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How to initiate the process of being an essay writer?



noted  8 | 2042 ☆☆☆☆☆  
Aug 29, 2022 | #41
Everyone deserves a chance to pursue a career that he believes he can excel in. He had every right to pursue this career if he chose to do so, regardless of what others may think about his writing skills, what questions they may have about his educational level, or even what country he actually comes from. None of these matter when a person wishes to pursue a career. Let's forget about the writing industry for a moment and look at how real world employment works in relation to foreign nationals. Having foreign workers in various professions worldwide is nothing new. They also had to start at the bottom and work their way up. They got paid commensurate to their skillset. They were hired based on the need of the company for people of his skills. He was imported to the new country to meet that need. An academic writer is similar to those foreign workers. They have to prove themselves worthy of the job that they are doing, which allows them to charge the rights they deserve to be paid. He can be considered a foreign worker who works for an international company if he opts to work for an academic company at the start of his career. Then, just like other foreign workers, he can move on to other career opportunities as his skills develop. Does he need to be transpared and tell the student he is not a native English speaker? Transparency is best. The student should interview him and make sure he is fit for the task before hiring him anyway.
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FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Sep 06, 2022 | #42
He had every right to pursue this career ... regardless of what others may think about his writing skills ... or ... what country he actually comes from. None of these matter when a person wishes to pursue a career.

I don't think anybody here was ever denying his right to pursue whatever career he chose; and nothing I said (especially) had anything to do with his country of origin. (I've had a very mutually-respectful professional friendship with two different ESL writers here, both of whom have left testimonials for me in various threads on this forum over the years, despite the fact that we've always been direct competitors.) However, I do think it's relevant if someone who's actually been reasonably successful doing this kind of work for about as much as you could possibly consider it a career, full-time for more than 15 years says, in good faith, that he obviously doesn't have the requisite skill set for it. Someone who makes multiple elementary mistakes of the kind that he made in his very short informal forum posts wouldn't even be able to compose a coherent resume or cover letter for himself in English, let alone write them for someone else for money. It doesn't matter to me what the reason is for his English Language writing skill level; but in his case, it's attributable to the fact that English isn't his first language and he just can't write in English sufficiently well to write academic projects for native English speakers. He still has the right to try to do whatever he wants, obviously.

It's also possible that he could write substantively good projects in some academic areas; but I have no idea how smart he is or how much he knows or how well he finds and digests academic literature to write projects in related academic fields. If he wrote good academic projects for himself in his native language, he could probably have done the same in English for anybody whose own English skills were roughly similar to his, which would mean that he might have been realistic to aspire to make a career out of academic writing for ESL customers when he started this thread. It would be interesting to know what happened to him since he posted this in 2011.




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