This isn't really true, it is the act of handing something in as your own which you did not write which is the plagiarism. Whether you infringed copyright law is dependent on if you own the rights to the work or not. As such the two issues of plagiarism and copyright are separate. Also like JohnsMom states in many cases the contract (if buying from a company) does not necessarily transfer the rights to the work from writer to customer, there is no automatic transfer, it is the terms of the contract which will define who is the owner.

Hmm I'm guessing the reviewer corrected rate is going to be around 100%. I'll take a rain cheque.

No - I take it for granted that a client is going to pass off my work as their own despite the game we all play. If they really wanted a "sample" they could just get something from an essay bank at a fraction of the cost. I write for the money, if I get that then there's nothing to be upset about from my perspective.

The basic problem is that unless a foreign student is studying English, the University assumes that the student already has a sufficient grasp of the English language to be able to meet the requirements of the course. It is not the role of the University in this case to teach the student English to the required standard as well as the subject being studied. This however is evidently not the case for many students who may struggle with even a basic essay. As such the foreign student not able to use English sufficiently well outsources the work to a writer/company. The University gets the money (tuition fees) they are happy, student gets the qualification they are happy, the writer/company simply facilitates the transaction in way which allows every one to save face and carry on pretending we have a fair education system :)

No just ones who break the terms of service and post the same comments in several posts unnecessarily within hours of opening an account here.

Funny, you have made eight posts today and all of them are recommendations for the same company, you must be one happy customer...

I agree - I don't think not being born in an English speaking country or having multiple languages makes you a non-native if you have been reading and writing English since the age of five. I'd just carry on and conduct your business as a native would - you are really anyway.

I don't know how common it is across the board. The first University I went to was very strict on the issue and I know of students who were asked to discuss their papers further with a lecturer. However, some schools (including some very good ones) don't care less they need the money from overseas ESL students and seem to overlook the fact that a student who barely speaks English can turn in a native quality essay. I suspect this will continue while funding is tight but that's my opinion rather than a statement of fact.

Never heard of a formal "oral test" taking place as a result of plagiarism however, if a lecturer suspects plagiarism it may be quite normal practice as part of the investigation to call the student in for a "chat" about the content of the paper. If the student has handed in the paper without even bothering to read it such a "chat" is likely to reveal that the student did not write the paper.

Just bid on a lot of projects and you should get something eventually. However, given the low rates and the fact most writers here will tell you that the company is pretty poor should leave you questioning weather you really want to be doing many papers for them if any at all.

This is the key point for me. The market provides every form of solution at a range of prices which customers are free to select between. As such, what is important is that each company fully discloses its policy and sticks to it.

No in a word, most tutors would look down on these as sources and they certainly wouldn't be considered to have academic integrity.

You run a research business... technically honest without giving too much detail?

Harvard and Oxford seems to be the most common styles requested in the UK. Strictness of enforcement depends on the lecturer, most are happy if the style is near enough but I remember the odd pedantic lecturer who would obsess over every minute detail. As for the question of referencing as I go or going back the answer depends. If i'm stating something that I know I have a tried and tested source for that I've used many times before then I generally go back. If i'm referencing a statistic or something new then I add the citation as I go along so I don't lose it/forget it.

Not really, although you would probably expect to use a wider range of sources in a post grad paper. I find that for some subjects (business) the emphasis at say MBA level is also much more upon practical application than theory alone, although this depends on the customers program and school.

Be more generous with your use of separate paragraphs? To be honest I'm glad in the UK most the industry seems to work at a rate per 1,000 seems a lot easier although lecturers here also usually set their papers by the 1,000 rather than by the page.

This doesn't really make sense, writing is writing no mater what happens to the final product. andywoods57 is also right, many freelance writers undertake a wide range of work, CVs/resumes, web content etc spring to mind as just a few examples but essays do pay well and there is usually a high if seasonal demand for the product.

May I ask what you are doing at the moment? The reason I ask is that I started part time but then converted to full time after three years or so of knowing how much money I made and making some estimates about how much I could make by going full time. This is probably a good way to do it if you want to know what you can make. In answer to your question $40,000 (£26k) is not unreasonable at all although I'm not saying its easy either... There is also a lot to learn if your just getting started too like which papers you can write well very quickly and which are a pain in the backside. I do sleep but if a next day order comes up, I tend to get up in the small hours to finish it and then have a nap later in the day.

I have made a full time living out of this for several years now and in honesty I prefer it to other kinds of work. However, its not for every one, as with many forms of self employment there are no paid holidays, weekends or benefits. However if you can write on high demand subjects and do rush orders there is some good money to be made and you are your own boss which has its own merits.

On the whole they are not a good company to work for. I did some work for them last year and was always paid but they impose fines for pretty much no reason and there rates are pretty poor to start with. If you look back through the threads you will find others who have complained about late payments or not being paid at all. I would steer clear unless you are really desperate for the work, there are far better companies out there.

This seems silly, its the quality of what you reference and how you analyse it that counts not where you read it. As with yourself I've never had any problems getting journal articles/data online and I also have an extensive number of books in my collection these days. Nothing wrong with libraries of course but why make extra work when there perfectly good material right on screen.

Engineering is a very specialist subject and there aren't as many writers for this as other subjects. It could be difficult to source a writer at such short notice. Its not really a scam if you got your money back. Many scams would have took your money then either delivered a paper late after sourcing a writer or given you nothing at all...

Its hard to give an exact figure but looking at most the instructions I read I'd guess the majority of order come from ESLs.

Most lecturers are going to find it blindingly obvious when a student who can barely speak English one day (you only have to look at the instructions of some clients to know this) then turns in a native quality paper the next that it is not their work. However, since overseas students are a lucrative source of tuition fees compared to domestic students few questions are ever asked in many cases in UK institutions.

I guess its a lifestyle thing for most full time writers, there are no set hours for many and there is a lot of work which isn't solid writing. I pretty much have my computer on watching the boards and biding on work any time i'm not in bed or out on the bike. As for actually writing is can be anything from just a few hours a day in the slow season to a full eight hours or more in the peak season. However, as I say its a lifestyle thing rather than a job, days merge into one another unbroken by weekends or holidays and I write at what ever time I have the desire day or night makes no difference.

I'm not defending the company I know nothing about them but if you believe grade guarantees you'll believe anything... The fact that you got B's also suggests that you have hardly had the worlds worst experience compared to a lot of people who post here. I don't know that most Universities hand out a grade B for work quite as poor as you say. The company shouldn't make promises it can't keep but you haven't really had a raw deal in my opinion.

Its never a good idea to give your school details out (or necessary). However, you should still file a paypal dispute - If you didn't get your paper and didn't turn anything in as your own from the company then there is no case against you.

Keeping anonymous helps you a lot over the WWW. Not only the school information but also anything that you think maybe used for privacy invasion should be kept secret. Only those highly trustworthy should be shared any such information with.

Always take payment up front in future and learn from the lesson. In this case since the customer has not paid, you have every right to post the paper online which makes it pretty useless to anyone wanting to hand it in as their own. The threat of which *might* bring your customer back to the table to pay up.

It really depends on what you require, if you need a reference to a certain text then its good to provide this as the writer may not use the source otherwise. On the whole I like to get a reading list from customers as this gives me an indication of what has been covered on their course (this is often different lecturer to lecturer, school to school) but avoid orders which insist on my using a list of sources a mile long.

I guess its a case of balance, if you have specific requirements then by all means list them. Otherwise recommendations rather than ridged requirements are probably the way to go.

Nice adverts, hope your work was better than the appalling job the company did on its own website!

Try google scholar: scholar.google.co.uk

If you search through and click on the articles with PDFs you can get a lot of journal articles for free. However, many of the articles without a PDF link are just abstracts and require payment to obtain the full version. Worth a search though.

Hope that helps.

I've done work for them and been paid in the past but they're a cowboy outfit that's for sure. Much better companies out there to work for than AR....

The terms and conditions? I don't see why not or a link would do.

It depends on the exact terms and conditions you signed up to. Each agreement is different, if your buying from a company in many cases the copy write is transferred from writer to company but not from company to customer. If this is the case then the writer can not legally sell the essay more than once, some companies upload these essays to an essay bank after a period of time and some do not. To know exactly where you stand you would need to read the terms and conditions of your contract.

njones12 - Out of interest how many words/pages were you promised for the $99.61?

Yes there is a difference here but on the company side of the business I believe customers still pay upfront even though the writer is paid in arrears. There is no question of writer not being paid due to a customer refusal to pay after a paper has been produced in my experience.

Its entirely personal but generally I would think that less than £40/1000 which is the going rate at the companies starts too look bad, although it depends on a whole range of factors. No I do not provide basement quality - its the going rate or not at all.


That's entirely your call but the industry standard is pay up front and there are well documented cases of respected writers being burnt here so I'll stick to what works.

I high price won't guarantee quality but if you want a qualified writer from the UK or US you simply won't get these at bargain basement rates. You also have to consider that in many cases if a writer is working for a company they are probably only getting around 50% (varies from company to company) of what you pay.

The point on writers being payed after producing the work is absurd. Why would anyone take that kind of risk? If your worried on this point pay by card and start with small essays as FW recommended.

To be honest the "guarantees" should have been the warning sign, as usual completely unrealistic.

"You can order a First class paper from us and be 100% confident in your grade. We also write papers for 2:1 and 2:2 Standards. Whatever you request, you are guaranteed to get it." - Cock and bull only the marker can ever guarantee the grade of a paper.

"If it happens that our writing or editing service doesn't meet all your initial expectations, we will revise your paper for free as many times as necessary to finally satisfy you." Either a writer answers the original question or they don't, no one makes endless revisions for free if they have met the original spec.

There aren't usually any "hidden clauses" the terms and conditions which most customers evidently never bother to read usually completely discredit the guff "guarantees" made anywhere else on the page. Evidently the case on this site.

When it comes to guarantees less is sometimes more...

Its just a case of ordering what you need but not adding to the requirements unnecessarily. If you put the detail above in your order I would know what you wanted and then take the project on or not based upon that. In general the more complex an order the less attractive it becomes but if those are the requirements of your University then that's what you need to order.