Amending works after a certain period of time.

Have you done the rework again and again even after amendment period is over and your fees are already deducted? I'm asking because I've encountered a situation when the student just keep asking for more revisions even though the original paper specifications have been met. The support people have nothing to say and just forward me the requests and at this point I don't know what to do; should I continue revising (some of this includes adding new stuff) or just give up?

The reason you keep finding yourself in situations like these is because the only companies that will hire you to write academic papers in English are inherently cheats and scams. Your English is not of a high enough quality to make you an asset to legitimate companies.

If you want to find better work as a writer in English, you will need to improve your command of the language. Otherwise, you will continue working for a-holes who will continue to find new and innovative ways to cheat you out of your money, just as they (and you) are cheating customers out of theirs.

Tell us Pheelyks,
How do you propose one go about strengthening their writing skills? Instead of pointing out the glaringly obvious, maybe you could offer something of substance...

It clearly isn't glaringly obvious to the people making the mistakes, otherwise they wouldn't be making them.

As for advice, I would say enroll in an English class. Did you really need me to tell you that?

Yep. That happened to me all the time when I was still actively working in the academic writing field as a member of the Academia Research writers pool. We all seemed to suffer the same fate.

Needing to revise the essay after the revision deadline had already expired based upon "QAD requirements". Which, I later learned, was their way of saying "We want to resell this paper. If you do not comply then, remember the penalty we did not charge you on this paper when you first submitted it ?

We will charge you that penalty and then some now." It sucks but that is how life at that company went on.

You had to be willing to revise the paper without any extra payment because doing so would be detrimental to the current income that you have in the "bank". I had situations were the company was demanding revisions for papers I had written 6 months, one or two years before.

No amount of explaining to them that I did not consider the "QAD request" a valid revision request unless I was paid for it convinced them to just let the old paper be.

I paid stiff penalties for trying to fight the system but that's another story.

No. There is no need for you to continue revising the paper after the revision period has expired. Most specially if the student is asking you to add more and more information to the paper. That no longer counts as a revision, but can be considered a new paper instead. Which means that as the writer, you have the right to ask the company to seek extra pay from the client for the additional information. That normally stops the abusive client immediately from requesting any extra revision work or additional information inclusion. I have had similar experiences with some clients and I always ask the writer how much extra he would like to be paid for the additional information that needs to be added then I send the extra payment request to the client. If he pays, then the writer goes ahead with the changes, if not, the client is out of luck.

This is true. I've worked with clients who have asked for revisions that no longer appeared to be revisions. There was one that was literally fuming with anger because I would not revise a 21-page essay simply because he kept asking for revisions that were utterly out of the boundaries of the work contract that we had. Additional pay, in these cases, would be necessary.

Generally, the appropriateness of unpaid revision requests relates much more to the specs than to the timing of the request. If the original specs weren't fully met, time really isn't the issue; and if the original specs were fully met, no unpaid revision request is ever appropriate, regardless of how quickly it's requested.

It depends on the request and just how much time has passed. Unless it's been a long time, I am generally happy to make reasonable changes for my clients. Now whether those changes are free or not depends on what is being asked. If I make a mistake, I will definitely make the correction at no cost. If a client comes back a week later and says, for example, they want me to add a few paragraphs or a page or two, I will charge for my time. It really all depends on the individual situation and, yes, how much time has passed. A client shouldn't wait weeks or months to request revisions. I do have time limits on how long they have, which is generally 2-3 days after the project is complete. It's the client's responsibility to review the completed project when received and to notify me in a reasonable amount of time should they need revisions. I do try to be detail oriented to keep revision requests at a minimum. I've been successful in this regard, but we're all human and I make mistakes like everyone else. ;)

This seems more like a reasonable approach to the situation. Personally, as a writer, I can never justify sites that would accommodate to unlimited revisions. In my experience, websites that offer these types of services can often by sketchy - to say the least. There's also no reason for them to justify these things, especially because people wouldn't need the revisions if the quality is substantive already in the first place.

I am lucky that when I first started out in the business, I was attached to a company that fairly treated its writers. The people who ran the company were conscious of the difference between a "revision" and a "rewrite". They would accept a revision request only twice from a client before letting me know that the client was entering "rewrite" territory and they would be refusing any more revision requests without additional writer's fees. Normally, they did this after the 2nd "revision" request from a client. Which I think is only fair as by the 3rd revision, more than half the paper would already be rewritten.