Such a generic handle could easily create username problems for you. As you can see, it is very easy to create variations of your username and, in the process, lead to confusing online identities. You should have added some numbers or special characters to your otherwise flat sounding username to help make you stand out from the rest. I am not saying that your username is bad, I am just saying that your username consideration process did not consider all the negative factors and easy to remember, but easily confused username could eventually bring to you and your business.

There are no free services coming from these "plagiarism checker" sites. Regardless of what they say about storing or not storing your data, nobody can really verify if they stored the data or not, if they used the data or not. Always remember, you pay a price for "free checker" sites. These always come at the price of storing your paper on their server. When they will use it, nobody knows. All that we know is, they will use your paper, eventually.

If the paper provided to any client could not even pass for a model paper, then I can safely say the client has been scammed and needs to file a charge back claim. There is no sense in editing a paper yourself, when the implication was that the paper was a "model" which students can use for any purpose you see fit, and that includes passing it off as your original work if you so wish. An unusable paper should be refunded, no questions asked. As for the client, if you contracted the service through one email address then receive an email from a different email address next, that should be the only red flag you need to cancel your order.

I wonder if the OP double checked the phone number. International phone numbers are available via VoIP so the LEEDS number could have actually originated from anywhere in the world. It is important to never make assumptions in this case. A phone number in the UK tends to lend validity to the company address claims. However, depending upon how the English conversation went with the client care person, I would have been able to judge if they were just paying for a rented UK based landline number or, if they were actually in the UK.

Based on the length of time provided to complete the paper, the client would have been within his rights to ask for a draft copy of the paper. A review of the draft would have shown the plagiarism early on, resulting in an earlier resolution to the problem. The problem is, students tend to be complacent once they have hired a writing service. If you have never used the service or the writer before, you should not rest on your laurels. You should be vigilant and suspicious unless the writer and company have proven to be reliable and original. I am blaming the student for this one. He should have taken more responsibility for the supervised completion of his paper prior to the deadline.

All I know is this, a company that uses 2 URL's for its singular business cannot be trusted. It is trying to avoid something. Maybe the first site is so fraudulent, it barely has any clients. So they make a second site / hold a different url, hoping that the students will not notice that it is the same wolf. Unfortunately, the owners of the site were dumb enough to choose 2 similar sounding names. Why? Maybe they are idiots who cannot remember a simple url. Whatever their purpose, it is best to never deal with 2 faced academic writing companies.

Any academic writing company that claims to be unique and error free is definitely selling a lie right from the start. Unique? I doubt it. Error free? Clients will always find an error no matter how perfect a paper seems to be. These hyperbolic claims are what proves that the company cannot be trusted. Like they say in real life, anybody who claims to never tell a lie is a liar. Anybody who claims to be perfect, is imperfect in every way.

3 years later and this company is finally out of business. The domain name is actually up for sale now. So that means the company did not just change owners. It actually shut down. It is closed for good. It appears to have had some hosting problems over the past few years. Which probably affected their writers abilities to complete work tasks. I bet they shut down due to refund complaints most of all.

I believe otherwise. The forum exists for a purpose. I believe that purpose is to help steer students away from potentially fraudulent websites and writers. So we would be remiss in our duty to inform the students if we do not at least allow them to learn about the pleasant writing service experiences that other students may have had. It is not a direct endorsement of a website, it is a mere explanation of why a particular company provides a pleasant experience. Nothing wrong with that. If the student opts to go with such a company, then that is still his decision and nobody here ever made a recommendation to go with one site in particular.

I cannot help but wonder, with all of the advertising in this forum for direct hire writers, do the writers really follow the "no recommendations" allowed policy? Or do you just contact the students privately so as not to violate the no recommendation rule? Having been told that this was mere code before, I am really looking for clarity on this matter. I mean, do the writers really have the personal willpower not to contact the students screaming, "Contact me now!" ? Or is contacting the client privately an open secret here that the admin chooses to turn a blind eye to?

Students that have specific writing requirements may find it difficult to hire a writer be it on an academic writing company or freelance writer basis. Writers have their limitations. These limitations often dictate the type of papers they can work on be it through a company or through direct hire. It is important that clients understand that these limitations are not scams. These limitations mean that the paper is so highly specialized, the company and the writer honestly do not believe it can be completed by someone of their writing level. Since the topic was never mentioned in the OP, we can all just assume that it was some sort of scientific, high brow, research and analysis intense paper. Specialized writers would be called for in this case and where there are none available, the client is simply out of luck.

Well, how did everything end? Did the OP actually hire some writing talents from ES? I do not think so. The writers here are mostly freelancers who already did their time working for writing companies. Now they want to work for themselves and they will definitely warn their network members to not to fall for these sort of scams. There was no clear indication of writer requirements so they were obviously looking for writers to scam. I am just glad that nobody fell for his false advertising.

Every student will have a different experience with any writing company. The experience is really requirement specific so just because one person had a horrible experience, we cannot say it will be the same for everyone else using the same service. Let's bear in mind that in a chat or forum posting, the writer has control of information and has the ability to distort information if he so chooses to. Whether or not he posts the whole truth, damage has been done to the image of a solid academic writing company. I am disappointed that this poster did not inform us of how things turned out. Nobody should be allowed to malign a company without evidence. The strength of his claims could have only been proven by one thing, his complaint winning in the BBB. Without it, he is nothing more than a disgruntled student whose words should be taken as what they are lies meant to harm a company that meant him no harm.

This thread is already dead. I know. However, the current work climate means that there are going to be writers out of a job and looking for work with other companies. This thread, is a perfect example of a con company. These are the promises made, promises broken to the writers. If any formerly academic company connected writers here read anything similar to that above, then you know for sure you are being conned. Do not fall for the sweet words of these con artists. You will be the ones to suffer in the end.

I was in college, had a roommate who was horrible at writing anything not related to his actual major (physics). He saw I was acing my research papers within my own major, he asked me for help, I asked him how much it was worth to him, and the rest, is history. I never worked in a regular company. Even as a college student, I worked by filling the writing needs of my classmates. It was how I paid off my student loan and, it is why I am able to live the life I lead today. For me, it was just something that naturally happened. I never even thought of working at a regular job after graduation because I had lower class students waiting for me to complete their papers for them. Everything just grew from there. You might say the occupation chose me, not the other way around. Hahaha !

So true. This is exactly how I got my start in the business. I had been working myself way too hard, almost a hundred papers in the pipeline, and I was the only one doing the work. I knew I was overloading myself but somehow I managed to get through the pending work just the same. Eventually, I was becoming way too popular with the students, the orders kept coming in, I could not say no, and eventually had to admit it. I had to get help. I started out just hiring some college buddies of mine to help out using a profit sharing deal. Things kept looking up. Eventually, I found myself hiring writers for my staff already. So yes, receiving the paper from the main writer's account does not prove that the writer wrote the paper. It just proves the paper was sent from that account which the students perceives to be reliable and a representation of the writer's honest work.

I had coffee with a friend who posts here regularly. He was the one that hooked me up with this forum as a way to de-stress and just clear my head at the end of a hectic work day. Anyway, he told me that it is funny how the writers here keep on saying that they cannot make recommendations when what they really mean is "I'll contact you in private". I asked him if "We don't endorse..." is some sort of code on this forum and he responded, "It would seem that way." Hahaa! How true is that?

I am just wondering why the student assumed that the paper provided was a draft and not the final copy. It is possible that he asked for a draft beforehand, and received that from the company writer instead. I do not see any reference to having asked for the final copy of the paper, there was jump to a demand for a refund instead. So there are missing parts of this story that make me believe that the student may have jumped to conclusions. I have students tell my writers beforehand if they need a draft copy and by when they need it so that their draft requests can be accommodated. The draft is also uploaded as a separate file, clearly marked as a draft on the server to avoid confusion. My guess is, there was confusion all around. I mean, the student did not even realize he was screaming by keeping his CAPS locked, so what else could he have misunderstood about his order?

Whoever wrote the original post obviously wrote it during the time when the industry was not struggling to remain relevant in a pandemic scenario. The academic industry has changed. Adjustments to homework, exams, and research have also been enacted to help students adjust to the new learn from home or mix learning setting. While the education industry tries to sort itself out, the academic writing companies and writers are left on the sidelines. We have to wait for the normalization of the academic setting before we can even begin to create a new work system / adjusted future for our own industry. It is difficult to predict what the future now holds for both the company and freelance writers now and in the immediate future. Everything is still up in the air and this semester, will be our semester of adjustment, just like the other students. All future plans for company and writer growth are on hold until further notice. Right now, there is no theory and no predictable future for the academic outsourcing industry.

I find it very hard to believe that all the writers at this forum that work for a company always ended up with the short end of the stick. Their experiences are always lousy, there are no benefits to be had, there is simply nothing, about their experience that should have made them stay in the academic writing business. Yet they did. I think the OP was barking up the wrong tree here. Rather than writing about the experiences in the industry, he should be interviewing writers regarding why they stay in such a bad occupation. I mean, why keep suffering for money when you are unhappy with what you earn and the way you are treated by your company? That, is the real story.

The problem is that both the legitimate and questionable writing companies currently have a problem keeping their writer seats filled. The pandemic has prevented their more reliable and better skilled writers, regardless of location, from going online to work for one reason or another. So these companies have been forced to practically hire writers off the street. While the tests still exist, these are but a formality these days as the companies struggle to recruit writers these days. The school lockdown gave the writers a chance to try their writing skills in other fields, that ended up paying better. So they flew the coop, so to speak. So these days, some writing companies will hire anybody willing to or showing an interest to work for them.

That is definitely funny. However, I would like to congratulate you on being an honest teacher or professor. I mean, I personally know several professors who do student academic writing on the side. Hey, nobody said being a teacher paid well. Getting paid for the essays of other students have actually made them better teachers. Yes, there are a few times when they catch the students passing off work that the teacher wrote, and, they give them the perfect grade just because they are proud of the work that they did. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, some of them are even tempted to clue in the students about how they know the paper was written by someone else. They don't do it though. They don't want to embarrass the students and also, run the risk of being fired for the gray area job that they do on the side.

Teachers will know you cheated if you have never bothered to even try in class. Even a half hearted attempt at class participation could help throw a teacher off your scent. Don't get me wrong though, the teacher will never start suspecting the students at the very start of the class. It all depends how well you created your image as a student at the start of the semester. A hard working student who slowly progresses from bad to better throughout the semester will call less attention than the student who went from bad to perfect without a gradual improvement trend.

It could. However, nobody said that the possibility that it could cause issues for you should prevent you from using the essay. What you can do, is use the essay as the basis or foundation for the content of your new essay. Like @Smiley73 said, you can use about 30% of the paper. Just make sure to integrate the information into your new paper. Take the old information, present it in the paper then update the information to reflect the improved presentation. As an origin source, using the old information should not pose any problems. You just need to know how to present it to make it relevant and look different from the original presentation.

I've been using Live Transcribe lately and it has been a wonderful experience. The program itself takes wonderful dictation when required and accurately takes notes like a secretary in a group meeting setting. It is a necessary weapon in today's work from home arsenal. It can really take a badgering when it comes to group discussions. The program itself is not complex and pretty much works as described, just hit the record button and you are done. These programs are also making it easier for students to take notes in class. Cursive? Print writing? What's that? Writing is now a part of the history of man, only to be seen in museums. Voice dictation is the way of the future.

My belief is that if a company has requested to be placed in the DND list, then they have something to hide. A reliable and reputable company will not request to be placed on the DND. Rather, they will work hard to disprove the bashers in their midst. They will work towards improving their company image. They will not hide behind the guise of DND simply because that is the easiest way to get people to stop talking about a proven scam company. You cannot trust any of these DND listed companies.

Any student who needs a specialized paper will do best to never hire a writing service. Hire a freelancer instead who specializes in that field. For example, a fresh nursing graduate who is still on vacation after graduation will not say no to writing a model paper for a student. It will be beneficial to them, helping them remember their lessons and, will be beneficial to the student, who will have the most recent information and insights available for the paper courtesy of the nursing graduate. It isn't difficult to find such helpful graduates, you may even find some right here at this forum. You just need to know where to look.

Academic writing companies that advertise budget rates are no better than a $1 home available in Italy. You get what you pay for. Of course it will be crummy work. You can't expect quality when you are paying merely for quantity of words. The owners of the company don't care if their writers deliver crap. As long as your payment clears. Forget refunds. They are real scammers who run when they get what they want. Next time, don't be a cheapskate. Pay for quality, hire an independent writer or, pay more for the writing service. How else do you expect to get what you paid for?

You write decently for a 3rd world writer. You could be a regular writer for ESL students with this level of writing skills. However, if you were to work for me, I would still need you to take some tests to better assess your language and research skills. Sometimes, writers are good when dealing with off the cuff writing assignments, but then fall apart when they are given specific instructions, materials to read and use, and when the student makes specific writing demands. You should apply at several companies, take their assessment tests, and then wait to see which one follows up with a phone interview. If you get to the phone interview part, then that will just be a formality. You can consider yourself hired from that point on.

The minute I read the word Pakistan in the title of this thread, I knew it was going to be trouble. Any company coming out of Pakistan cannot be trusted. It is automatically a scam. Why would you hire a third word, hence, third rate writer to complete your paper in the first place? The service is cheap? Guess what, cheap means low grades. Never think that you can get a high grade when you paid for an economy paper. That isn't how this works.

What is the future of the academic writing industry? Everything that has previously been said may have held truth at the time. However, Covid - 19 and the sudden digitization of the classroom has changed the game. Classes are now more relaxed, being combined with physical classroom and remote learning has given the students a new sense of freedom and less stress when it comes to homework. Do they still need academic writers? Yes. How often will they need one? That is a guessing game. It will all depend upon how serious the change to the learning and assignment atmosphere will end up being. Academic writing will always have a place in the learning industry. How vast that influence will be in the future is what we cannot tell. The academic shakeup hasn't stopped yet. So let's just hold on and see what the end result will be. As writers and owners of academic writing companies, we should simply prepare for the changes in the business so that we can continue to survive in the new world.

Just like all companies. There is a basic wage or a starting salary. Just like all other employees, you have to work your way up from there. Prove yourself through repeat clients, delivering papers on time, avoiding revisions, and being cooperative. You will find yourself climbing the ranks soon enough. There is nothing surprising about the 2 different pay scales. It is common practice in any business. There is nothing evil about it. It is simply the company asking the writers to do their jobs well. Prove your monetary value to the writer and you will get somewhere.

Why didn't anybody directly respond to the question? Does the company pay or not? The answer? They pay, if you are patient enough. I dug into the background of the company just for the heck of it, seeing that nobody answered the question and all. What I found out is that it is the typical scam company that pays on a delayed basis, fines their writers to withhold payment even when fining is not required, and yes, they will hire anybody willing to fall for their trap. Do not rely too much on their promised rates. That is the bait. If you choose to fall for it, then suffer the consequences.

If he dropped the phrase "Example Academic Paper" and simply went with Editor / Editorial Assistant, he would probably have gotten a better response to the job description in his resume. Word play is important when creating your resume. The better it sounds on paper, the better your chance to land an interview. What matters is how he puts on the verbal dance during the actual interview so that he doesn't get caught as an academic writer. While most companies won't care, there are some idiots out there whose kids are school age who could take it against him.

It is important that students learn to investigate and consider all options before picking a service. Don't base your choice on the price factor alone. Ask for referrals. Look at the DND list at this forum, speak to the client care agents. If the offer is low and the company refuses to let you have access to writer profiles, specifically, if they do not allow you to choose your own writer based on a bidding format, then you should not consider the service. You need access to the writer applicant files, or what the company chooses to release of it, so that you can get the writer that best fits your needs.

Academic writing companies now pretend to have administration forums where the writers can air their grievances and the admin can pretend to read what was said and "assure" the writers that something will be done about it. Others, have created an HR email account to help them pretend that they actually care about what the writers have to say. Normally, those accounts remain unchecked and the posts at the forum, are locked as soon as a 5 post conversation gets started. What is the writer's recourse? If you feel really ignored and belittled, then stop working for the company. Only by affecting their writers pool can you really hit them where it hurts.

Starting your own writing business isn't easy. Starting a writing service in the middle of a pandemic, even harder. I know, the OP made this post eons ago, but I recognized the fact that this discussion is highly relevant at the moment. As the writing companies start to falter because of the new schooling atmosphere, writers will be looking to branch out on their own. Let me say this, this is not the business climate to be starting a new company in. If you are currently attached to a writing company, stay put until everything blows over. Do not risk what little finances you have on a risky venture. It is better to earn a salary than it is to try and earn on your own at the moment.

What you should have done was do a little extra leg work. You already had 75% of the work done with the old paper. All you had to do was rephrase everything, then add new, updated information to help change the content totally. Had you done a little extra research, you would have changed the paper in totality and avoided any plagiarism worries. The reason that you are worried is because you were too lazy to do what you knew would update the paper. Nobody ever said that you can't rework an old paper for updated use. You just need to be sure that you totally update the information and presentation from the original.

A 35 percent is already what my writers receive so I do not understand why anybody would think that the percentage is something special. Based on my network of writers and companies, this is the gold standard of paying writers if you want to keep the good ones that you have. Okay, let me clarify, my best writers get 50 %, second best, 35 %, and ESL writers, 25% (provided they do not incur any penalties on the job). At my company, writers who continuously provide the best work quality and being in repeat clients get the most out of working for me. It is only fair since they share the burden of keeping the client happy.

Academia Research does not withhold the salary of their higher ranking writers. It is lower rung to bottom rung writers who suffer that fate. They are well known in the industry for being unable to pay their junior writers on time. They do not mind paying the senior writers in full whenever they can because those are the writers who bring in the big money. The juniors, they will have to wait their turn. They suffer the most in penalties, the most in negative ratings, and the most in delayed payment releases.