I don't know what brought on that very nasty personal attack, because I have never said anything about you, personally. I have strongly disagreed with some of your arguments and conclusions and with some of your advice; and I've explained (several times) that what you posted about "automatic" copyright transfer under US law is patently incorrect. However, all of those were purely objective arguments without any ad hominem attacks, whatsoever.


It wasn't luck. When I applied to an essay company for the first time in 2003, I provided my resume and some writing samples and they offered me their standard contract and pay rate for new writers and I responded that I just wasn't interested in working for that pay rate. Then, they agreed to start me out at their highest rate because of my law degree and writing samples; but they also told me that: (1) my work would have to be top-notch to maintain that rate, and (2) my pay rate could never increase because I was already starting at their highest rate. The second company for which I wrote recruited me directly from this forum and indicated that they intended to start me at their highest pay rate, which they called their "Platinum" or "Titanium" level. I never applied for a position with them or sent them a resume or samples; they contacted me totally unsolicited through the direct messaging system here, starting in late 2010.


The first essay company to which I applied predated my US federal government job. When I applied for a Writer/Editor position (GS-1082) for a US federal government agency, I simply applied on the USA.gov website and supplied all the documentation that system required; then, I sat for an interview and took a writing test at 26 Federal Plaza, administered by the person who eventually became my supervisor. When I got the position, he mentioned that there had been 400 applicants for the position and that the reviewers in Washington said that I'd done exceptionally well on their writing test. I have never suggested that I was particularly "important" as a government writer or within any "government field," let alone fields, plural.


There was no formal ranking system at the company for which I wrote the most company projects in between 2003 and 2013. All orders simply got posted on the company assignment board and any writer could take any order he wanted. Their only "request" system relied on the honor system and consisted of nothing more than a note on the project indicating which writer had been requested by the client. Other writers were stealing those requests so often, that I suggested that something more than the honor system was necessary. Eventually, they did implement that suggestion and only requested writers were able to see those orders for a few hours. I suppose there was something of an informal "ranking" in the form of requests directly from Admin by email asking me to do projects for their friends and family that weren't posted on the assignment board and in the form of emails asking me to consider a much higher payout than was posted on the board for other difficult projects that were lingering on the assignment board.


Actually, I did quite well competing against (hundreds) of other company writers and I know from another writer who used to post here that when he first contacted them about writing for them, they specifically mentioned me and my approximate annual earnings from them in response to his question about how much he could expect to earn in a year. Until 2010, I simply did all of my independent business using my AOL email address without any website. When an undisclosed essay-company principal who used to do everything possible here to direct customers to essay companies and away from freelancers created a thread essentially announcing to all prospective customers that no legit writers ever did business under their AOL emails and that they shouldn't trust any writers without a website, I had no choice but to create one.


I've never claimed to be any kind of expert at promotion. Aside from my posts themselves, there's actually plenty of evidence right on this forum about the quality of my work, mainly from satisfied clients and also from several of my legitimate competitors who know my work and with whom I always maintained an amicable and professional relationship, despite being direct competitors for some of the same prospective customers. Those testimonials are posted right in my review thread.

These reviews are on my profile and they were added by the Admin here, not by me:

Review ID: 848282420 ★★★★★ (Excellent)
Feedback from New Client on 2 Political Psychology Projects
Charles-

Would just like to say thank you for the professional service, prompt delivery and awesome experience. I found you on essayscam message boards and I am glad I did, because I almost used one of those offshore websites that look flashy but end up delivering people subpar work.

I will be posting on the forum giving a review once the quarter is over.
Hope you have a great month and holiday season!
Review ID: 842321084 ★★★★★ (Excellent)
Feedback from Client on First of Many Subsequent Undergraduate Psychology & Communications Projects
Charles,

I want to thank you for all your hard on our project. Your truly are an amazing writer.
I would like to apologize for my panic yesterday. Please do not hold it against me for any future projects.
How do you have the patience with first timers?
Again my sincere gratitude.
Review ID: 839787241 ★★★★★ (Excellent)
Feedback from Client on Two Diferent PhD Dissertations (Ancient Roman Law & Medieval Art)
Hi Charles !!!

First, given your experience & talent in the field, you no doubt have many grateful clients. I would like to add to that pool, by letting you know that both dissertations you wrote for me did extremely well and I am floored. This year was an immensely difficult year for me and getting through this degree means a great deal to me + my family. So thank you, for going the extra mile with excellent writing, hard work and the necessary dedicated background research for my projects. Words can't express how relieved I am right now with my results, nor can they ever express how grateful I am to you. If you ever need someone to give a comprehensive (and likely gushing) review to prospective clients / forum members / anywhere else, I'll be more than happy to oblige.

Clearly, what the OP described hardly sounds like it was just a matter of a missing space or comma.


Unfortunately, the OP never followed through with this, making it impossible to know what really happened with the project and whether the OP was right to complain about it.


What the OP should have done is post the work right here; and if it was really as bad as described, the OP should also have revealed the name of the company, as well.

That's obviously a ridiculous racket. If they want to impose an earning limit for some writers, their system should simply prevent writers from taking projects that would result in exceeding any such limits in the first place; that's how legitimate companies enforce limitations. When I first started out as a writer, my main company limited me to taking a maximum of 3 projects per day; after I proved my ability to handle as many projects as I could take, they increased that to 10 projects per day, and, eventually, to 15 projects per day. To allow writers to take projects without restriction and actually do the work only to "fine" them after the fact based on those limits amounts to a ridiculous fraud. The only legitimate justification for "fines" would be some failure of writers to complete projects properly. If it's a matter of earning limits, the most they could possibly do without amounting to fraud against their writers would be to withhold excess payments for that month (temporarily) and indicate that any earnings in excess of those limits are "pending" because they're automatically pushed into the earnings for the following month.

I never really understood the need to scan anything that you know you actually wrote, yourself. Either you copied some of the source material or you didn't, and you shouldn't need any kind of program to tell you that. If your "writing" process is simply rephrasing the source material into your own words, you could simply copy/paste the source material into a Word doc and then use the Compare function in MS Word to check your working document against the original text, side by side. However, I wouldn't recommend that writing process, because, as I explained earlier in this thread, if your entire essay merely paraphrases or "rewrites" the original ideas of your sources in your own words, it's still 100% plagiarism even if you change every single word of the original, because the ideas you're expressing aren't your own original ideas if you're just rewriting the source material in different words. If you need to do a plagiarism scan on your own writing, that probably means that's exactly what you're doing; so just use the Compare function instead of uploading the work to some program that probably stores it and/or claims ownership to it under its TOS.

As I've already explained to Cite two or three times, this is totally incorrect as a fundamental matter of US Copyright Law. Submitting the work to the customer absolutely does not transfer the writer's copyright to the customer unless the writer agreed, specifically, that it does (as I do). This is why photographers and artists still own the copyrights to all of the photos and works of art that they sell; and this is precisely why essay companies require all of their freelance writers to sign contracts agreeing to transfer their copyrights to any essay produced for the company.

The only time copyright transfers automatically on delivery of the work absent a specific agreement to that effect is when it is produced by an employee who provides work to an employer within the scope of employment. Independent freelance writers are not "employees" of essay companies and they're not "employees" of customers who hire them to produce and deliver essays. Furthermore, in this particular case, because the customer breached the contract by never paying for the work, the writer would still own the copyright even if they had agreed that copyright would transfer along with the essay on delivery.

I disagree with that, and I'm about as versatile a writer as anybody, having written both academic and non-academic projects across an incredibly wide range of subject areas. Even an excellent and highly-experienced writer needs to know his limitations. There are some subject areas that I can confidently take on at the UK PhD level and others that I wouldn't touch beyond the undergraduate US level. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I have to turn down projects because I just don't feel confident enough about them and would rather skip them than have any disappointed clients. In the long run, I'd much rather err on the safe side and wait for those clients to order a project that I can take with confidence. Those clients also seem to appreciate that because they realize immediately that only legit writers ever turn away projects for which clients are willing to pay quite a lot of money.

All the more reason that one of the most important criteria that prospective clients should consider is the length of time that companies and writers have been doing business under the same name and/or forum ID. In that regard, when it comes to company websites, don't trust what those websites say about how long they've been in business, because they can lie about that as easily as they can lie about anything else. Instead, use the "wayback" machine or whois.com to see for yourself how long any website has really been in existence under its current name.

This is incorrect, as I've recently explained at least twice. Copyright does not transfer automatically with the work unless the writer chooses to transfer it to customers (as I do).

Copyright only transfers automatically from the writer to an employer; it doesn't transfer automatically to a company using the writer as an independent contractor or to any customer of a freelancer. That's precisely why essay companies require their (independent) writers to sign contracts agreeing to transfer copyright to the company; otherwise, copyright would remain with the writer even after delivery. If customers want to own the copyright to essays provided by a freelance writer, they should just ask the writer about that. If customers want to own the copyright to work provided by essay companies, they should definitely read the company's TOS very carefully, because every essay company whose TOS I have ever read expressly state that the company retains copyright to any work it produces for customers and expressly prohibits customers from claiming ownership of the work. That means that even submitting it to Turnitin violates the company's copyright (and TOS) if the Turnitin TOS require that the person submitting the work represent that he or she owns the copyright to the work.


PV retired last year, but you can be sure that if he wrote the project, it was definitely already paid for in advance. Like other experienced legitimate writers, PV always required full payment in advance for any project (or portion of any project) before writing it.

Real students who have already found a reliable essay provider on their own don't join this forum afterwards to discuss it and recommend it to others.

It doesn't really matter where you first found any companies or writers. Now that you've found this forum, just use it to see whether you can find any information about them here.

The FAQs and/or TOS of most essay companies (and freelance writers) explain how many words customers should expect per ordered "page." That makes it the customer's responsibility to order the right number of pages required for any project. They can request that projects be formatted any way they want (single spacing, 500 words per page using a smaller font than the 12 pt. standard, etc.), but they still have to pay for however many words they want according to whatever the TOS of the company or writer defines as a paid "page."

I don't even think the OP was really interested in the info. It was probably just a new trolling ID of someone already on the forum who posted that to make a rhetorical point. If you look at some posts from around that time, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who it's likely to have been.

Absolutely. As a lone writer, I have to be prepared for emergencies: I could wake up with the flu or break a leg playing hockey, or need emergency dental work (again), etc. My clients' deadlines don't change just because I encounter an emergency; so my wife knows how to read my assignment calendar and she knows the emergency procedure to contact my clients and/or the writers I'd trust to back me up, if necessary. It's never actually happened in 20 years, but it would be irresponsible not to maintain some kind of emergency system, just in case. There aren't many writers who are likely to be able to do projects that I can't do, but before he retired, Professor Verb and I used to trade difficult projects that one of us or the other was better-able to handle; and several other writers on this forum have referred projects and/or clients to me for projects they couldn't take on in good conscience.

It's a laughably-stupid totally fraudulent letter for several different reasons. Don't respond at all. You're the fish, they're the fisherman; and if you respond at all, they'll think they have a bite on the line and will start trying to reel you in. Just delete their future emails unread.

I wrote a few thousand dollars of copy for a veterinarian who found me on Elance a few years ago, but I never bothered to update my profile when they became Upwork. Other than that, one contract to write portions of textbooks, a few write-ups of medical conventions for a medical journal, ghostwriting for a couple of practicing lawyers, and some SAT sample tests that I used to write under contract for Princeton Review Books, I've pretty much stuck to academic writing for the last 20 years, even while I was a full-time Writer/Editor for a federal agency at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

Actually, (in this country) the client only owns the copyright if the company or writer chooses to transfer copyright to the client and the TOS of every essay company I've ever known expressly say that they most certainly do not transfer copyright; typically, they actually prohibit the customer from claiming any ownership or attaching his or her name to the work (just read their TOS if you want to check). It's nothing at all like working for an IT (or any other type of company), because employees of companies don't own any of the work that they produce within the scope of their employment; the employer does. Unlike employer/employee relationships, when someone hires an independent contractor, the independent contractor always retains the copyright unless he or she chooses to transfer them to the client. That's why wedding photographers, for one example, charge less if you just want copies of the pictures and much more if you also want the copyright to the work. You can always negotiate copyright ownership, but if it's not discussed, whoever actually created the work for hire automatically owns the copyright anytime you hire an independent contractor. As a matter of fact, that's precisely why all essay companies require their writers to sign a contract transferring copyright to the company; if they didn't the writer would own it for the exact same reason. My clients own the copyright to anything I write for them only because I choose to transfer it as part of our transaction.

Your thesis doesn't really make sense, logically. The construction costs of most of those attractions are borne by the host-nation, and, usually, that money comes from taxes collected from local residents. That's why even within national and state borders, local residents often pay less than out-of-state residents to use local facilities. Sometimes, facilities (such as parking lots and even local streets) are completely reserved for local residents, and anybody who parks on streets in those areas without a window decal identifying the vehicle as being owned by a local resident receives a parking violation summons; in some areas, they're even subject to being towed.

Since you posted this, I'm assuming you also want some feedback on your writing: It's overly-complicated to express relatively simple ideas and uses some vocabulary in ways that indicate that you don't really know how to use those words, even if you understand (roughly) what they mean. It also misuses some idioms and uses others that don't really exist in spoken English.


Just say "There are some advantages of differential pricing." Alternatively, just say there are some good arguments for differential pricing."


Just say "There are also some disadvantages of differential pricing." Alternatively, just say there are also some good arguments against differential pricing."

Use the words that are necessary to communicate your ideas. Don't fall into the common ESL trap of purposely trying to use the most advanced vocabulary with which you're familiar, just to try to show off your vocabulary, because that usually backfires, as it has in this sample.

Good luck with your writing.

Negative. I'm going to assume that you didn't bother reading through my extensive and detailed response and/or that you genuinely didn't realize he was referring to me before you responded. He already knew that he wasn't dealing with a "scammer" because he'd already used me several times before, and had even posted a very positive review of my services, which is now posted in my Review thread. You already seem to know that I'm an "actual writer" as well:

https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/guide-lines-use-good-website-writer-1020/#msg82511


There was nothing at all to "justify." I simply lost my patience dealing with this particular client and decided not to take his projects anymore for the reasons detailed in Post #4 above. FYI, I have plenty of patience with first-time clients who ask reasonable vetting questions to determine whether or not they can trust me on our first project; I've even allowed them to call me at home to confirm my location and non-foreign accent. That wasn't the case here, because, as is obvious both from my response and from his first post, this particular client had already used me successfully and wasn't asking me anything that I "couldn't" answer.

In fact, if you'd bothered to read my response, you'd see that I included excerpts from our actual email exchanges that led to me, essentially, telling him to get lost because he was just too annoying for me to continue dealing with. In 20 years, I've had (literally) thousands of clients; and I've only cut loose about 10 or 20 because they were too annoying to deal with. If you'd bothered to read my response, you'd also have read that I'd already bent over backwards to accommodate this client on another difficult rush request.

(To be entirely accurate, I didn't actually tell him to get lost: I just quoted him a much higher price than I'd ordinarily charge for a project of that degree of difficulty and deadline. By that time, it definitely didn't matter to me whether or not he continued using me; but if we continued to do any business, my pricing for him was going to be higher than for easy clients. The fact that I charge easy clients less and difficult clients more is even explained right on my FAQs page, mainly as a way of trying to motivate new clients to avoid wasting my time by ignoring my FAQs and related instructions for inquiring about and/or paying for projects.)


Writers should be "blacklisted" for stealing clients' money, plagiarizing, missing deadlines and going AWOL on the client, and for misusing clients' information. No writer is under any obligation to continue doing business with a client he considers too annoying to deal with, just as no client is under any obligation to continue doing business with any writer whose communication style (or whatever) he considers offensive. Clients who can follow simple directions tend to like me a lot and they're very appreciative of my work, which is why they typically use me for years. Clients who can't follow simple directions even after being reminded more than once probably don't like me very much because they don't understand that they're annoying. Even some of them continue to use me for years, anyway, sometimes, after trying some other writer or company before ordering more projects from me because of the quality of my work.


Speak for yourself and do whatever you want with your own clients. I have enough clients that I don't mind cutting loose the ones who can't get with the program and follow my very simple FAQs and directions, especially after we've already done business before and after I've reminded them several times what not to do. The frequency and size of this particular client's projects simply weren't worth the annoyance of dealing with him. That's my prerogative, just as it is your prerogative to "smile" and "count to one thousand" if that's how you handle annoying clients because you don't want to lose them. I'd rather limit my business to clients who don't make things unnecessarily difficult for me.


Negative. Clearly, that wasn't true at all.

I know of no essay company in existence and no freelance writer who issues refunds just because a client says he's "not satisfied with the work produced by the writer." For any company or independent writer to even consider a refund, the customer would have to point out some specific element of the order specifications that wasn't satisfied. Furthermore, the TOS of every essay company that I've ever known expressly limit their responsibility to providing a free revision to fix problems related to mistakes and omissions, not a refund. The only situations that trigger refunds are failing to meet the deadline and plagiarized content. Even in the case of plagiarism, most essay companies will probably offer only a revision, either from the same writer or another writer, rather than a refund, treating that situation just like other justified revision/rewrite requests.


I know of no essay company in existence and no freelance writer who allows customers to "demand" that any portion of any pending project be delivered anytime before whatever the actual due date is for that order. Essay companies have neither any control over nor the slightest bit of knowledge about when their writers choose to sit down to start projects on their accounts; often, it's the same day that the project is due, especially projects under 10 pages. The writer's only obligation, whether to a company or to a freelance client, is to deliver the project by the deadline specified originally in the order.

Counseling customers who may be entirely new to this industry that they can "demand" early delivery of any portion of any project isn't helpful to anybody, including those customers. If they're dealing with a company or writer they don't yet trust, they always have the option of ordering and paying for (not "demanding") a smaller portion of any project for any due date of their choosing. Once an order is placed with a specified due date, whether with an essay company or with an independent freelance writer, customers cannot reasonably even ask for (let alone "demand") delivery of anything before that due date. As always, the only reasonable way to limit the risk of dissatisfaction with a writer is to order a small project (or a small portion of a larger project) before ordering a large project, assuming there's sufficient time for that in relation to the customer's submission deadline. If customers don't leave themselves enough time for that, even that option may not be available, in which case, their only options might be trusting the writer or simply waiting to try that writer another time for a project with a longer deadline.

Some of my other most unconventional projects have included a (real) departmental policy-compliance audit for the chief of a police department and at least a half a dozen letters for working nurses filing grievances against their supervisors and complaints against coworkers for bullying in the workplace. That's half a dozen totally different professional nurses who had used me years before in nursing school, not a series of letters for one nurse. In fact, my learned familiarity with the prevalence of bullying and very nasty childish cliques in nursing (more often than not, based on race and/or nationality) is why I told my wife to forget it when she mentioned possibly going to nursing school. She has the wrong personality to be exposed to any of that nonsense.

There's a big difference between commenting objectively and informatively about an issue raised by an old thread and responding directly to the OP as though someone who posted a question here in 2008 has been waiting on the edge of his computer chair for a response for 12 years. Anybody who considers himself a writer should be able to phrase a response in objective terms and still comment freely on any still-relevant issue raised in an ancient post without phrasing his response as a direct "response" to the OP. There's also a big difference between posting a genuine response to an occasional old question or concern that might still be relevant a decade later and deliberately mining dozens and dozens of ancient threads day after day just to increase one's post count and rack up star ratings, starting the day one joins a forum.

Since you've already found this forum, just use the search function to check out the history of any writer here. (Always change the default "Titles" to "Messages" so that your results aren't limited to thread titles with your search term.) Understand that any writer who has been here under the same user ID for 10+ years is probably a VERY low risk of the kind of thing you're worrying about. We make a living writing projects and retaining as close to 100% of our first-time clients as long-term clients as possible, not by misusing our clients' info for blackmail or anything else; and if we'd ever done anything like that, we wouldn't have been able to use the same ID for a decade or more because victims would have posted about it and/or reported it to admin and we wouldn't be allowed to continue advertising here. Given the vast amount of information available right on this forum through the search function, you'd almost have to try as hard to find a writer who couldn't be trusted not to blackmail you or misuse your information in some other way as you would just to try to find a good legitimate writer.

I'd give aspiring company writers a version of the same advice that I've always given prospective customers looking for a legitimate essay provider. Just do a couple of small projects for them, first, and see whether they pay you what they're supposed to pay you before doing a whole month's worth of projects based on trust. Gradually increase how much work you do for them in a month to limit your potential risk if they don't pay you everything that you're rightfully owed for that month. It's not impossible that they'll pay you for your work initially and then find excuses not to pay you as soon as you do a much more substantial amount of work; but increasing how much work you do for them gradually is a lot safer than jumping in with a huge project (or dozens of smaller projects in a given month) that represents a major investment of time and effort without first testing them out with smaller amounts of work.

They probably don't allow academic ghostwriting. The same thing used to happen on Elance: as soon as I responded to some of the ads posted for academic projects, those ads were deleted and replaced with a notice that the ad had violated their policies..

College students don't need to pay anybody for old essays if they just want them as examples of how other students have fulfilled assignments. In fact, many professors actually distribute previous examples and even most of those who don't do this will happily provide them to any student who requests them. If students really want old essays only as "examples," they can always get them from their social networks at school. College students have been sharing their old essays with one another this way for generations, and long before digital social networking vastly expanded their social networks beyond immediate in-person acquaintances. Typically, they've always gotten them from friends who already took the same course or from the vast libraries of old essays maintained by every fraternity on every college campus, often categorized by year, topic, and even by specific professors. Nobody really needs to purchase old essays from commercial essay companies when one can easily find old essays right on campus that were actually used in the same course and that received good grades from the same professor. If their intended use is perfectly legitimate and only what's allowed by professors and by institutional student codes of ethics, there's really no reason to go outside of your own college campus for "examples" of good essays.


Actually, this is rank plagiarism by every known academic standard defining plagiarism. If they use any idea from any source without citing and referencing that source, it's plagiarism and if a professor notices that something in your essay was derived from a previous student's paper, it's not going to help you to tell the professor that you didn't mean to plagiarize, but a few ideas from the old essay that you read just "stuck" in your head and "found their way" into your essay. If previously-written papers still had any commercial value -- which is precisely what we're discussing here -- the bottom wouldn't have, essentially, fallen through the floor for essay companies that did a lot of business selling old essays prior to 2007 when turnitin first came on board. Likewise, if old papers still had anywhere even close to the same value to students that they had prior to 2007, the market for original essays wouldn't have exploded the way it did, starting right around the same time (2007). The simple truth is that the vast majority of the millions of college students who have used old papers in the last 100+ years used them to copy and re-purpose parts of them instead of doing their own original writing. Until 2007, many if not most customers in this industry got away with the cheaper option by purchasing pre-written essays. Since plagiarism scanning became routine in academia, there's almost no commercial market remaining for pre-written papers, precisely because they have so much less value to students.


Of course I do; that's exactly why I recounted that experience in significant detail in my Review thread right on this forum: I want my clients to know that I understand what they're going through and that even (some) people who were very intimidated by writing assignments in college eventually became good, confident, and even prolific writers. It's absolutely none of my business what my clients choose to do with the work they purchase from me (whose copyrights they own exclusively) and I'm not criticizing anybody for whatever he or she does with respect to fulfilling college writing assignments. I'm simply explaining that from the commercial perspective, pre-written essays have almost zero value nowadays, precisely because the vast majority of students who use pre-written essays don't use them in ways that are condoned by their professors or permitted by institutional student codes of ethics. If they did, I don't know that I'd be able to make a decent living selling original custom essays.

This was a ridiculously stupid question when it was first asked in 2008 and it's no less stupid 12 years later. He might as well have asked whether or not it "matters" that the writer actually provides an essay on the topic ordered because, since it's only intended as a model, why wouldn't it be perfectly "OK" to just provide an essay on a totally different topic.

No experienced successful freelancer uses any of these "service models" other than full payment in advance, for about a half-a-dozen very good reasons. First-time clients can limit their potential risk by researching a writer's history on this forum and either starting off with a small project or a small section of a larger project. You can split your project into smaller prepaid sections, but don't expect any busy experienced writer to schedule -- much less to actually do any work on -- anything that isn't paid in advance.

Thank you.

I wouldn't necessarily count on the rip-off artists slipping up during the selling phase. Some of them are very practiced at impeccably-polite customer service. They have all the time in the world to devote to customer service, because they don't have to worry about actually writing the projects they sell. Quite often, it isn't until they already have your money that they drop that facade and change their tone entirely.

Anybody who reads that website and concludes that the company is a good source of "academic assistance" is a complete idiot. Just click on any of their subject fields to see what I mean. Here are a few random examples:

Nursing Academic Help - "Nursing is a subject which requires to complete lots of assignment to prove their capabilities. This is the reason Transtutors provides one of the best Nursing academic help and tuitions on the web."

Economics Academic Help - "The growth of a nation can be calculated seeing the economic condition of the country. Economics is an essential subject and it requires in-depth knowledge of concepts. This way a student is able to score well in economics exam. Looking at the requirement of high-quality economics tuition, Transtutors provides impeccable economics tuition."

If you do business with a legitimate writer who has built up an excellent reputation over more than a decade on this forum, you don't need to worry about your personal information being misused.

Last week, I had the first legitimate request for a free revision in a very long time. It was a simple undergraduate project requiring me to analyze an article's use of the standard rhetorical tools (logos, pathos, and ethos), which is something I've done 100+ times before. A few hours after I delivered what I thought was a perfect essay, the client emailed thanking me for the project but pointing out that the original specs had asked for each rhetorical approach to be discussed in its own section instead of in a more-integrated way addressing the author's various arguments in the order that they appeared in the article. The client was so nice about it that she didn't even ask me for a revision; instead, she said she was going to have to rewrite it herself and that she would be more clear about her directions in the future. I checked the original specs and it turned out that she was 100% right: the instructions were to discuss each rhetorical approach in a separate section. Her actual deadline was later the same night, so I dropped what I was doing and sent her a completely revised essay within two hours.

By itself, the fact that a writer is "featured" obviously doesn't necessarily mean all that much, simply because it's just a form of paid advertising. However, it does, at least, mean that we're not anonymous to the forum admin because they know our real identities. The variable that's much more important to someone worried about the legitimacy and reliability of a writer on this forum is how long we've been active on this forum using the same ID without any complaints about our work. New clients should still test any writer with a small project anytime that's possible; but chances are that a writer who has been a member of this forum for more than a decade without any complaints from clients about having been ripped off or about having received unsatisfactory work is not going to disappoint any new clients, either.

Likewise, my customers own anything that they pay me to write for them and I've never even considered reselling any project for which I've already been paid by the customer who ordered it. The FAQs and TOS of most essay companies say nothing about reselling projects. Almost all of their FAQs specifically state that the company retains ownership and all rights to all of the projects that they provide and they also expressly prohibit customers from ever claiming ownership of the work. More often than not, they prohibit customers from doing anything with their work besides reading it as a learning tool and "citing" the essay company (by name) as a "source" in any academic project in which the customer chooses to use any material from the project. If the company retains ownership to the work, they can do whatever they want with it and you should assume that includes reselling it. .

Negative. A writer with thousands of academic projects under his belt is much better at finding appropriate source material than his clients; that's one of the reasons they hire a professional writer.


Negative. Sometimes, students do provide some source material, but much more often, they provide me with absolutely nothing besides the assignment prompt. If there's something unusually specific about the sources required for a project, I'll ask for them, but that happens quite rarely.


Rarely. In my experience, only about 10% of projects limit sources to course materials. In fact, the most common direction that I've encountered in 20 years of doing this is project specs that say students may use their textbooks but that the project specifically requires several sources in addition to the course textbook.


Students often need that kind of instruction because, otherwise, they'll typically use Wikipedia and other totally inappropriate source material that they find online. When students do provide source material, about half the time, it's exactly that: either Wiki stuff or simply the first few things that popped up when they spent 5 minutes Googling keywords from their assignments. I definitely don't need any "help" finding source material from students who just received instructions from their professors about how to identify academically-appropriate sources last week for the first time in their lives.


Negative. This only adds confusion and wastes time. I don't need any help from students finding high-quality sources or (especially) making sure that my work meets the expected standard of academic integrity.


OMG. Absolutely not. The last thing that any highly-experienced and very busy writer needs is to pause on every project, waiting for each client to "approve" the sources I'm using in between the research phase and the writing phase. Occasionally, this is required by the professor, and if the source list is due much earlier than the project, there might be an extra charge for that, simply because it means that I have to spend time on the project long before I actually sit down to write it a week or three later. Whether or not there's a charge for that depends on several factors, including the project type and length and the deadline; but if it's not charged, that's just a courtesy, especially if it's a project that I'd ordinarily research and write all in one sitting.


If the original project specs require specific criteria for sources (e.g. publication years, peer-reviewed journals, primary sources, etc.), then the client is entitled to a free revision if the sources used by the writer don't meet those criteria. However, anytime the specs don't specify or limit what sources may be used, there are no free revisions based on specs provided only after the fact. If the specs say nothing about the sources (or if the client fails to share any applicable specs in the original order), our only obligation is to use academically-appropriate sources. A revision necessitated by any mistake or omission in the original order is always charged.

For some of the reasons mentioned above, the writing on an essay company's website usually represents the highest quality of writing that the company's writers can produce. So, if their web copy is poorly written, you can be sure that the essays they provide are going to be even worse. That doesn't necessarily mean that a company with a well-written website will provide good work, because they could have outsourced the web copy or had it written by their best writer from their stable of 100+ other horrible writers. The point is that if they can't even write their own web copy properly, there's very little chance that they're going to be able to provide high-quality academic projects.

In my experience, the vast majority of college graduates can't write very well at all. Except for (some) people who pursued degrees that emphasized writing, most college students don't write much better on the day they graduate than they did on the day they first showed up to college. That's mainly because college students rarely approach writing assignments as potential learning opportunities. They dread them and blow them off as long as possible, before amassing a ton of (largely unnecessary) research material. Then, they pull an all-nighter to cobble together something with a lot of content plagiarized in several different ways and heavy reliance on (unnecessary) block quotes, just struggling to fill the minimum number of required pages by any means possible. They do that maybe a dozen times in 4 years of college. That's not exactly a training program that makes someone a good writer.

Just as a typical example of how well typical college graduates write, about a month ago, a friend referred a friend to me because the latter had expressed an interest in doing this for a living; so I asked him whether he had any writing samples. He didn't have anything suitable for a sample, so I sent him the specs of the last very simple short undergraduate project that I'd just completed in two hours to see what he could do with that in 3 days. What he sent me was just atrocious in half a dozen different ways. Not only is he a college graduate with a BA in Journalism, but he teaches middle school social studies and history for a living. Likewise, when I worked for the U.S. government as a Writer/Editor, I was assigned to provide periodic writing evaluation and training sessions for about 50 agency employees, all of whom had college degrees, some of whom had master's degrees, and about a quarter of whom were executive level with master's and/or doctorate degrees. I could count on the fingers of one hand how many of them I'd trust to produce a decent 5-page undergraduate academic essay in 48 hours.

I could not possibly disagree with this more strongly. The one thing that ESL writers often tend to do as well as many ENL writers is cite their sources, and for a very simple reason: one doesn't need to be able to write well just to follow the rules of citation styles by rote; so they put much of their effort into that relatively trivial element of academic essays. Some of my clients who found me only after already having been ripped off by my cheap competitors have shown me the atrociously-bad essays they received from them, many of which were perfectly "referenced" and "cited" in APA or MLA or Chicago style, despite being composed of absolutely nothing of substantive value and/or completely incoherent gibberish written in obvious ESL-English. It takes zero writing talent or intellectual ability to follow citation-style guidelines about how to list the names of authors and whether (or where) to use italics and where to insert the publication dates of sources in a reference listing. All of that can be learned (or followed) by just about anybody who can type out words on a keyboard.

I've explained many times that a good, highly-experienced writer doesn't necessarily need a master's degree or a doctorate (or a degree of any kind in any specific area) to produce a high-quality thesis or dissertation. On the other hand, I would disagree, and quite vehemently, that most college graduates are "more than capable of working as an academic writer" (unless you mean fully capable of working as a very bad academic writer). Almost every adult I know is a college graduate, but almost none of them can write well enough to do this for a living; and I'm only referring to how well they write, let alone how well they can research a topic. In my opinion, as someone who has done this for a living for roughly 20 years, most college graduates are definitely not capable of writing even one excellent 10-page academic essay in a week, let alone one roughly every day, day after day.

A good, highly-experienced ENL writer can always write at a lower level than his natural level on request and can introduce some minor mistakes of grammar and idiomatic expression to mimic the types of mistakes that ESL writers and students often make. Very few ESL writers can write in grammatically and idiomatically-correct English. If they could, there would be no reason for ENL students to prefer ENL writers. I can identify ESL writing very easily in almost every sentence written by ESL writers, even in work that isn't bad in other respects, and so can all ENL professors.