The guy to whom you're responding hasn't posted here in more than 4 years. When he did post, it was somewhat obvious that it was several different users with varying degrees of butchered ESL-English and very limited intelligence sharing that account and collaborating to try to do anything possible to try to undermine confidence in legitimate American writers in the hope of steering business toward their horrible foreign ESL essay company. Their nonsensical and illiterate attacks in barely-comprehensible "English" and our subsequent responses were almost as helpful to us as paying for advertising. I wouldn't be too worried about any of their ridiculous arguments or accusations, because the average client understands that the illiteracy rate in Detroit (and other American cities) has nothing to do with any Americans with advanced degrees who have already established great reputations in this industry. Illiterate people tend not to establish successful decades-long careers writing grad-school academic projects.

The only reason you shouldn't say that is that it's an inaccurate and unfairly-broad statement that applies to every advertiser (including me) instead of being limited to whichever companies or writers you've actually used. I don't know anything about any of those companies that you've mentioned specifically (other than what I've read on this forum); but you should limit your accusations and pejorative characterizations to those service-providers with whom you've dealt instead of (also) disparaging other companies and/or writers about whose practices and work quality you know absolutely nothing.

Likewise, if your argument is that advertisers here should be better-vetted and that some shouldn't be permitted to advertise here based on publicly-available information about them, that's not necessarily an unfair argument; but you have neither justification nor any valid basis for concluding, much less announcing publicly, that all of the advertisers here are "just as horrible" as the one or two that you have actually tried.

It's been a long time since I checked the customer-facing websites of any of your dozen or more companies or "affiliated" companies. To the best of my recollection, the cheapest price of their essays a few years ago was $24.95/pg for long deadlines, but I acknowledge that I could be wrong about that, although not deliberately at all. Having just checked a couple of them in response to this comment, I see that one of those websites now charges $18/pg for projects with a 1-month deadline and another of them charges $18/pg for projects with a two-week deadline; and both of them charge $39/pg for projects with short deadlines.

However, I wrote very few projects for any of your companies that weren't very short deadlines, because the company rule prohibiting writers from taking only short-deadline assignments was never mentioned, much less ever enforced, at least in my case. The vast majority of the thousands of orders I wrote for your companies were 1-day or 2-day deadlines for which I believe your companies now charge at least $30/pg. Like some of the best and most experienced essay-company writers I know, unless cheaper longer-term projects were exceptionally easy or required only a page or less of writing, I almost always totally avoided any of those projects for which customers were billed $18/pg, because the writer payout for me was only $10/pg and only $8/pg for newer and/or less-experienced writers. The only reason that some of those orders were sometimes worth taking (at least for me) was that admin implemented my suggestion about instituting a 2-page minimum on all orders in 2008 or 2009; so after that, there were quite a few projects for only a single page of writing (or less) that were billed to customers at $18/pg x 2 pages even though they were actually only 1-pg projects, meaning their actual cost to the customer was at least $36, even for just one page of writing(or, sometimes, for just a half-page) with long deadlines.

"Ameliorate" isn't the word you want. Yes, it's a synonym for "improve," but not in that way: you'd modernize or rebuild infrastructure to "ameliorate" the problems posed by deteriorating roads and bridges, etc. While it's good to tie your statement to particulars about the program, it shouldn't sound like you're just cramming in those references or listing them merely for the sake of inclusion, because they already know what features their programs offer and they can immediately tell when someone is just trying to include that stuff in a superficial way.

Without knowing your age and level of professional experience, it's impossible to tell you whether it's completely appropriate to refer to the "cornerstone" of your career or just silly: If you've been an engineer for decades, that might be appropriate; but if you're still studying to become an engineer, it's ridiculously presumptuous. Either way, the word you want there is pinnacle, not "cornerstone" (which would be more appropriate referring to the most important part of a project, not a career).

Apparently, in your mind, any writer who happens to be able to express a coherent thought in complete, grammatically correct written English is necessarily violating forum rules by "advertising." This was a totally dead thread that hadn't even had a post in almost two years and not a single post in it from anybody could even remotely be considered "advertising" anything. Meanwhile, Mr. "Integrity" over here wants people to believe that he`s "above" breaking any forum rules and continually pretends that`s his problem with me (even though I haven`t broken any forum rules for a very long time):

Stop insulting the intelligence of anybody reading this nonsense by suggesting that breaking the rules of an online forum deeply offends your moral philosophy, but actually "attending grad school" to impersonate clients and "graduate them" is perfectly OK with you. You`re here for the exact same reason as every other writer and nobody with half a brain really believes that your continual unprovoked personal animosity toward me is strictly on "moral" grounds or is based in "integrity" and has "nothing" to do with trying to discredit another writer as an underhanded way of "competing" against him.

And I don`t have any "crew." One of the people who was banned is another company and freelance writer who competes directly against me (but always fairly and without having to resort to disparaging me), and the other was a poster about whom I know nothing more than you do. In case you don`t realize it, there are at least a half a dozen other legitimate writers here who also write for the same companies you accused those two banned posters (and me) of promoting here and neither that other writer nor I has any different relationship with or obligation to any of those companies than any of those other company writers on this forum. The only difference is that the other banned writer and I always used the same forum ID here as our company writer IDs.

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That's where the search function of this forum is very useful. Just plug in the name of any company or the U/N and/or email of any freelance writer you might be considering. If they've ever been discussed on this forum, you'll find those discussions; just make sure that you first change the default field from "topic titles" to "messages" so you find all of the comments about them and not just the few (if any) threads with that company or writer actually in the thread title.

I'd agree with this only to the extent that it relates either to the quality of a specific project or to the rapport or "chemistry" between clients and writers. However, I'd strongly disagree with this to the extent it relates to basic honesty and legitimacy. I don't believe there's such a thing as any writer who actually delivers projects to some customers but not to others. Writers (and companies) might do a better job on some projects than on others, and they may have a very different rapport with some customers; but either they're in business to actually provide the projects for which they're paid or they're in business to rip customers off and scam them out of their money without any intention of ever delivering the projects for which they're paid.

As is the case with other types of businesses, if it seems too good to be true, it almost always is; and to the extent that's the case even when the industry is well regulated, it's even more true in a totally unregulated industry, such as this one.

Are there any totally legit essay companies that will actually provide the essay that you order? Definitely. I wrote thousands of essays for some of them. Unfortunately, they're far-outnumbered by the scam companies.

Are there any good writers working at legit essay companies? Definitely. I wrote for some of them for many years, along with several other very good writers who, like me, have since either transitioned to working independently or moved on to different careers. Generally, writing academic essays for hire isn't something that many people who can write well enough to be any good at it continue doing for many years. More typically, they just do it while they're in grad school themselves or in between more traditional types of jobs.

You always need to read their websites with your BS-detector set to very high. Here are a few reasons why that's true:

1. There's no such thing as any essay company that "only" employs writers with "advanced degrees." Some writers might have advanced degrees in one field; most do not. None of them only writes projects in the same specific academic field as his or her formal educational degree.

2. Your projects do not get "assigned" to a writer with a degree (much less an "advanced" degree) in the specific field of your particular project. Even at the best of the legitimate essay companies, all assignments simply get posted on an assignment board where they can be taken by any writer on a first-come/first-served basis. Nobody "assigns" projects to specific writers and there's no process to monitor what projects are taken by whom in real time. Writers (especially newer ones) often vastly overestimate their abilities and the company only hears about it after customers start complaining. At the best companies, writers who produce lousy work just get terminated after enough complaints pile up, which doesn't do you much good if you already received work from one of those writers. [I've read (here) that some companies restrict their inexperienced writers from more advanced types of projects, but I've never seen such a system personally. The only company for which I ever wrote that had different classifications of writers recruited me directly from this forum and started me off at the highest level; so, I have no idea whether writers at lower classifications saw fewer available projects than I saw or just got paid less for the same projects.]

3. There's no such thing as any "money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied."

4. There's no such thing as "unlimited free revisions."

5. You cannot judge the likely quality (or even basic legitimacy) of any company by the quality and/or functionality of the website. Some of the worst scam companies out there have beautifully-designed websites and interactive "chat" systems with representatives. They'll spare no expense on their websites and no amount of kind patience or effort with your questions and concerns prior to your order, and they'll give you all of the most-reassuring answers necessary to gain your trust. They can afford to do this, because gaining your trust and convincing you to place an order is their only real function. Once they have your money, their job is done, as is their interest in responding to your concerns in any real way. If you have a complaint about your essay after receiving it, you'll find out immediately that the overly-polite helpfulness that you encountered prior to the sale and relied on in choosing that company was turned off like a light switch the instant your payment went through.

6. No essay company actually has any "professors" writing essays for them.

7. You get what you pay for. If English is your natural language, don't expect an essay that's going to be useful to you for $10 or $15 or $20/pg.

As I've suggested many times, whether you try out an essay company or an independent freelance writer, always start with a very small project first or with a small section of a larger project. Start that process as early in the school term as possible, because if you wait until a few days before a large project is due, you won't have that option.

You found an essay company last year, so you decided to sign up here today just to tell us about it?


Presumably, you're just one person living in one place who required help in one course "last year." So, how do you know what they do or don't "provide to the Students & professionals all over the world"?

I don't think that all independent writers necessarily believe that we're the best. However, those of us who wrote thousands of essays for essay companies (including many projects first botched badly by other company writers) before branching out on our own do have some reasonable basis for knowing where we stand in the industry and how our work compares to that of other writers, especially inexperienced writers.

The tradeoff is that at most companies, the project just gets posted on a public bulletin board of one form or another where any one of dozens (or hundreds) of writers with widely-differing levels of experience and ability can choose to take the order. Some company writers have been doing this successfully for many years, whereas others who might choose to take the project might have just been hired and might have no more writing experience than the client.

Also, as I've explained before:

(1) Any good writer who's been in this business for a long time has established relationships with other good writers who can back him up in an emergency.

(2) Practically every successful independent writer either used to write for essay companies before establishing a large enough clientele to work independently or still writes for companies at the same time that he's building up his private clientele; and in many cases, the established independent writers are some of the top writers at the best essay companies.

(3) It's even more important for us independent writers to provide work that's good enough to enable us to keep every good client we get than it was for us when we worked at essay companies.

As usual, the English on the website is obviously ESL and at least one of those "testimonials" was almost certainly written by the same person pretending to be the satisfied customer named "Steve Jones."


From the website: "...it is then that I decided to avail help from them."

For whatever it's worth, the legit American companies don't cheat or deceive their customers, which is a totally separate issue from whatever criticism someone may want to level against the whole practice of selling academic ghostwriting.

I don't know how or why certain kinds of scams and schemes become so popular in specific countries, but operatives in Kenya (and Ukraine) seem to have embraced essay-writing-service scams the same way Nigerians pioneered the first of the "419" schemes years ago. Either way, simply recognizing that certain types of scams and schemes have become popular in specific countries doesn't amount to racism.

The first thing I'd check is the quality of the writing on the website itself, because essay companies usually use their own best writers to provide their website copy. Keep in mind that even good writing on a website doesn't necessarily mean that a company is legit or that all of its writers are as good as the writer(s) who wrote the web copy; but if a reader can't make it to the 3rd word in the first sentence on the first page before encountering obvious writing mistakes*, that's usually not a great sign.

"Not only *[do]*we provide our customers with the most professional writing services of unmatched quality, but when ordering essay*[-]* writer help from SpeedyPaper *[,]*You are treated like a friend."

That's from the SP homepage and it's not somewhere buried in a dense page of text where a professional proofreader supposedly providing "the most professional writing services of unmatched quality" could conceivably miss it: it's literally the very first sentence on the website. Somehow, every person responsible for writing and proofreading over there missed 3 mistakes; and I'm not even including the utter weirdness and unprofessional capitalizing of "You" throughout the website anywhere it references the customer. In my opinion, any writer who invents those kinds of random "conventions" in website copy is likely to do the same writing projects. (Professors hate that kind of thing in student projects.)

I received an unsolicited email from a seemingly-legit Kenyan writer recently asking me for advice about getting into this industry. She provided what seemed to be her full ID info and what seemed to be a genuine resume and she seemed quite sincere. However, I had to tell her that her emails alone made it obvious to me that she just didn't have the necessary writing ability to do this job. If you can't compose a mistake-free email, you can't write academic projects (or much else) for a living.

In my opinion, the OP focused on the wrong variable in the equation: writing speed. Increasing the speed of your writing isn't something that you can (or should) consciously try to do, because it's only going to increase mistakes and decrease other aspects of the quality of your work. What you should focus on is gradually increasing the volume of your work, meaning how much good writing you can produce in a day or in a week.

When I first started doing this for a fulltime living, it was challenging to write more than 1 project in a day and the thought of writing a 10-pg project in a day or overnight was very intimidating. Within a few years, I was routinely writing 10-pg projects in a single sitting and smaller projects before and afterwards with only a short break in between.

Plenty of times, I (still) find myself working on a large project when a smaller project comes in due much earlier. So, you also have to learn how to switch gears smoothly, to suspend work on one project, write another one (or more than one) quickly, and then go right back to the first one. Especially, when I was doing most of my writing for companies instead of freelance work, I had many nights where I started out writing one project on my schedule and in between starting and finishing that project overnight, I'd taken and completed 3 or 4 shorter projects as soon as they went up on the assignment board.

You become better at all the other parts of the job besides the actual writing: such as finding the source material you need, organizing your thoughts, and figuring out how you're going to structure and outline the project. All of that's just about getting better at a process; but to the extent the speed of your actual writing is concerned, that's something that improves by itself as you write more. If you try to push it deliberately, you'll produce worse work and you'll also be more susceptible to burnout. Remember, it's not just about how much work you can produce in one week; it's how much good work you can produce week after week, 52 weeks per year, year after year. Those are two very different things.

Correct.

Whether someone earns a living as a landscaper, hair stylist, car mechanic, dog groomer, child-day-care operator, dentist, or a freelance academic writer, none of us has anything whatsoever to gain by telling a client that we just don't want his business anymore. We make our living from keeping as many clients as possible, not from turning anybody away. For anybody whose trade depends largely on client retention, refusing future work from an existing client is something we only do as a last resort and only because the client is so annoying and wastes so much of our time with ridiculous email exchanges that his business is just not worth the hassle of dealing with him.

The types of things that could precipitate that reaction from me are precisely the same types of things that all of us know (or should know) not to do when we're the ones in the position of customer patronizing someone else's professional services. For example, as a customer of any online service, I know that it's important for me to read the posted FAQs that the business has taken the time to publish and not to ask any questions already fully answered there or (especially) to ask the provider to deviate from what's explained in those FAQs, because I understand that I'm not a "special case" and that the answers to those FAQs apply to me as much as to every "other" client. I know not to cancel appointments on short notice or (even worse) to make appointments and then just not show up for the appointment. If my car mechanic tells me that my car won't be ready before closing time, I know not to bother him with a phone call every hour throughout the day asking whether my car is ready yet. When I'm in the role of customer, I conduct myself the same way I expect my clients to conduct themselves with me.

For the years 2014 through 2017, I have well over 100 client folders for each of those years, representing approximately 100 different clients each year (many of whom are the same clients from multiple years). Out of those 100 or so clients served per year, I've probably cut loose only 1 or 2. By the time I did that, it was because I just didn't have the patience to deal with their childishness and/or the time to deal with their volume of totally unnecessary annoying emails.

I completely understand that brand new clients sometimes have many questions and that they are skeptical about hiring any writer online and fearful of getting ripped off. My patience with their emails reflects that understanding. However, once we've already done business several times very successfully, I do expect them to eliminate totally unnecessary emails. The vast majority of them (roughly 98 or 99 out of 100+ last year) do exactly that: Even if our very first transaction required a dozen or more emails, once they've actually received their first project from me, future projects with clients who conduct themselves appropriately involve only a very few emails. Typically, they know to send me a single new email with all the basic project info pasted and only larger files attached and with the desired length and due date in the subject field of that new-project email. They receive a price quote; they issue payment immediately, and then they receive the project on or before the deadline, exactly as promised. Incidentally, this reflects both common sense and standard practice in business emails once you're out in the work force, so it's a good lesson to learn while you're still in school.

Approximately 1 or 2 out of 100 clients in a typical year don't do that. Instead, they'll do the following types of thing even after I've explained very clearly exactly how to place subsequent orders and how not to waste my time unnecessarily :

1. Email just to ask me if I'm "available" (after I've told you that's never necessary) instead of just sending me all the project information in the first new email.

2. Ask me "how long do you need" for a project instead of following the directions in my FAQs to provide your desired due date or choice of 2 due dates in case the difference affects pricing.

3. Always respond to old emails with the previous project in the subject field to ask about new projects instead of using the subject field properly, so it's impossible for me to use the email search function to find (or distinguish) emails about specific projects later.

4. Omit essential info (such as due date and desired length) so that I have to email you to just to ask for that.

5. Receive my price quote (immediately) on a project due in 2 weeks and then never respond again until 10 days later to let me know that you "just paid" the quote I gave you 10 days ago so that I have to spend my time explaining why the price for 3 or 4-day delivery isn't the same as the price I quoted for 2-week delivery 10 days ago.

6. Take offense at that and argue with me asking me to "honor" the original price quote.

7. Pay me several days after receiving a quote with PayPal account linked to a totally different email account and no note on the transaction that offers so much as a hint about which client (or project) that payment is for so I have to waste my time searching through all of my recent inquiries to figure out who paid me for what project.

8. Contact me a few days after delivery of a project completed perfectly to tell me that the professor now wants you to develop a different element (such as to add a new perspective or incorporate a new reading assignment) and actually make me explain that I'm perfectly happy to continue with the developing project all semester if necessary, but that the newly-added element is (obviously) going to be additional paid work and not "included" as part of the original 2-page assignment. (Yes, a few clients actually do have to be told this and some of them even complain because they think the 2 pages for which they paid me includes all of the subsequent elements that their professors add on afterwards to build on that initial assignment with new readings and a brand new deadline.)

9. Beg me to take on an "urgent emergency" project due the same day and then complain about the price after paying for it and receiving the project done perfectly and delivered on time, as promised.

10. Do almost all of the above and then have the lack of basic common sense and the nerve to also ask me for a "discount" because you're a "repeat customer," despite the fact that my FAQs explain very clearly that I don't do that because almost ALL of my clients are "repeat" customers and despite the fact that, unlike roughly 98 or 99 out of 100+ clients, you do everything possible to waste my time by not following the same directions that the other 98 or 99 clients out of 100+ seem to have no problem following after our first project or two.

11. Take personal offense to the fact that I warn you first (and usually several times) that if you continue making my work unnecessarily difficult and wasting my time by not following my very simple directions, I'm just going to stop taking your projects because I don't have the time to waste and don't need the headache.

12. Come back to this forum to complain about having a writer who was "mean" or "horrible" to you and to characterize a matter-of-fact warning that I'm almost ready to stop taking your work as some kind of "threat."

Every service provider in (almost) every industry has the right to decide to cut a client loose and to refuse to take his future work exactly the way every customer in every industry has the same right to find another provider if he's dissatisfied, for any reason, with that service provider.

In the particular case of the (former) customer who started this thread, he had absolutely no complaints about the quality of my work and had previously referred to it as "amazing." The first time he used me in November of 2013, his response to my work was: "Yes, i just finished reading it. It is amazing! Thank you very much - you are an excellent writer!"

He was also kind enough to leave this review of my services here: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/freelancewriter-review-4605/


There's a huge difference between being impatient with difficult clients who waste my time unnecessarily and being "not nice", let alone "horrible" as described in Ryan's post simply because I tell you in advance that I won't be entertaining any further emails from you if you continue wasting my time unnecessarily to answer ridiculous emails.

With respect to the specific exchange referenced by Ryan above (and without divulging anything about his identity or the project), these are the facts:

After using me several times with great results, he emailed me on a Thursday night (I believe) asking for very short turnaround on a new 1,500-word project. I received that email while I was in the middle of a my building Board meeting and simply responded with the price "per page." I'd previously explained to him exactly how to compute pages from word counts using very simple math (285 words per page), which is also clearly explained on my FAQs page. Instead of at least asking a reasonable (but still totally unnecessary) question such as "How many pages is 1,500 words?" He responded to that with the following nonsense indicating that he expected me to just write the project and then pay me afterwards:

"Sure, totally happy with that as long as it arrives on time. If it's per page, then i can only pay you once you finished. See you on Friday?"

Anybody who has read my FAQs and any client who has already used me, knows that I never even schedule a project, much less actually write it, before it's paid in full. After a long history of annoying emails on every project from him, I was pretty much done being patient when he responded that he's going to pay me after delivery instead of (at the very least) just asking how many pages 1,500 words is, and I had no more patience to explain (again) that I don't do that and that we do NOT have a confirmed deadline for "Friday" for unpaid work and that he was wasting my time unnecessarily, and my subsequent responses reflected that annoyance in my tone. I responded as follows:

"Please don't even bother emailing me again for any reason if prepayment in full is an issue...it's not negotiable and you're just wasting my time...and yours...I don't even schedule anything until payment clears...no exceptions...thank you."

His response to that was:

"I don't understand. Please don't take offence. if i pay you per page, then how on earth am i meant to know how much i pay you?...You never told me how many pages it'll take you, so how am i meant to know how many pages and how much to pay you? I'm not psychic."

My last response to him on that (erring in his favor on the page count, too) was:

"1500 wds is 5 pgs...you always pay in advance and I write however many pages you request and pay for...and I'm going to start ignoring and deleting your emails very soon if you continue along this path..."

Incidentally, in the meantime, while I was in the same building Board meeting, someone I consider to be a very easy client sent me a single email with a new proposed assignment and due date. He pasted his requested topic info into a single email instead of making me open multiple emails and attached files with info he could have easily pasted just to see what the project was about. I responded to him in the exact same way as my original polite response to Ryan with a per-page price and he paid immediately. Total # of emails back and forth with the easy client: 2. Total number of unnecessary questions the answer to which he should already have known from using me before: 0. Perfect transaction from an easy client, and the price I gave him also reflected that.

Another time, Ryan asked for and paid for a very difficult "1,000-word" project whose specs included a difficult Excel component, asking for same-day delivery. He requested some revisions after delivery - also, coincidentally, while I was at another building Board meeting - and I responded to his email while I was still at that meeting, telling him that I might not get out of the meeting in time to make the revisions within the next several hours. When the meeting was over, I did the revisions for him immediately as soon as I got home instead of working out the way I'd planned to that night and I sent them to him before his requested deadline and he thanked me. I think that's pretty "nice," especially since his request for revisions said it was perfectly OK if I couldn't do them, meaning I could have just skipped doing them altogether if I'd wanted to be "not nice" to Ryan. I also had to include a note explaining to him that when you order and pay for "1,000 words" and your project also requires Excel spread sheets and financial calculations, it's inappropriate to complain that you "only got 650 words of text" because you "don't know how to count" the words in the spread sheet, or to start complaining about the agreed price of a very difficult rush order after the fact, which he did after I sacrificed my evening to help him out instead of telling him I was unavailable and just enjoying my free time.

My exact response to Ryan at the time before I did all the revisions he'd requested later that night was as follows:

"I'm at a building Board meeting right now and cannot guarantee that I'll have a chance to go back to this in time...if I can I will...but this took a LOT more time than writing a straight 1,000 words and every word in the excel boxes certainly does "count" if you're complaining about word count. Count them first before complaining.

I squeezed this in for you on very short notice and if you're going to give me this kind of response to this kind of work, then I suggest you go find yourself another writer in the future because I have too many very appreciative clients to take work from anybody who responds along these lines. I charge VERY fairly for my time and it's not my fault you waited until the last minute.

You should probably revise yourself to be safe but if I get out of this meeting in time, I'll revise. I won't even be reading further emails on this until after my meeting concludes."

Basically, if you make it easy for me to help you and you don't continually waste my time once we're already beyond the stage where you're not sure about using me in the first place, you get a much "nicer" tone in all of my responses and you also get a better price. If you regularly make things unnecessarily difficult for me and waste my time, you get a less "nice" tone to subsequent emails after a "nice" initial response, and I do also take that annoyance factor into account in future pricing because time is money. I'm fortunate that my hard work has rewarded me with enough clients that I can just let go of the ones who waste my time and annoy me on a regular basis. Every person who works for himself in (almost) every field has that prerogative.

I wish Ryan the best of luck in the future, but I just didn't need his business enough to deal with his continued pattern of annoying emails, so I simply told him that I didn't want his business anymore. There was nothing "mean" or "not nice" or "horrible" about that decision or about how I communicated it to him by the time I got to the point where I decided not to accept any of his subsequent projects.

If students were to contact you, would these be the types of corrections that you'd teach, so that your clients won't make at least 12 obvious mistakes in 4 very short sentences ?


*an


*1 An
*2 essay, not "essays"
*3 paper, not "papers"


*1 lecturers want or lecturer wants
*2 an essay paper


*1 a
*2 find, not "take"
*3 give, not "gives"
*4 the, not "with"

All of the above is accurate. Even if the company isn't an actual scam that takes your money and never provides any work for it, the fact that it's registered properly means absolutely nothing in terms of whether or not the work they do provide is actually any good. As I was just explaining to the latest client who contacted me tonight after choosing a cheaper provider a few weeks ago, at least once a month someone asks me for a price quote and then decides to go with someone cheaper, only to contact me again asking me to quote the exact same project, except for a much shorter deadline because the work that the cheaper provider furnished turned out to be so bad it was unusable to the client. When that happens, they usually end up paying me more than my original quote because of the shorter deadline in addition to the money they already wasted on the unusable projects they received from some company with a beautiful website that was "properly registered" as a business I rarely warn them in advance, because I never want anybody to feel that I'm pressuring him to use me or just trying to scare him away from using someone else, but, as I said, this happens at least once a month and those clients end up paying quite a lot just to get that project done properly. That's why my standard response anytime someone tells me he decided to go with some other provider is: "No problem and feel free to try me again anytime if you're not happy with the work you find cheaper."

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We're not permitted to make specific recommendations here, but if you go through old forum threads, you should be able to figure out who's legit fairly easily.

Eventually, as the use of academic ghostwriters becomes ubiquitous, academic institutions will have no choice but to start re-evaluating their traditional emphasis on out-of-class written assignments, especially for majors whose graduates won't actually be doing any formal writing in their careers. Writing assignments are, to a great degree, inspired by traditional approaches to education and serve relatively little value for many types of careers. In my opinion, that's going to be the biggest threat to this industry for those who are already working in it successfully.

Command of English is what we would call a necessary but insufficient requirement to produce high-quality projects for ENL clients. By itself, perfect command of English (obviously) doesn't necessarily mean that someone also has all the other skills required for the job; it's just one basic necessity. It doesn't matter how good someone's research is if his English isn't up to ENL standards; conversely, perfect English isn't going to be much help if someone isn't also a very good researcher and writer with enough experience to produce excellent academic work. There are many people who speak perfect English but couldn't write well to save their lives and there are many people who have great research skills but just don't have the ability to express themselves clearly in good enough English to pass for ENL.

I agree that ESL writing is usually very easily identifiable and that projects written by the vast majority of ESL writers are, therefore, only suitable for ESL students. There are definitely exceptions, including my father and uncle and one of my high school English teachers, as I've acknowledged many times.

However, I disagree that it's the modern evolution of English as a language that's the issue. Most of those changes are colloquial, which means they don't really belong in academic writing in the first place. IMO, what makes ESL writing so obvious has much more to with ordinary (meaning traditional and not newly-evolved) use of standard English idioms and the correct use of standard articles, especially "the," which ESL writers typically omit from many places where it's absolutely required and typically add where it's completely wrong to do so. Professors expect that from ESL students and usually make corrections but don't downgrade the project for them. However, when those same characteristically-ESL mistakes appear in projects submitted by native speakers, they're red flags to any professor who knows that the student is American that someone else who is not American wrote the project for the student.

When it comes to the modern evolution of English as a language, I'd be curious to see an example of what you have in mind that you think might be characteristic of ESL writers to get wrong.

Thanks, but I'm not sure what you're asking (or implying). The students is solely in control of when he or she requests a project in relation to a deadline, not the writer. Ordinarily, a draft (if required on the student's end) is due sometime before the final version. If, for some reason, a customer requests both a "draft" and a final version for the same rush deadline, I don't have a problem providing both together, but it's (obviously) going to cost more than a project delivered without any draft that I didn't need to write to produce a perfect essay.

The main point is that when you've written so many thousands of projects, you no longer need to write "drafts" the way students and less experienced writers usually need to; you just write the project and edit it as you're writing it and then make minor changes in the proofreading stage. Ordinarily, those degrees and types of changes don't really qualify as a "draft" where one is specifically assigned. However, if for whatever reason, a draft is requested to be delivered simultaneously with the final version, that's not a problem; it's just going to cost more than the same project without a draft because it's something I don't need to write in addition to the actual project..

If I needed to write "drafts" first, the client would be more than welcome to them at no charge. The point is simply that if I don't need to write a draft in the first place but the client requests one, that means I have to do additional writing to produce a "draft" instead of simply writing the actual project, and that if I have to spend more time coming up with additional writing besides the actual project, that's obviously got to be paid as extra work, because that's exactly what it is. But it's not a problem to provide if it's paid for. I don't charge full price for the draft, because it's either adaptable to the project to some degree (or actually written after the fact and heavily based on the essay after it's written; but it's always extra paid work.

More generally, some clients contact me asking for projects within a few hours of their deadline, and sometimes, those requests are just totally unrealistic or impossible because of their length and/or because I'm already busy with another deadline that night or just otherwise unavailable without having to cancel my non-work plans (like my workout, a hockey game, a building board meeting, or just plans with the wife, etc.) on that particular evening, which reflects bad time management on the part of the client. It's one thing to procrastinate so long that you have to hire a writer for your project a few days before it's due in the first place; but it's another level of procrastination and irresponsibility entirely not to bother even contacting a writer until a few hours before your deadline. If I happen to be available on such notice (or if I'm willing to cancel my other plans to squeeze it in for your emergency, I won't refuse to do it; but understand that the rush and inconvenience on my end is always going to cost a premium for reasons that should be obvious.

That's one reason clients are so much safer using a writer who has a very long verifiable history under the same forum S/N and/or online ID, because it would be impossible to operate any kind of extortion scheme like that for many years without changing online identities constantly. Successful and reputable veteran writers really have no need to use your project for anything after it's delivered, but there's no harm in asking your writer to agree in writing to keep your identity confidential and not to make any further use of your information or your project. However, if you're unlucky enough to have hired someone who either intends or is inclined to misuse your info and/or your project, that kind of person isn't going to change his intentions or behavior just because of a written agreement. As far as misusing customer info in the form of identity theft and/or blackmail goes, it really isn't necessary or helpful to put that into any agreement for the same reason, and more importantly, simply because those are already very serious crimes and they're already prosecutable without any private agreement between you specifically prohibiting them.

Re: myassignmentservices.co.uk - If you already have a recommendation from someone you know personally, why would you need the opinions of strangers online? (In other words, it's obvious that you work for the company you're asking about and not really looking for any help or advice.)

It's not "plagiarism," but it's academically dishonest and it's something that any professor would expressly prohibit if you asked for permission to do in advance. They expect you to do all the research necessary for every course project; they don't expect you to do research for one topic and then adapt that same research for written projects in different courses instead of researching a new topic. If you doubt that and you genuinely want to avoid doing anything wrong, you can just ask the professor that question. (The answer will almost always be instructions not to choose any topic for which you have already done all the research in connection with any previous project.)

Just yesterday, I took two projects from a new client AFTER she'd already paid 50% to someone she found on Reddit who told her to issue payment to a PayPal account with an entirely different email from the one he'd been using to communicate with her. She only did her research about how to find a legit writer afterwards.

Agreed. What customers choose to do with their essays has nothing to do with their right to receive whatever they paid for from their writers or essay companies.

If the rules and honor code of your school prohibit collaborating with others on your assignments, there's simply no way to use a purchased custom essay without violating those rules and codes. Even if you follow the advice to rewrite it entirely in your own voice, you're still using the intellectual ideas and the research of someone else without attribution, which violates the honor codes of most academic institutions. Likewise, "paraphrasing" another writer (even the author of a book or article that you read to write your own project) and then citing that author's original source as though you found that information in the original source yourself instead of citing whatever book or article you read is also rank plagiarism. In reality, no student is ever going to "cite" Acme Custom Essay Company (or whatever) as a "reference" in any project for very obvious reasons and nobody is paying $30 or $40 or more per page just to rewrite the entire essay himself after receiving it. Reading the purchased essay once before adding a cover page is about all that many students do before submitting the project for credit, and plenty of them probably skip the reading part of that. That's entirely their choice and I'm not commenting one way or the other about that or making any ethical judgments about it; but to suggest otherwise is just ridiculous.

That's why I've learned to save documents to both my pc and to a backup flash drive after every page (at least) so that every document is protected against a pc crash and no more than a single page of writing (or less) can ever be lost if my pc freezes while I'm writing.


Correct. That's also one great thing about this forum: it provides a very simple way of confirming how long some of us have been here, operating under a single public ID for at least a decade or more.

It's amazing how many entities continue to try to generate income from the custom-essay-writing industry without ever actually providing any real custom-written-essay services. Their target market seems to be the same ever-continuing list of one-time customers to rip off one way or another.

If you have a 50-pg project but don't already have a relationship with a writer or company you trust, just order a section at a time instead of paying for the whole thing up front.

For many years, I relied almost exclusively on essay companies for my writing income. At no time did I consider the company to be "leeching" off of me, simply because I accepted their work with full understanding of what my pay would be and that they were in the business of selling the work produced by their writers. It takes a long time to build up your own clientele in this business and while it's certainly preferable to keep 100% of the market price of your work, new writers probably need essay companies much more than established essay companies need new writers. Certainly, do your best to cultivate your own clientele and transition to working for yourself as soon as that becomes viable for you; but understand that nobody is forcing you to write for any essay company and that you don't really have any valid basis to call them "leeches" as long as your reliance on them is voluntary and they pay you exactly what they promise to pay you for your work.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a "problem," because it's only 1 or 2 new clients out of 100 who ask to talk by phone, and they usually understand when I explain why all of our project-related communications need to be via email. Most of the time, the only reason they ask in the first place is because this whole process is new to them and they just don't realize how much of what they think they need to tell me is stuff that a professional academic writer already knows.

Those suggestions might work for new, inexperienced, low-volume writers who only have to worry about several deadlines per week (if that, even), especially if they spend several days writing a 10 or 20-pg project. They're totally impractical for experienced, high-volume writers who routinely bang out 10 or 20-pg projects in a day or (sometimes) 4 or 5 shorter projects in one day or overnight, as the case may be. I already spend enough time just responding to new inquiries and handling client communications. There's just no way a really busy writer can stop projects to send partial drafts and then wait for client commentary and another partial payment before returning to the project. If the project is no longer than 10 pages or so, I'll usually write it in a single sitting with maybe a quick meal or a snack break. I need to be able to finish the project as soon as I can write it well; and that's much faster than I could possibly turn a project around under any scenario involving that much back and forth once I've started writing. Time is money; and that suggested scenario wastes way too much of both.

Furthermore, anytime you open up the process to include client feedback and requests, especially when payment is still pending, you're going to get forced to make all sorts of changes for free that aren't fairly owed, because all of the specs and instructions are supposed to be provided in advance. If I follow them properly, there's no back and forth for clients to chime in with editorial commentary while I'm still working. Editorial comments and corresponding requests are always charged fairly as extra work if those requests weren't in the original specs. If you accept payment after any section is complete, you're inviting unfair demands for unpaid editorial revisions from clients who will hold your payment for those sections as leverage unless or until you accommodate their requests. Anybody who's been doing this for any length of time knows how ridiculous some of those after-the-fact demands can be. (This has nothing to do with rewrite demands that are fairly owed, such as where the writer misses something in the specs that the client provided for the order.)

Under your system the writer is always taking a risk that some of his work might not be paid. Clients might find that kind of arrangement with new writers, but busy, experienced, high-volume writers don't have time for it and are way too busy writing to take the risk or to deal with any of the headaches that are guaranteed to come along with a substantial portion of those kinds of orders. Conversely, all new clients ever have to do with us experienced, high-volume writers is try us with a few pages first to check the quality of our work and make sure that we're legit. Then, they can just order longer and longer prepaid projects or sections of projects. Ultimately, clients just have to know that it's probably always going to be a choice between newer, less experienced writers who need work desperately enough to be more "flexible" with their payment terms and much more experienced writers who have already earned a high enough work load through their long-term reputations that they just don't have the time to mess around with partial payments and payments after work has been done. Clients should understand that if they're also hoping to find the best writers, there will usually be a substantial qualitative difference between the work produced by those two types of writers, or, to be as fair as possible, between writers currently at very different stages of their respective careers.

I just did a quick search on the website of the company for which I wrote the most projects from 2003 to 2013. The list of my old essays is 12 pages long. Many of them are at least 10 years old, but they'd probably still be useful to learn how to approach and organize essays on similar topics.

If a new client just needs to hear my voice to make sure that I'm an American and/or that I'm really located in NYC, I don't have a problem with one call strictly for that purpose. They're also welcome to the # of NYLS to verify my law degree. Otherwise, the last thing I need is clients calling me about their projects. I answer most emails immediately 24/7/365 unless I'm sleeping or out of the house and I always want everything discussed between us to be in writing via email, mainly, so that I can instantly search for anything from any client on every project and so there's always a written record of what was (and what wasn't) communicated. If I book a project a week or a month in advance, I'm not going to remember a verbal conversation about it by the time I get to it, which means I'd have to start taking notes from those phone calls. It's exceptionally rare that I ever have any need to discuss a project other than via email. Meanwhile, many first-time clients have absolutely no idea how obvious and unnecessary most of what they think they need to communicate to me so urgently is to anyone who has been doing this for a living since the client was in grade school (or diapers), and those questions and reminders (such as "please avoid plagiarism!" and "please use good grammar!" and "I forgot to mention that my professor says not to use first-person for academic writing!") would be even more annoying by phone than by email.

I'd be much more worried about essay companies that don't disclose that they resell their projects than I would be about essay companies that do disclose that they resell their projects. If there's any monetary value to projects after they're provided to the original customer, it's probably a safe assumption that the company does resell them, notwithstanding that the market for prewritten papers has largely been killed off by plagiarism scanning. Even many of the plagiarism scanners save anything submitted to them for scanning and (probably) resell those projects through affiliated essay companies without ever disclosing that to anybody using their "free" scanning tools. If their TOS grant them copyright to anything scanned, they wouldn't even have to divulge that they resell your essays because they've secured ownership by your consent to their TOS as a condition of using their scanning system. At least the companies who actually do disclose this practice typically wait at least a few months after delivery to the original customer; the companies who deliberately avoid disclosing this practice probably don't even wait before reselling them.

Actually, she didn't think I forgot at all. She made a point of saying that she'd pay for it in advance and still referred to paying me for those other two projects as soon as she "could." This was 7 or 8 years ago.