I know of several essay writing companies, whom I am not in any sort of business relationship with, that specify such a disclaimer in their TOS. It's just something that they included to cover their behinds in case the student gets into trouble (gets caught using a paid for paper) and decides to get back at them. Believe me, the students don't take that disclaimer seriously and they always use the highly expensive paper that they paid for. They always submit it for a grade. All the companies and independent writers can do is offer a caveat, knowing very well the student will either not have read that far into the TOS, or will not read the TOS at all. Since you paid for the paper, you should be able to use it. The only thing you have to do to get around the warning is change some parts of the paper. Either rewrite some paragraphs, or paraphrase certain points to erase the traces of a paid paper.

Aside from using the "plagiarism" detected ruse on the writers who normally serve up the best quality work and bring in repeated clients to the company, these companies also use the same reasoning to get rid of the writers whose rates are constantly increasing due to "promotions" in the company. These companies have nothing else but plagiarism to fall back on because that is the excuse that they can easily defend, using their "original plagiarism software" which they claim is better than any plagiarism website out there.

It is important for high quality academic writers to understand that this is something that was cooked up to keep them from being paid and, after being accused unfairly of this action once, they must stop writing for that company, because things will only go downhill from there. I know, I have had to save a few of my friends, by employing them myself when they come to me with this complaint. It is designed to keep money from leaving the company. It is not meant to benefit the students / clients in any way.

I have not really experienced a writing slump in the business. Mostly because I have managed to spin off my business from purely academic writing to other venues that require proficient writers just the same. It is important for academic writers to realize that the work that they do is seasonal and as such, they need to make sure that they have other work types lined up when the sales are down. Positive prospects for the down time rely heavily on the network that the writer has created outside of the academic writing business. Having friends who work in the advertising field can come a long way in helping an academic writer find jobs to do when the students are off on vacation. My company has managed to diversify thanks to my other business contacts and I continue to find creative ways of keeping my writers employed because of it.

When an ESL student comes in to my company for a free consultation regarding their writing style for an American or UK based university, I always tell them the same thing. Start with an ESL writer to create the aura of being a bright, but language challenged student. Working with an ESL writer helps the student establish that he is not that good a writer, but that the student has the capacity to improve over time and within several writing projects. This is to help them develop a smooth grading system with the professor as well, who doesn't realize that the student is having the paper written by someone else. As the semester progresses, I ask the student if he would already be comfortable using a more fluent writer, one of intermediate English vocabulary level to establish that the student has improved both his writing style and vocabulary. Since I do this towards the third part of the semester, the student is usually more appreciative of the suggestion and agrees to the improved writer skills format. They are tickled pink when they see their grades improve and the professor commends the improvement in their "written" English presentation, even though their oral English is still in need for more improvement. So no, I don't think it is advisable for ESL students to hire and stick to only ESL writers. It isn't going to serve their grades much good in the long run.

If anybody wishes to work as an ESL writer in this field, I have only one piece of advice for you; look at your English grades from elementary school up to college. If you are getting only average/ passing/ barely passing/ failing grades throughout your academic history, then don't bother trying to become an academic writer. You are not going to make it. Students will constantly ask you to revise the work, the company will constantly fine you (if such a policy exists with the company), and you will be in constant danger of not earning anything at the end of the month because penalties ate up your earnings. Just because you can read in English doesn't mean you can write in English. English academic writing requirements are too stringent in both the US and the UK, which is why, if you are not taught to write in English using one of the two English academic writing styles, you will suffer as an ESL writer. What passes for English writing in your native country will more than likely not pass as even acceptable in a real English academic research setting.

The OP did not do enough homework before hiring the company. That is why he got scammed. I guess this was a case of a first - time user, which is why he was unaware of the pitfalls of leaving your complete information with an unknown company / writer. In practice, a writer should never ask for the full payment upfront. The payment can be had in installments, depending upon the agreed upon payment arrangement with the client. Normally, I ask for 30% upfront and I deliver only the equivalent work of that payment, making allowances for revisions and extended deadline requirements. For every percentage of work that satisfies the client, I request for at least another 25-30% payment, until the paper is fully finished, in which case I demand the rest of the payment before surrendering the final part of the paper to the client. It is a system that continues to work well for me, using it to pay my writers instead. I would not advise any user to trust a writer who demands the full payment upfront. There is always a question as to the quality of work and reliability of the writer that cannot be assured by a full payment before any work is even submitted to the user.

I wonder how the payment system for this site worked out for the OP. I recall that there was a time when these pay per response assignments websites were all the rage and students thought they were getting the best deal possible, without having to pay a premium price to get their assignments done. Lots of good it did the students to get responses that required additional payments to receive responses to follow-up questions. It also turned out that the sites were not able to pay the "educators" for some reason. I had a friend who got burned by this system. He never did get paid for the almost 100 correct responses and follow-up responses that he delivered to the student users. He eventually gave up and went back to academic writing full-time. The popularity of such sites, from what I can tell, seems to have fizzled out as well.

Well, this is definitely a hard lesson learned. I am sad that you did not discover our very helpful forum before you decided to deal with a specific essay writing company. Any company that comes out India is more than likely to be a fraudulent one. Even if they did deliver the paper, you would have found that the paper was not worth the money you paid for it, much less worth using. That said, how successful were you with the refund request? Majority of those companies decline to refund the money once a request is made or a dispute is started. I hope that will not be the case with you. While I appreciate you not advocating that users boycott the company, I know that you are saying that tongue-in-cheek. Thank you for sharing your cautionary tale with us though. I am sure it will come in handy for some student who might have come across the company site and is currently in the process of hiring the company services.

I consider my ESL writers to be the second stringers in my company. They have the ability to write in English. They can write fluently in English. They even know the proper English grammar rules to apply in their writing. The problem that I have, is that they are prone to transliterating when left unsupervised, which leads to low quality essay submissions to the client. They are my writers who are held back from progressing in my company because of their writing weaknesses. While I give them every opportunity to advance to the rank of an almost EFL writer, very few of them prove to be able to do so.

That is why I always leave the option to hire an EFL or ESL writer to the client. They, of all people, should know which type of writer would best reflect their own English academic writing ability. I would never lump my ESL and EFL writers into one group. My EFL writers would be hugely disappointed in me if I did that so I never consider the ESL writers comparable to them in terms of writing skills.

It isn't that the company is hiding their corporate address from the clients. It's just that since the business is internet based, there is no need for them to disclose too much information online. Just as there is such a thing as identity theft among individuals, there is also a possibility of corporate identity theft if one places too much business details online. The location of a company being one of the targets of these identity thieves. One cannot blame a company for wishing to protect their identity online right?

It isn't right to assume that a company that does not disclose its location or masks its location is automatically engaged in shady dealings. Owing to how the internet tends to PING the IP address of a site all over the world to confuse IP blockers, one should not consider a hidden address as "Shady" or "criminal" at once. There are several considerations that a company owner has to make when establishing an online presence and that should be taken into account before judgements are made about their location and reasons for its masking.

When I was still actively writing... Okay... I still do a little writing on the side for special clients, I would charge a deposit upfront. The minute the client agrees to hire me for the job, that means the client pays me 50% upfront with the final payment due before the final version of the paper is submitted.

For students who come in through my company though, I do not set a price for them to pay until I have an assigned writer for their project. The reason I do not automatically assign a CPP is because I will be basing the CPP on the seniority of the writer on my staff. The newer the writer, the more affordable the CPP.

Once a writer is assigned, I request for the full payment of the project upfront. No deposit in this instance because the writer will be in direct communication with the client for the development of the project and the writer will be submitting the completed work to the client on the deadline. Therefore, I don't accept installment payments.

The advantage of receiving the full payment upfront is that I am able to spend on the company maintenance needs and set aside the writer's salary as he completes his projects. I don't have to worry about chasing down the client to complete the payment.

Actually, it is possible to register a writing business and get a business permit, provided academic writing is not your only form of business and you are not mentioning that directly in your application forms for the permits. Registered academic teaching centers such as tutorial places could offer indirect writing services. These are considered legitimate companies that hire legitimate writers, who are normally stateside or UK based, to accomplish these "special services". The misconception about legitimate writing services and writers stem from the proliferation of 3rd world writing companies and European based questionable academic outsourcing entities. It is not proper to refer to all writing services as illegitimate.

There are more legitimate writing services out there than one would be inclined to believe. It all depends upon how the business is structured and the actual services (without special order services offered such as academic writing) offered by the company. These are legally registered business entities who take pride in the work that their company does.

The forum is actually here to help students realize when they are dealing with a questionable company or writer by exposing their negative business practices. However, that is not to say that one cannot find a reputable service through this forum. The people behind the scenes have done the homework for the students and verified essay writing companies and writers who can be relied upon to turn in exactly what the client needs without requiring any revisions. While going through the threads can help a student find a good service, using the banner link above does the job of finding the perfect writing company or writer for a client in a faster and more reliable manner. Most of the writers who participate at this forum are already located in the aforementioned banner links so all the student has to do is contact a company or a writer to get started with the paper cost negotiations.

I find it hard to believe that the UK government thinks that they can actually crackdown and get rid of all the essay mills. The mere fact that the companies exist only online means that they can disappear tonight and reappear the next day with a new name, a new website, but the same writers. The only thing that this type of action can accomplish is giving the site owners time to hide their tracks and learn how to work the system on a different scale. So the next time around, it will be harder for the government agencies to trace their existence. YouTube can take down their ads but there are still other methods that will allow the companies to advertise their business, in a more veiled way. They've been trying for decades to shut down the essay mills with no success so I doubt they will succeed this time around.

These so-called homework assistance websites are the newest scam to hit the freelance writing business. It's picking up in popularity because the service cons the writers into thinking that for as long as they respond correctly to a question, the payment will come in. On the contrary, the student has the option to pick the best response out of all of the answers posted for any given question and then decide which response they want to accept as the correct response or, as in the case of a mathematical problem, the correct mathematical equation solution. The writers then end up battling each other regarding who provides the most complete response to the student. All for pennies or a dollar per accepted response. This is a waste of a freelance writer's time because it takes too long to gain anything monetarily from the work system.

I think that the OP was aiming for the sky when he should have been aiming for the ground instead. He had the mistaken notion that being highly educated would be equivalent to immediately getting hired in an executive position in any workplace.

The reason he was not getting hired was because he was lacking in work experience. No amount of theoretical knowledge will get a person without any proper work experience hired at a high level position. He would probably have encountered the same problem had he gone into the academic writing business. He would aim for the dissertation topics and other high priced paper orders, all without having any evidence of academic writing expertise.

I also do not believe that he had a paper ready for journal publication. Besides, these days, there are more journals that ask the writer to pay the publication to publish the work rather than the other way around. It seems to me that he did not make it as an academic writer even with all of the advice that was given to him at this forum. While he might be qualified to be an academic writer, I don't believe he would have been willing to start from the bottom to make it to the top of the earning roster. When the ego gets ahead of a writer, problems can definitely arise in terms of finding employment both with a company or as a freelancer.

Come to think of it, I may have had a knee-jerk reaction in this instance. Upon repeated reading, I came to see that the OP never mentioned if the reason he was not paid was because he did a bad job at it and he was fined till nothing was left of the total order cost, if the client found his work to be unusable so he demanded a full refund, or, as implied in the post, the company simply decided not to pay the writer. The reasons behind which, he left unclear in his post. Therefore, I agree with @FreelanceWriter, posting to the anti-plagiarism sites may be do the client, who may not know about the non-payment issue with the writer, more damage than good.

I stand by my comment only if it can be proven that the client was unfair in his treatment of the writer and the writer can prove he did a good job on the paper. Otherwise, It is definitely not in the student's best interest to have his paper published publicly for plagiarism notation.

Being personal friends with the people that run that company, I would very much like to hear an update about this case. I have never come across a case of an ESL writer working for CustomPapers and I have never known any of their writers to do such a sloppy job. The powers that be at that company have never stood for anything less than stellar academic work from their writers. Anybody proven to be as bad as the writer in this case would not last long at the company. Are you sure it was CustomPapers you were dealing with? The scenario you described is not something that normally occurs within their ranks. I am absolutely sure that if you contacted the company, they would resolve your complaint immediately.

CustomPapers is a highly reliable company that hires only ENL writers who take absolute pride in the work that they do. I can't believe that such a thing could happen with any student's paper order at the company. Please let us know how the situation was resolved, as I am sure the company will be willing to settle with you. You have to be fair to the company you are mentioning and give them a chance to clean their name.

You do know that you took an academic oath right?

As far as I am concerned, helping a student get an essay or research paper done so he can work on other, more important aspects of his education is one thing, helping a student to knowingly cheat is another. I draw the line at taking the test for a student and I never allow any of my writers to do that either. Your parents are paying for your education and you can pay to get academic help without breaking the rules, just bending them.

Paying someone to take a test for you, regardless of your reason, is breaking the rules.

I sincerely doubt that you will find any writer at this forum who will be willing to help you do that. Not for any cost. Take the test yourself and swallow the bitter pill of a failing grade or enjoy the sweet nectar of success with a passing grade.

This is one thing an honest writer will not help you to accomplish. Another reminder, if you get caught paying someone to take the test for you and you get caught, that is an automatic expulsion on your part.

YouTube may need to think about banning the tutorial websites as well. They often mask their "writing services" within the video "lecture" or animated "movie" about how to write in English properly. It appears that Google is slow and is always playing the catch-up game, but they eventually get there. It is very easy to hire out-of-work struggling actors to play the part. They do it so realistically that you may think you are just watching a video tutorial meant to help you out. Then you get to the end and they hit you with "Hit the bell button to Subscribe and click the link in the description box for more information". Then you find out that the link in the description box leads to a malware filled website that Malwarebytes blocks of throws up a warning page for. That's why I don't click on any YT links when I come across a "tutorial" video. It almost always amounts to no good.

@FreelanceWriter, it's just a heightened way of having a web presence. It's an anchor that can directly lead the client to your website for more information. The idea is to have a snippet of a writing sample, either through a tweet or a blurb about your services that could interest the student in learning more about your services. The social media presence is always anchored to a verifiable website. That's how the system works. It is similar to the way ES works. You blog / Vlog, tweet, or post a status update and then add a link to your website. Any interested student will be automatically directed to your website. That often takes care of the question regarding the status and abilities of a writer found on social media. That is the only reason I am also on social media at the moment. It all boils down to business advertising in the new century. Independent private writers need to keep up with the times to remain relevant and searchable by potential clients.

There are available statistics that show students doing more and more searches for services that they need through social media search boxes as opposed to Google, Bing, and other search engines. That is because the internet browsing dynamic is changing and leaning more towards people, and by extension, potential clients, spending more time on social media as opposed to doing searches online. That is why I have a social media presence that I pay for.

I don't want competitor ads on my social pages, but I do not mind appearing on my competitor's site. By paying for my social space, Twitter and FB also boost my ad presence on relevant pages (including non-paying competitor pages / profiles) and also well positions my links on the pages that my ads are directed towards. I think you would benefit from that sort of service as well. You could schedule the ads for the hot seasons or leading up to it to increase your web presence, aside from participating at this forum. You don't have to pay for ads year round if you don't want to (I prefer to). You can schedule the ads for any time that you think you need it to help boost your web presence. You can also make a little on the side by accepting relevant advertising on your FB and Twitter pages if you wish to.

I hate it when people lump together the unprofessional writing companies with the ones that are professionally run. The OP made this mistake in his posting and I feel that, no matter how old this post is, I want to be able to give my opinion on what he said. First of all, not all essay writers are capable of immediately starting their own freelance business. When given the opportunity to work with a legitimate writing company, the writer has the opportunity to create his personal client base, a group of clients that the writer can take with him once he leaves the employ of the essay writing company.

Just because he had some bad luck with the company that he joined does not mean that all the freelance writers will or would have or have had the same experience as he did. In fact, some writers will attest to having an excellent working relationship (my writers included) with their employer. Some companies treat their writers like family members and that is why they tend to have a good long-term working relationship with the company.

I think that the OP did not have the freelance writer's mindset in the first place. Which is why he ended up with such a horrible work experience as an academic writer. If he knew what he was doing, how to deal with his clients, and how to negotiate with the writing company, I doubt he would have had too many problems work-wise, even with a questionable writing company.

Of course proper grammar an punctuation matters regardless of whether the client submits the essay for a grade or not. He paid for a well-written paper that follows academic guidelines, he should receive nothing less. If the writer cannot provide properly punctuated essays and grammatically correct papers to the client, then he has no business being in the academic writing business. There is no exception to this rule. Either write the essay properly or do not work as a writer. The discussion as to the student not submitting the essay for a grade is out of this conversation. It should not even be considered an issue. The paper must be submission ready if the client does decide to submit it for a grade, which happens 99.99 % of the time. Therefore, grammar and punctuation perfection is not optional, it is a must for any decent writer who wants to last long in this business.

While Turnitin and Grammarly will do the job, the surefire way to keep the paper constantly in the crosshairs of the search engines is to start a blogsite, publish the paper there, and keep it there. Wordpress offers effectively searched free blogs so that site might be able to help the OP accomplish what he wants to do. This could also work for future problems based on a similar situations. Just make sure to include the creation date for the essay so that the date stamp of the website will not override the actual writing, not publication date, of the essay.

I am wondering though as to why the OP was not paid for the paper. Was there an unsatisfied client or a client scamming the company to get a free essay? Or was his work that bad that the client could not use the paper so the company refused to pay the writer? Whatever the reason, I hope that the OP was able to amicably resolve the issue.

I am not sure what the OP could not understand about the term being used by the writers. When they say they work for certain or a series of websites, that means the writer is employed or has work agreements with those companies. They applied either through the actual website, following a Work for Us link or, through an affiliate site that led him to work for the mother company. Work is work. They were looking for work, found an opening they felt they qualified for, applied for the job, and got hired. Nothing mysterious or hard to understand about that. Admittedly, there is no formal contract existing in this work scenario so maybe, there is a mistake in term usage? I think it would be better if writers said they were "affiliated with", rather than "working for" since the lack of a work contract (in some instances) does not acknowledge the writer as a regular employee of the company. Since I offer an employment contract to my writers, I have no problem with them telling others that they work for my company. It is their right to do so since we have a working relationship based on their contract with my company.

Freelance writing, for all intents and purposes, is considered an ethical job. It is a job that does not require a person to have an employer, punch the clock, and join the rat race. Instead, it offers the writer freedom when it comes to his employment requirements such as working hours, salary earner per project, and limited working expenses such as the cost of transportation, meal allowances, clothing requirements, etc. These are what makes the job logical in today's world that has expenses costing more than cab fare in some instances.

As for moral principles, you are confusing the freelance writing occupation with academic freelance writing. Simply freelance writing does not violate any ethical or moral standards because there is an employer on the other end who needs to be satisfied by the work of the writer. The gray area, or the question of "ethics" comes in with the consideration of the work done by an "academic" freelance writer. That is a totally different discussion. Do not use a generalized occupational term when you have a specific writing field in mind.

Private writers are normally better to deal with, but are not necessarily the best writers.

Unless you are working with a verified private writer such as @Freelancewriter or someone from the vetted writers list of ES, you cannot really be sure that you are dealing with one of the best and most reliable writers in the private academic writing field.

I normally tell people looking for private writers that the ones available on Twitter, FB, and Instagram are not very reliable since they do not belong to a group where their work, actions, and other information can be investigated and confirmed prior to working with them.

The best private writers, in my opinion, can be found here at ES because the company takes the guesswork out of the hiring process.

These are some of the best writers in the business and they can write at any level specified by the client.

Going back to the original discussion, since the rights to the paper belong to the client once it has been submitted, he has the right to use parts or all of the paper as he deems fit. However, in cases where blackmail is involved, then it would be better to ignore the threat, then either hire a new writer to write a new paper or, simply paraphrase the paper on your own. Majority of the work has been done, the information contained in the paper that was submitted is usable to a certain extent, so go ahead and sharpen your writing skills. Don't use parts of the essay but use the verified information presented for the creation of your new paper. It beats starting from scratch and will help you, or the writer you hire next, to develop your paper sooner. Researching materials takes a long time and by having the material prepared, the writer should find it easier to complete the task.

The blackmail aspect is the go-to response of the criminal academic writing companies because they never planned on submitting a proper paper to you in the first place. Now, provided you did not give out any personal or identifiable information in your essay, you can bet that the threat will not lead anywhere.

1. The students that my company caters to have made it clear to me that it is not the location of the company that matters to them. It is the quality of the work provided when compared to the cost paid for the service. So in response to your question, they would purchase an essay regardless of the actual location of the company if it means they get quality work at an affordable price.

2. When dealing with an internet based business, the location does not matter, only the cost. So I do not see the students boycotting the non-American service provided they deliver on the quality expectations of the client.

3. All genuine sites must provide A+ work. The client should expect nothing less considering that the paper is written by a highly educated ENL writer. Substandard work is not an option for genuine sites.

For one, ESL writers come from a totally different educational system, unless they were educated in an international school in their home country. If so, then their grasp of the English language will be as close to a native English speaker / student which will help them deliver the required A+ quality paper to the client. An ESL writer often struggles to learn the different international academic writing styles. Which is why I insist that the ESL writers who pass my company's entrance test attend a one week online seminar on the various writing styles common to the US and UK. Once they are familiar with the writing style, I can afford to let them loose on simple essay orders. Then they work their way up from there.

One has to consider that most of the ESL writers come in to the business without any real knowledge of how to write a proper academic US or UK paper. Full disclosure with my client requires me to indicate that they must choose whether they prefer an ENL or ESL writer. The CPP of their paper also goes up or down depending upon the type of writer that the client chooses. By indicating clear choices, the English level of the client is properly addressed and revision requests are avoided. I have found that allowing the students to choose the English writing skill of the writer has helped to prevent revision requests once the order has been submitted to the client.

A student who strives to complete a paper of any sort, be it an opinion paper, a research paper, a review, or any other type of paper should be admired. In an educational system where hiring someone to do the hard work for you has become the norm, these types of students are fast becoming an endangered species. This is a student who should have come out of his university studies a truly educated, well trained, and capable professional in whatever field of study he completed. I am sure that his peers also admired him for doing the paper on his own, most specially those who found themselves having to hire a writing service to complete a majority of their written work.

There are still students like the OP in college today. My editing service writers are busier than ever, working with students who just want their original work edited and polished in the hopes of increasing their grade on the paper once it is submitted. That is something that I am happy to help students do because they strive to complete their assignment on their own. Having professional assistance seems to serve as an inspiration to them as well because they learn how to better their writing presentation through the editing service.

Well, the main reason that I enjoyed being an academic writer, and why I still enjoy helping students as an academic outsourcing company owner is that it provided me with a wealth of free education. I always tell my friends, who are also freelance writers and who have been in the business just as long or far longer than I have, that I learned more writing papers for students than I ever did as a college student myself. Maybe it is something that comes with mental maturity, or maybe I just learned to love the job because it opened a world of learning regarding topics that I never knew I had an interest in, but whatever it was that made me stay in the business always circled back to my natural love of learning and my early academic life when I was writing essays for my classmates and friends, all for free. Learning that I could earn from doing something I loved is just icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

Consider that the other academic writing companies promise to deliver the highest quality possible for the papers being ordered from them and then, when compared to the final product, the client sees that the paper is not really up to his expectations, let alone the highest quality possible and you will understand why a poorly written essay should definitely be considered a scam. If one orders a Rolls Royce and then gets a Hyundai delivered to him, then a mistake has been made. If repeated requests to receive the Rolls Royce doesn't produce the expected result, then the person who ordered the car has been scammed. The same can be said for students who end up with a poorly written paper after paying a premium price for it and being promised an A+ level paper. There is no way of sugar coating it, nor can one deny it. A scam is a scam.

I wonder what became of the OP. She really sounded like she honestly needed a job. The problem, is that she was looking for a job in the wrong place. I would not hire anyone with that type of grammar at my company. I bet she would not even pass my academic requirements for the writer candidates. While I understand why she thinks that she can do the academic writing job, I hope she also understood why no company, not even a 3rd rate scam company, would hire her to do the job. It really saddens me to read about people who hope to make a living as an academic writer, but the prove that they can barely write a sentence in English. They cannot learn the language on the job. Which is why I believe that this person never got started in the business.

As the owner of an academic writing company, I'd tell my writers that good enough is never acceptable.

Either you deliver an A+ paper or be prepared to face revision requests.

Fines will be applied to any order that comes back 2 times or more for a revision.

My request is that they apply themselves to the client papers in the same manner that they would if they were writing their own paper.

That is the only way to assure the client of a high quality paper and is the main basis of my company's satisfaction guarantee.

The effort that they put into the paper always shows through the number of times the same client comes back to hire the same writer for his paper.

Once a client places a writer on retainer for the rest of the academic year, I know that my writer has been placing more than the required amount of effort into the writing of a particular client's paper.

Circling back to the original question, I do not believe that it would be difficult for an ESL writer to rake in the amount of money indicated. Provided he has the ability to create a herd of his own clients as an independent writer. If he has started working for an academic writing company, regardless of the company origins and has managed to spin himself off into an independent writer position by now, I bet that he is taking home more than that amount every month. Even if he is working only on the high school to college level papers.

Prolific ESL writers who manage to master the art of American and UK essay and research writing often find themselves in demand with their repeat clients, while taking in new clients at the same time. I have seen this happen with my own set of writers who are not native English speakers but who are highly educated in some of the best schools in their own country, whose medium of teaching is English. I also require that they have proof of having passed the TOEFL or IELTS test (a hard requirement on my part before hiring them as probational writers for 6 months) for English fluency assessment and order level assignment considerations. I don't mind paying them their cut of the CPP, or more than a thousand a month, provided the quality of their work is always at international academic standards and their work never undergoes a revision request.

If a person pays for an extensive piece of research with the intent to have it published, then he must make sure that the ownership of the intellectual and written copyright of the research is transferred to him via formal agreement or document. While it is an unspoken rule that any paper written for a client automatically gets all the pertinent rights transferred to the person who paid for the research once the full paper is submitted, it is best to ask for a written agreement to avoid future problems such as blackmail and other related threats to the client.

Personally, I tell my clients to change up the content of the research once I submit it to them. No, I do not mean they have to rewrite the whole paper, just revise the content enough so that any traces of them having paid someone to write the paper disappears. That gives them peace of mind regarding the content ownership. I also make sure that they receive my e-contract regarding the transfer of intellectual property rights as it pertains to the contents of the paper. That way they can publish the paper without worrying about my coming after them in the future for any reason.

Unless one has successfully dealt with a research site over several orders or academic semesters, it is difficult for a student to say that the research site is not a scam. Trust is actually something that a company and its writers have to earn over time. It is not something that a client should freely give the first time the student does business with the site. It is something that is cultivated using able writers, met deadlines, and high quality academic writing. Something that can only be proven to not be a scam through the length of the working relationship of a student with the company and its writer. This is not something that one can simply "spot", it is based on the working experience that has left the client highly satisfied and confident enough to refer the same site to other students who need academic writing help. That is the evidence that the "trust" factor has been built strongly between the involved parties when it comes to delivering on the student requirements for his written work.

I do not think paid mouths will be going out of style. These days, everything from blogging to tweets are for sale. Words now have value for the writers on a per word basis. That is how the internet works these days and that is how it will continue to function for decades to come. As social media platforms continue to evolve, so will the public relations procedures for these companies, regardless of their product. These mouths for hire work the same way other freelance writers do. They work from home, handle their time, and do not have any higher authority to answer for and yet, they manage to earn a decent income from it. The only results the company wants to see are an increase in their site or page visitors, along with an increase profile on Google for Adwords considerations. These paid publicity writers are here to stay because they accomplish what they are hired to do.

Nope. I do not believe I missed any point. Yes, I was speaking in general terms because the questions being asked were general in reference. I am sick and tired of having to defend the gray area of the academic writing industry when there is no need to do so. The colleges and universities know the business exists, the students use it, and the students pass their classes because of it. In one class of 10, I would say at least 8 use an academic writing service. Just like any crime, it only becomes a violation of the law if someone catches you doing it or, if someone snitches on you. In other words, if nobody sees it, then no crime was committed. Like I said though, academic writing is not a crime. There has never been a case of an academic writer being imprisoned or jailed because of his job. It is the best open secret in the academic world and I do not know of any writer who has done time for this type of work.

Sure there are clients who get conned, but that is not the point of the question is it? That was never referred to by the OP. If anything you are missing the general discussion being provided by the questions. You understood the questions one way, which may be right, there are no right or wrong responses to this discussion because that is all it is, a discussion. Nobody is every totally right and nobody is ever totally wrong. All that exists is a difference in opinion. My opinion is, you are trying to over analyze the questions that were asked by the OP.