Is Master's degree necessary to be an academic writer?

Some websites want their writer to be a Master's degree holder. What if the applicant is a good writer but only has a bachelor's degree.......will his application be accepted?

A. Just because a company says that all of its writers have advanced degrees on the customer side of its website doesn't necessarily mean that it's true. I'm sure many of them that may say that about their writers actually employ more writers without any advanced degrees than writers with advanced degrees, including companies that are generally legitimate as far as their product and customer relations are concerned.

B. Having an advanced academic degree doesn't necessarily mean someone is a great writer and not having an advanced degree doesn't necessarily mean that someone isn't. I didn't learn how to write in law school at all; I got into and through law school (and found it to be relatively easy) partly because I was already a very good writer. You can certainly improve your writing in school if you work at it (or if you're forced to work at it), but most people who earn a living by writing well have always just been relatively good writers at every level from the time they were in grade school.

C. Practically every one of my coworkers in federal government had at least one advanced degree, but the reason that the agency hired a dedicated Writer/Editor for every one of its regional offices in the first place was that they wanted to improve the quality of the writing coming out of the agency. I believe all 7 of us also had advanced degrees, but so did most of the other 400+ candidates for each of those positions, so that's not the reason we got hired as writers or the reason the other candidates didn't. According to what I was told at the time, the most important factor was our performance on the writing test they gave us. In my experience, writing companies also care much more about how good your work is once you're hired than they do about what degrees you have.

Bachelor's degree should be good enough for most example research orders. But then how would you write a dissertation if you haven't written one yet? It involves much more than error-free grammar to properly plan, research, and write a dissertation.

Master's degree is not needed, but a college degree is a must if you want to work professionally in the academic research field. Refer to an educational essay posted below.

Is a College Education Really Needed?

A college education is worth the effort and the cost. The cost of college is high and good jobs are scarce but applicants without a college education will have difficulty obtaining a good job. When the costs are compared against the benefits, college is the clear winner. By going to college, the student will receive the lifelong benefits of higher earnings and better job opportunities. Even though there are people who complain the cost of college is too high and not work the cost, the truth is college is necessary for obtaining the skill necessary to obtain a good job.

College is an extension of the education received by the student in high school. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, people who graduate with bachelor's degrees will earn nearly twice as much as the person who ends their education at the high school level or with a G.E.D. The problem is a high school education is not adequate enough for many employers. Even with the high expense of college, the economic benefits will far outweigh the cost. Within a few years, a college student can pay of their debt while enjoying a higher salary due to their efforts.

College increases the probability, the college graduate will land a good job and have superior earning power. When a citizen is looking for a job, there will be immense competition for jobs with good salaries and career opportunities. Many employers will be seeking applicants with a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Without a college degree, there will be many jobs not available to the high school graduate. Even though there are many success stories involving people who only earned a high school degree, these instances are rare.

College provides additional skills and knowledge to the college student which can be applied in the work setting. The college student is more marketable in the job market because of this additional knowledge. Some people believe college is not worth the hassle or the expense. This is not true. Employers seek employees who were willing to expend the time and the money on earning a higher education degree. Its show s employers, the applicant is capable of setting and accomplishing difficult goals.

Once the college graduate obtains a job, they have better opportunities for career growth due to their education. College assists the student in developing the critical thinking and problem solving skills sought after by employers. Even though college can be expensive, the increased earning power of the college graduate can be outweighed by the increase in salary. According to research by Baum et al., a worker with a college degree made an average of $17,500 more annually than their peers with just a high school degree. The college graduate is also less likely to be unemployed over the high school graduate.

Even though there are people who complain the cost of college is too high and not worth the price, the truth is college is necessary for obtaining the skills necessary to obtain a good job. College is not a gamble but a solid path to future success. The additional earning power of the college student can be used to pay off any college debt. The college graduate will enjoy the economic benefits provided by their education and the job opportunities. People in the job market without a college education will struggle to obtain the same quality of jobs as the college graduate. College is worth the effort and the cost.

There are some academic outsourcing companies that claim to require a masters degree for their writers in the guise of "specializing" in masters degree and PhD papers. However, I believe that this is an exaggeration on the part of the company because their company cannot exist in such a narrow niche market. Most of these companies make their money from high school and college students who do not need specialized writers doing their work. The companies that claim to require such a high standard of education for their writers are hiding a secret. Maybe they are a scam company that doesn't really complete the work that is ordered, hence their lack of need for a working roster of writers who can write at all levels of academic learning. Or maybe, and I this something I heard from a friend who also works in the business, this person is an independent writer who is looking for other independent writers to whom he can pass off higher writing level work to. For most writing companies, the most they require is a complete college education. A masters degree is optional.

Not all academic writers need to have a masters degree simply because there are more than enough undergraduate students who also require writing services of the non-specialized kind. The only reason a company would have to hire MS and PhD writers would be if their company specializes in post study research alone. Then the company would definitely require the writer to have an advanced degree under his belt as part of the requirement for hiring a person as a writer.

Provided one has an undergraduate degree from a reputable university in the US/UK/Canada, there shouldn't be a problem with applying for a job and (eventually) getting hired by these companies. They will definitely not hire non-graduates or high school graduates because those people lack the proper skills to be able to write or do research at a college level. A writer should therefore, make sure that he at least meets the minimum requirements to become a company writer before he even considers applying for a job at the company.

The vast majority of PhD candidates haven't ever written a dissertation yet, themselves. Usually, that's something that they do only once in their lives, and they follow the guidance of their institutions and their advisors throughout the process. Some of us who have been professional academic writers have been writing dissertations since our clients who are current PhD candidates were in grade school. We don't possess the same depth of substantive knowledge of their entire field, but we know how to find, read, and understand the appropriate source material, and how to follow institutional guidelines and direction from advisors. More often than not, these clients also provide much of the research material for us, which can be very helpful. Obviously, that still doesn't necessarily mean that we can handle every PhD dissertation or dissertations in every field; but we (are supposed to) know our limitations and we might very well have to err on the safe side by passing on half the dissertations we're offered, whereas we can confidently accept more than 95% of all undergraduate projects and roughly 70% of the master's theses we're offered.

It depends on the company, but the majority will accept an excellent writer with less than a Masters. Having a Masters or PhD does not make one a great writer. I've seen writers with a PhD who were horrible writers, and I've seen writers with only an Associates knock a paper out of the ballpark. It depends on talent, quality, and how badly you want to write. From a customer's perspective, though, it's hard to convince a Masters student that a writer with a Bachelors can and will write Masters or PhD level papers. Still, it happens ALL the time.

I don't think that the level of education truly affects the quality of one's work. However, I do think that the program that a writer came from is one that can be accounted for. Obviously, if a writer comes from a research-intensive program, then there is a higher probability that that writer is more capable of providing output because they're academically trained to produce said output. However, of course, this is not necessarily a flawless case: there are still writers who are still not skillful despite being in said programs.

Again, it all depends on the writer.

Normally, a college graduate will find that he is is more than capable of working as an academic writer. His academic experience would be more than enough of a professional experience for a writer to be able to complete the writing requirements of a regular student. The regular income comes from the undergraduate and high school papers anyway. The masters and higher level writing papers are not as common. Normally because the students at that level often opt to write the paper themselves since the topic is normally related to their actual work requirements. So, I don't believe that a masters degree should be a standard requirement for an academic writer. If an academic writer happens to have a masters degree then that would be fantastic for his job requirement. If not, then it isn't a big deal.

I've explained many times that a good, highly-experienced writer doesn't necessarily need a master's degree or a doctorate (or a degree of any kind in any specific area) to produce a high-quality thesis or dissertation. On the other hand, I would disagree, and quite vehemently, that most college graduates are "more than capable of working as an academic writer" (unless you mean fully capable of working as a very bad academic writer). Almost every adult I know is a college graduate, but almost none of them can write well enough to do this for a living; and I'm only referring to how well they write, let alone how well they can research a topic. In my opinion, as someone who has done this for a living for roughly 20 years, most college graduates are definitely not capable of writing even one excellent 10-page academic essay in a week, let alone one roughly every day, day after day.