hour shift is get on their computers to write research projects and class forum posts just to complete their degrees. The absolute LAST thing that they want to do after graduating is get back on their computers to write projects for other nurses in their spare time, because if it were worth their while to do that for money, they'd never have spent good money to have me do their academic projects for them in the first place.


I've never taken a single course in Nursing, but I've written well over 1,000 (maybe 2,000) Nursing projects in the last 20 years. Everything I know about the field comes from my on-the-job training, so to speak. Meanwhile, my RN, APN, BSN, and NP clients are happy enough with my work to use me for many years and to recommend me to their friends, siblings, and in one case, even to their children a decade or more since they last used me for their own projects. In fact, I've probably had more referrals from Nursing clients than I've had from students in all other academic majors combined, despite my never having actually taken a single class in the field, let alone having a degree in it.

I've never known any freelance writer who "specialized" in any specific academic area, especially to the substantial exclusion of others, either; and I doubt that one could do that and make a living. Naturally, all of us have some areas that we like better than others and areas in which we can provide much more advanced work than we can in many other areas; but one of the most essential skills for anybody who hopes to earn a living writing academic projects is, precisely, the ability to cover a very wide variety of academic areas and do so well.

What makes you think that college professors are assigning fewer written assignments just because many institutions have transitioned to on-line learning? About half of my clients have always been students enrolled in online institutions and they need just as many essays as their counterparts enrolled in traditional institutions.

Nobody except every college professor and schoolteacher on the planet. If any student doesn't think that's true, just try to ask your professor or your teacher whether it's OK for you to "rework" your old paper for "updated use" for a current course. If you asked 100 different professors, exactly 100 of them would forbid you even from writing a totally new paper on the same topic that you submitted for any previous course, let alone a "reworked" or "updated" paper. Why do you continue to post such obviously incorrect information that's potentially dangerous to any student who doesn't know better than to believe what you're posting?