SENIOR writer - what does it mean?

I've been approached by writers who use "SENIOR WRITER" as their title or in their resumes.

What does SENIOR it mean? Is it about writer's age or talent? Is using a senior writer better than using a regular (young? :?) writer. Thanks.

In the academic writing and research world it (usually) means that the writer is trying to hide some essential information about him/herself and/or their real location ;).

Thank you. I have a similar experience. Email messages from these writers didn't sound very professional and there were some spelling mistakes too!

Some companies have structures for internal advancement. New writers might have to go through a probationary period before being allowed very much responsibility. As writers demonstrate competence through their performance, they are given access to higher-value orders and sometimes more lucrative compensation. Being a "senior writer" probably indicates that they have spent enough time with a company to have advanced a bit.

A senior writer is simply someone who has completed the required number of orders at an academic outsourcing companies to climb one rung of the writer "promotion" ladder. It really doesn't mean anything to the people outside of the company. It isn't even important. It is an internal title that is used by the company to consider what types of orders the writer will be given access to, whether or not he will be granted a "requested writer" status, and if he is qualified for what the company believes to be a "higher" cost per page rate on certain orders. If someone applies for a job using that title, it isn't really something that should make a difference in the possible consideration of the writer for hiring. For all intents and purposes, a "senior" writer is nothing more than a regular writer who has some benefits within his attached academic outsourcing company. It isn't an impressive title and even within the company, the writers, who mingle with one another in some form of supervised group communication, don't give any weight to it. They don't address each other differently due to titles. They still use their given writer i.d. number or profile. So the title is really useless in my opinion. You can't even use it to impress your relatives and friends because the title doesn't make any sense to them.

A Senior Writer is a long time writing slave of an academic writing company.

He is the workhorse who keeps the company going even as he is paid mere crumbs for his hard work.

Writers at that level have been attached to the same company for at least 2 years and have been given some major responsibilities by the company, such as leading a writing pool, as part of his "promotion". It isn't really a promotion though. The higher your ranking gets, the less you get paid at some academic writing companies.

Based on the experience of my friends who have reached the Senior writing level, their cost per page goes down as their ranking goes up. The only reason they think they are getting paid more is because the work becomes more difficult and has an increased number of pages to complete. So you think that $1 per page is actually a large amount when it actually isn't. It's just the volume of work that you have to do that made it seem that way.

So a Senior writer, in my opinion, is a company attached writer who is a sucker for punishment. There may be other, less subjective, definitions though :)

Basically, true. In my experience, a senior writer might get his/her pick of the projects they want/won't want, but if the pay doesn't increase with the work volume there's no real benefit.

A Senior writer is someone whom the company can rely on to take the orders nobody else wants. He doesn't mind waking up in the middle of the night to attend to screaming clients, and he never says no to an order assignment. Yep, the comments are right, a Senior Writer is nothing but the punching bag of the company. He takes the abuse because the company keeps him employed with a regular supply of "request" orders, which may or may not come his actual regular clients. The Senior Writer should not be envied because he is the one who gets unfairly fined the most because he gets paid the most too.

A senior writer could also be one of the owners of the company. He is given this title as a part of his supervisory position. It does not mean that he knows how to write or that he writes well. It just means that he has a stake in the company and probably knows how to discern a well written paper from a shabby one. Yes, it also could mean a long time associate writer of the company. However, not all writers can stay that long as a company to earn that title these days.

This all complete nonsense. In any kind of traditional employment situation, the designation "Senior" (anything) denotes either more time (i.e. seniority) on the job or is an earned title based on performance, or some combination of both. Either way, it's almost always associated with higher pay, more perks, greater flexibility and autonomy (not less), and various other advantages, not wuith reduced flexibility or increased abuse of any kind.

In non-traditional industries, such as this one, it likely means much less, but would still only be associated withincreased appreciation by the company, not less appreciation and/or (especially) any kind of abuse or disregard, as announced by the above post. Most likely, it means priority access to the most desirable projects (not decreased flexibility to decline undesirable projects), and would only inspire greater loyalty, on the part of the company, as it relates to having the writer's back against inappropriate, obnoxious, and unreasonable hyper-demanding clients, and not a decrease in the company's regard for, loyalty to, or protection of the writer from unfair demands. The people who run any company would really have to be fools to treat senior employees worse than junior employees, because the former have the most experience, do the best work, and represent greater productivity and value to the company than their junior counterparts.