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If you grow up to be a professional writer, everything you write will first go through an editor before being published. This is because the process of writing is really a process of re-writing —of rethinking and reexamining your work, usually with the help of someone else. So what does this mean for your student writing? And in particular, what does it mean for very important, but nonprofessional writing like your college essay? Should you ask your parents to look at your essay? Pay for an essay service?

If you are wondering what kind of help you can, and should, get with your personal statement, you've come to the right place! In this article, I'll talk about what kind of writing help is useful, ethical, and even expected for your college admission essay . I'll also point out who would make a good editor, what the differences between editing and proofreading are, what to expect from a good editor, and how to spot and stay away from a bad one.

Table of Contents

What Kind of Help for Your Essay Can You Get?

What's Good Editing?

What should an editor do for you, what kind of editing should you avoid, proofreading, what's good proofreading, what kind of proofreading should you avoid.

What Do Colleges Think Of You Getting Help With Your Essay?

Who Can/Should Help You?

Advice for editors.

Should You Pay Money For Essay Editing?

The Bottom Line

What's next, what kind of help with your essay can you get.

Rather than talking in general terms about "help," let's first clarify the two different ways that someone else can improve your writing . There is editing, which is the more intensive kind of assistance that you can use throughout the whole process. And then there's proofreading, which is the last step of really polishing your final product.

Let me go into some more detail about editing and proofreading, and then explain how good editors and proofreaders can help you."

Editing is helping the author (in this case, you) go from a rough draft to a finished work . Editing is the process of asking questions about what you're saying, how you're saying it, and how you're organizing your ideas. But not all editing is good editing . In fact, it's very easy for an editor to cross the line from supportive to overbearing and over-involved.

Ability to clarify assignments. A good editor is usually a good writer, and certainly has to be a good reader. For example, in this case, a good editor should make sure you understand the actual essay prompt you're supposed to be answering.

Open-endedness. Good editing is all about asking questions about your ideas and work, but without providing answers. It's about letting you stick to your story and message, and doesn't alter your point of view.

Think of an editor as a great travel guide. It can show you the many different places your trip could take you. It should explain any parts of the trip that could derail your trip or confuse the traveler. But it never dictates your path, never forces you to go somewhere you don't want to go, and never ignores your interests so that the trip no longer seems like it's your own. So what should good editors do?

Help Brainstorm Topics

Sometimes it's easier to bounce thoughts off of someone else. This doesn't mean that your editor gets to come up with ideas, but they can certainly respond to the various topic options you've come up with. This way, you're less likely to write about the most boring of your ideas, or to write about something that isn't actually important to you.

If you're wondering how to come up with options for your editor to consider, check out our guide to brainstorming topics for your college essay .

Help Revise Your Drafts

Here, your editor can't upset the delicate balance of not intervening too much or too little. It's tricky, but a great way to think about it is to remember: editing is about asking questions, not giving answers .

Revision questions should point out:

• Places where more detail or more description would help the reader connect with your essay
• Places where structure and logic don't flow, losing the reader's attention
• Places where there aren't transitions between paragraphs, confusing the reader
• Moments where your narrative or the arguments you're making are unclear

But pointing to potential problems is not the same as actually rewriting—editors let authors fix the problems themselves.

Bad editing is usually very heavy-handed editing. Instead of helping you find your best voice and ideas, a bad editor changes your writing into their own vision.

You may be dealing with a bad editor if they:

• Add material (examples, descriptions) that doesn't come from you
• Use a thesaurus to make your college essay sound "more mature"
• Add meaning or insight to the essay that doesn't come from you
• Tell you what to say and how to say it
• Write sentences, phrases, and paragraphs for you
• Change your voice in the essay so it no longer sounds like it was written by a teenager

Colleges can tell the difference between a 17-year-old's writing and a 50-year-old's writing. Not only that, they have access to your SAT or ACT Writing section, so they can compare your essay to something else you wrote. Writing that's a little more polished is great and expected. But a totally different voice and style will raise questions.

Where's the Line Between Helpful Editing and Unethical Over-Editing?

Sometimes it's hard to tell whether your college essay editor is doing the right thing. Here are some guidelines for staying on the ethical side of the line.

• An editor should say that the opening paragraph is kind of boring, and explain what exactly is making it drag. But it's overstepping for an editor to tell you exactly how to change it.
• An editor should point out where your prose is unclear or vague. But it's completely inappropriate for the editor to rewrite that section of your essay.
• An editor should let you know that a section is light on detail or description. But giving you similes and metaphors to beef up that description is a no-go.

Proofreading (also called copy-editing) is checking for errors in the last draft of a written work. It happens at the end of the process and is meant as the final polishing touch. Proofreading is meticulous and detail-oriented, focusing on small corrections. It sands off all the surface rough spots that could alienate the reader.

Because proofreading is usually concerned with making fixes on the word or sentence level, this is the only process where someone else can actually add to or take away things from your essay . This is because what they are adding or taking away tends to be one or two misplaced letters.

Laser focus. Proofreading is all about the tiny details, so the ability to really concentrate on finding small slip-ups is a must.

Excellent grammar and spelling skills. Proofreaders need to dot every "i" and cross every "t." Good proofreaders should correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. They should put foreign words in italics and surround quotations with quotation marks. They should check that you used the correct college's name, and that you adhered to any formatting requirements (name and date at the top of the page, uniform font and size, uniform spacing).

Limited interference. A proofreader needs to make sure that you followed any word limits. But if cuts need to be made to shorten the essay, that's your job and not the proofreader's.

A bad proofreader either tries to turn into an editor, or just lacks the skills and knowledge necessary to do the job.

Some signs that you're working with a bad proofreader are:

• If they suggest making major changes to the final draft of your essay. Proofreading happens when editing is already finished.
• If they aren't particularly good at spelling, or don't know grammar, or aren't detail-oriented enough to find someone else's small mistakes.
• If they start swapping out your words for fancier-sounding synonyms, or changing the voice and sound of your essay in other ways. A proofreader is there to check for errors, not to take the 17-year-old out of your writing.

What Do Colleges Think of Your Getting Help With Your Essay?

Admissions officers agree: light editing and proofreading are good—even required ! But they also want to make sure you're the one doing the work on your essay. They want essays with stories, voice, and themes that come from you. They want to see work that reflects your actual writing ability, and that focuses on what you find important.

On the Importance of Editing

Get feedback. Have a fresh pair of eyes give you some feedback. Don't allow someone else to rewrite your essay, but do take advantage of others' edits and opinions when they seem helpful. ( Bates College )

Read your essay aloud to someone. Reading the essay out loud offers a chance to hear how your essay sounds outside your head. This exercise reveals flaws in the essay's flow, highlights grammatical errors and helps you ensure that you are communicating the exact message you intended. ( Dickinson College )

On the Value of Proofreading

Share your essays with at least one or two people who know you well—such as a parent, teacher, counselor, or friend—and ask for feedback. Remember that you ultimately have control over your essays, and your essays should retain your own voice, but others may be able to catch mistakes that you missed and help suggest areas to cut if you are over the word limit. ( Yale University )

Proofread and then ask someone else to proofread for you. Although we want substance, we also want to be able to see that you can write a paper for our professors and avoid careless mistakes that would drive them crazy. ( Oberlin College )

On Watching Out for Too Much Outside Influence

Limit the number of people who review your essay. Too much input usually means your voice is lost in the writing style. ( Carleton College )

Ask for input (but not too much). Your parents, friends, guidance counselors, coaches, and teachers are great people to bounce ideas off of for your essay. They know how unique and spectacular you are, and they can help you decide how to articulate it. Keep in mind, however, that a 45-year-old lawyer writes quite differently from an 18-year-old student, so if your dad ends up writing the bulk of your essay, we're probably going to notice. ( Vanderbilt University )

Now let's talk about some potential people to approach for your college essay editing and proofreading needs. It's best to start close to home and slowly expand outward. Not only are your family and friends more invested in your success than strangers, but they also have a better handle on your interests and personality. This knowledge is key for judging whether your essay is expressing your true self.

Parents or Close Relatives

Your family may be full of potentially excellent editors! Parents are deeply committed to your well-being, and family members know you and your life well enough to offer details or incidents that can be included in your essay. On the other hand, the rewriting process necessarily involves criticism, which is sometimes hard to hear from someone very close to you.

A parent or close family member is a great choice for an editor if you can answer "yes" to the following questions. Is your parent or close relative a good writer or reader? Do you have a relationship where editing your essay won't create conflict? Are you able to constructively listen to criticism and suggestion from the parent?

One suggestion for defusing face-to-face discussions is to try working on the essay over email. Send your parent a draft, have them write you back some comments, and then you can pick which of their suggestions you want to use and which to discard.

Teachers or Tutors

A humanities teacher that you have a good relationship with is a great choice. I am purposefully saying humanities, and not just English, because teachers of Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and any other classes where you do a lot of writing, are all used to reviewing student work.

Moreover, any teacher or tutor that has been working with you for some time, knows you very well and can vet the essay to make sure it "sounds like you."

If your teacher or tutor has some experience with what college essays are supposed to be like, ask them to be your editor. If not, then ask whether they have time to proofread your final draft.

Guidance or College Counselor at Your School

The best thing about asking your counselor to edit your work is that this is their job. This means that they have a very good sense of what colleges are looking for in an application essay.

At the same time, school counselors tend to have relationships with admissions officers in many colleges, which again gives them insight into what works and which college is focused on what aspect of the application.

Unfortunately, in many schools the guidance counselor tends to be way overextended. If your ratio is 300 students to 1 college counselor, you're unlikely to get that person's undivided attention and focus. It is still useful to ask them for general advice about your potential topics, but don't expect them to be able to stay with your essay from first draft to final version.

Friends, Siblings, or Classmates

Although they most likely don't have much experience with what colleges are hoping to see, your peers are excellent sources for checking that your essay is you .

Friends and siblings are perfect for the read-aloud edit. Read your essay to them so they can listen for words and phrases that are stilted, pompous, or phrases that just don't sound like you.

You can even trade essays and give helpful advice on each other's work.

If your editor hasn't worked with college admissions essays very much, no worries! Any astute and attentive reader can still greatly help with your process. But, as in all things, beginners do better with some preparation.

First, your editor should read our advice about how to write a college essay introduction , how to spot and fix a bad college essay , and get a sense of what other students have written by going through some admissions essays that worked .

Then, as they read your essay, they can work through the following series of questions that will help them to guide you.

Introduction Questions

• Is the first sentence a killer opening line? Why or why not?
• Does the introduction hook the reader? Does it have a colorful, detailed, and interesting narrative? Or does it propose a compelling or surprising idea?
• Can you feel the author's voice in the introduction, or is the tone dry, dull, or overly formal? Show the places where the voice comes through.

Essay Body Questions

• Does the essay have a through-line? Is it built around a central argument, thought, idea, or focus? Can you put this idea into your own words?
• How is the essay organized? By logical progression? Chronologically? Do you feel order when you read it, or are there moments where you are confused or lose the thread of the essay?
• Does the essay have both narratives about the author's life and explanations and insight into what these stories reveal about the author's character, personality, goals, or dreams? If not, which is missing?
• Does the essay flow? Are there smooth transitions/clever links between paragraphs? Between the narrative and moments of insight?

Reader Response Questions

• Does the writer's personality come through? Do we know what the speaker cares about? Do we get a sense of "who he or she is"?
• Where did you feel most connected to the essay? Which parts of the essay gave you a "you are there" sensation by invoking your senses? What moments could you picture in your head well?
• Where are the details and examples vague and not specific enough?
• Did you get an "a-ha!" feeling anywhere in the essay? Is there a moment of insight that connected all the dots for you? Is there a good reveal or "twist" anywhere in the essay?
• What are the strengths of this essay? What needs the most improvement?

Should You Pay Money for Essay Editing?

One alternative to asking someone you know to help you with your college essay is the paid editor route. There are two different ways to pay for essay help: a private essay coach or a less personal editing service , like the many proliferating on the internet.

My advice is to think of these options as a last resort rather than your go-to first choice. I'll first go through the reasons why. Then, if you do decide to go with a paid editor, I'll help you decide between a coach and a service.

When to Consider a Paid Editor

In general, I think hiring someone to work on your essay makes a lot of sense if none of the people I discussed above are a possibility for you.

If you can't ask your parents. For example, if your parents aren't good writers, or if English isn't their first language. Or if you think getting your parents to help is going create unnecessary extra conflict in your relationship with them (applying to college is stressful as it is!)

If you can't ask your teacher or tutor. Maybe you don't have a trusted teacher or tutor that has time to look over your essay with focus. Or, for instance, your favorite humanities teacher has very limited experience with college essays and so won't know what admissions officers want to see.

If you can't ask your guidance counselor. This could be because your guidance counselor is way overwhelmed with other students.

If you can't share your essay with those who know you. It might be that your essay is on a very personal topic that you're unwilling to share with parents, teachers, or peers. Just make sure it doesn't fall into one of the bad-idea topics in our article on bad college essays .

If the cost isn't a consideration. Many of these services are quite expensive, and private coaches even more so. If you have finite resources, I'd say that hiring an SAT or ACT tutor (whether it's PrepScholar or someone else) is better way to spend your money . This is because there's no guarantee that a slightly better essay will sufficiently elevate the rest of your application, but a significantly higher SAT score will definitely raise your applicant profile much more.

Should You Hire an Essay Coach?

On the plus side, essay coaches have read dozens or even hundreds of college essays, so they have experience with the format. Also, because you'll be working closely with a specific person, it's more personal than sending your essay to a service, which will know even less about you.

But, on the minus side, you'll still be bouncing ideas off of someone who doesn't know that much about you . In general, if you can adequately get the help from someone you know, there is no advantage to paying someone to help you.

If you do decide to hire a coach, ask your school counselor, or older students that have used the service for recommendations. If you can't afford the coach's fees, ask whether they can work on a sliding scale —many do. And finally, beware those who guarantee admission to your school of choice—essay coaches don't have any special magic that can back up those promises.

Should You Send Your Essay to a Service?

On the plus side, essay editing services provide a similar product to essay coaches, and they cost significantly less . If you have some assurance that you'll be working with a good editor, the lack of face-to-face interaction won't prevent great results.

On the minus side, however, it can be difficult to gauge the quality of the service before working with them . If they are churning through many application essays without getting to know the students they are helping, you could end up with an over-edited essay that sounds just like everyone else's. In the worst case scenario, an unscrupulous service could send you back a plagiarized essay.

Getting recommendations from friends or a school counselor for reputable services is key to avoiding heavy-handed editing that writes essays for you or does too much to change your essay. Including a badly-edited essay like this in your application could cause problems if there are inconsistencies. For example, in interviews it might be clear you didn't write the essay, or the skill of the essay might not be reflected in your schoolwork and test scores.

Should You Buy an Essay Written by Someone Else?

Let me elaborate. There are super sketchy places on the internet where you can simply buy a pre-written essay. Don't do this!

For one thing, you'll be lying on an official, signed document. All college applications make you sign a statement saying something like this:

I certify that all information submitted in the admission process—including the application, the personal essay, any supplements, and any other supporting materials—is my own work, factually true, and honestly presented... I understand that I may be subject to a range of possible disciplinary actions, including admission revocation, expulsion, or revocation of course credit, grades, and degree, should the information I have certified be false. (From the Common Application )

For another thing, if your academic record doesn't match the essay's quality, the admissions officer will start thinking your whole application is riddled with lies.

Admission officers have full access to your writing portion of the SAT or ACT so that they can compare work that was done in proctored conditions with that done at home. They can tell if these were written by different people. Not only that, but there are now a number of search engines that faculty and admission officers can use to see if an essay contains strings of words that have appeared in other essays—you have no guarantee that the essay you bought wasn't also bought by 50 other students.

• You should get college essay help with both editing and proofreading
• A good editor will ask questions about your idea, logic, and structure, and will point out places where clarity is needed
• A good editor will absolutely not answer these questions, give you their own ideas, or write the essay or parts of the essay for you
• A good proofreader will find typos and check your formatting
• All of them agree that getting light editing and proofreading is necessary
• Parents, teachers, guidance or college counselor, and peers or siblings
• If you can't ask any of those, you can pay for college essay help, but watch out for services or coaches who over-edit you work
• Don't buy a pre-written essay! Colleges can tell, and it'll make your whole application sound false.

Ready to start working on your essay? Check out our explanation of the point of the personal essay and the role it plays on your applications and then explore our step-by-step guide to writing a great college essay .

Using the Common Application for your college applications? We have an excellent guide to the Common App essay prompts and useful advice on how to pick the Common App prompt that's right for you . Wondering how other people tackled these prompts? Then work through our roundup of over 130 real college essay examples published by colleges .

Stressed about whether to take the SAT again before submitting your application? Let us help you decide how many times to take this test . If you choose to go for it, we have the ultimate guide to studying for the SAT to give you the ins and outs of the best ways to study.

Anna scored in the 99th percentile on her SATs in high school, and went on to major in English at Princeton and to get her doctorate in English Literature at Columbia. She is passionate about improving student access to higher education.

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5 Best Websites Where I Can Pay Someone to Write My Essay

Every day the number of requests from students on the Internet is growing.

The search words “pay someone to write my paper” help people find help with their assignments .

Where there is demand, there is always supply.

As students’ need for assistance with papers grows, more and more sites with authors began popping up in Google searches.

It has become increasingly harder to decide who can be trusted with an essay and whether their services are safe.

These are the top 5 sites where you can hire someone to write an essay:

1. EssayShark.com

Topping our list is one of the best writing services you can use to pay someone to write your essay.

Are you looking for a service that has been helping students complete their academic work for a long time? Want to get personalized help?

This website has it all.

We decided to put EssayShark at the top of the list because its reputation precedes it.

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We analyzed the site in detail and found that it, without question, fulfilled the requirements of the search query – “pay someone to write my essay.”

Each paragraph you “write” through this service reveals the company’s attention to detail.

Carefully study what we have written so that you can make a decision and entrust your task to professional authors.

On its website, the company details exactly how they hire writers. To hire someone to write an essay, you need to be confident in the person with whom you are entrusting your important assignments.

Before EssayShark writers collaborate with clients, the service tests their skills and education, making sure that their authors can cope with both simple essays and complex dissertations.

Ease of Collaboration

To pay for an essay on this site, you can visit any of their web pages, and on the right, you will see a form for registering an order.

Modern people value their time and aren’t interested in wasting it trying to figure out how to navigate a company’s website.

The site’s interface is straightforward and transparent, making it even more attractive for students.

Price Policy

Can I pay someone to write my essay cheaply? The cost of the assistance is essential. If the price is too low, it’s alarming, if too high, it repels customers.

On this site, the price is justified since the client chooses the author and the price they offer at the auction. The price for one page starts from $13.40 and depends on the terms and volume of work.

Before you pay someone to write your essay, it is essential to be sure that their payment system is safe.

EssayShark assures its users that it only uses well-known payment systems.

Also, the client can use the site’s free plagiarism checker and have their authors make revisions as their task is being completed.

If you choose this service, you will receive an original text with no worries about losing your anonymity.

The pay someone to do my essay desire is one that should be executed with care as your security and grades depend on it.

2. WriteMyEssayOnline.com

You might wonder why WriteMyEssayOnline made it onto our list of places to pay for paper writing.

First, the opinion of customers who visited and collaborated with different sites was essential to us.

Before writing this post, we naturally analyzed the reviews and found this company among them.

According to their clients’ opinions and observations, we highlighted several main points about the company.

Security and Anonymity

The pay-to-write essay plan is quite normal, especially if you have a lot of projects and assignments to turn in to a professor.

Anonymity for students is essential, and we understand why.

WriteMyEssayOnline, as we have seen, only requires clients to give their email when filling out their applications and asks for no personal information.

We concluded that the service does not collect data about its customers and respects their anonymity.

When you pay for essays online, it is essential to be mindful of your safety and pays only for services that guarantee it.

Essay Originality

When you pay someone to write an essay, there must be guarantees against plagiarism.

This company assures its customers that the authors of the service work exclusively with unique content for each student.

And clients can independently check their essays for uniqueness and pay no extra to check.

In our opinion and from feedback from clients, the authors of this site are producing original work, and this is certainly something to rejoice about.

Customer Support

Paying someone to write an essay means that you should be able to always count on help from the service when you need it.

While you are working with the site, you may have questions. A quality service should always support its students.

WriteMyEssayOnline claims to be available 24/7 to clients and ready to provide answers for students.

Write paper for me – these are the words that students say when they’ve decided to fully trust a service with writing their essays.

WriteMyEssayOnline is worthy of your attention and will allow you to select an author and collaborate with them on your project.

The price and number of free features will please you if you visit their site. Get someone to write your essay there if you are satisfied with the authors and their level of experience.

3. PayforWriting.com

The pay someone to write essay option may be the best after you’ve weighed everything in your mind.

Most likely, after reaching the decision to entrust someone with your task, you saw a lot of advertising on the Internet about essay writing services, and, of course, it was difficult to figure out which service to use.

That is why we decided to help you make the choice.

PayforWriting made it onto our list of the best sites because it has a good reputation among customers.

We only considered the opinion of those who had decided to pay someone to write an essay for them, and many of those who used this site had positive reviews.

The best way a site can be characterized is by how well its team members adhere to the promises made to customers.

After analyzing the site pages where the company highlights its advantages, we managed to draw some basic conclusions and want to share them with you.

Before paying someone to do an essay, we are happy to invite you to consider these findings:

Free Features

Pay for an essay on this site, and you need not be worried about overpaying for the author’s work.

As we can see, PayforWriting offers its customers several free features that are guaranteed to be available to every customer.

Judging by the reviews, all of its clients receive free revisions, uniqueness checks, quoting, and formatting.

That way, they can get help when they pay someone to do an essay without hurting their wallets.

Money-Back Guarantee

By deciding to pay for an essay, you get the right to a refund if you are unsatisfied with the help you received from PayforWriting authors.

The site says that clients can ask for compensation if the order they received does not suit them.

To receive a refund, you contact the site’s support team, which is available around the clock.

Managers check the order for errors and compliance with the client’s instructions, and if there’s an issue, your money is returned.

Accurate Delivery

Clients of this service pay for essays, as they need to turn in their assignments on time.

One of the most popular reasons students turn to such services for help is the need for more free time.

Therefore, services such as this always highlight precisely how they help their customers to save time.

According to the company, their authors always deliver their orders on time.

We read the comments related to the delivery times and found that most often, their clients were satisfied with the timeliness of their deliveries after they made the decision to tell the authors of PayforWriting – “I’d like to pay to do my essay.”

Based on our research, we’ve concluded that you can safely and efficiently pay for a paper on the PayforWriting site.

Of course, it is up to you to decide what exactly you should pay attention to and how best to choose a site to pay to write an essay.

4. BuyEssay.org

To pay for essay writing is much easier if you know all the best available options.

To save you time, we have created this list of the best sites specializing in essay writing. BuyEssay has earned our attention with positive reviews and an interesting approach to working with clients.

You can pay people to write essays here who have proven their competence and can give you the support you expect online.

Diverse Disciplines

The desire to pay for someone to write an essay implies that the student hopes to receive support no matter the subject they are having difficulty with.

BuyEssay, during the application registration, offers its clients more than 60 disciplines in which their authors can create papers.

Philosophy, Art, Economics, Business, and many other subjects are available upon registration of the order.

If you decide to pay for someone to write an essay on this site, you’re sure to find someone specializing in what you are looking for.

Urgent Help

BuyEssay clients who pay for someone to write essays for them are guaranteed help within 4 hours.

This kind of fast help is available if you have a one-page assignment. With that said, the company does advise you to consider delegating papers to its authors more in advance of the deadline.

With its service, you can choose the period you need on its calculator and simultaneously determine how much it will cost you to get assistance based on the deadline you set.

The cost of writing assistance is reduced when you give your author more time to finish your assignment.

Blog with Examples

If you choose, before you pay for an essay, you can view examples of your potential author’s work.

You will feel more confident with the final result because before placing an order, you can both calculate the cost of that order with their online calculator and you can evaluate the writing proficiency of the author by reading an example of one of their finished texts before you’ve selected them.

This is a great advantage BuyEssay has over other services you can find on Google when you pay for college essays with them.

When you say, “I want to pay to write my essay!” at that point, your wishes are their commands.

As it became clear to us in our research, you can get excellent customer support on this website.

Calculate the cost of your potential author’s work, evaluate samples, and only decide to pay for the essay with them if you are pleased with what you see.

BuyEssay is one of the best examples of quality student support, and we encourage you to take a closer look at its offerings.

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“I dream of paying for my essay and not paying a lot of money!”

We perfectly understand your desire not to spend a lot of money on essay help.

WritingCheap, even in the name of their service, makes it clear that their services won’t make you pay much. Of course, we wanted to check this ourselves before adding the site to our list.

When looking to get an essay written, the first thing that students tend to pay attention to is the price per page and then to all the other factors.

Naturally, in these reviews, we, therefore, look for comments regarding pricing policy.

Go on to read our notes about this service to see if paying someone to write your paper on this website is worth it:

Affordable Price

To pay someone to do your essays is best at an affordable price when you don’t have a lot of expendable income.

In researching this site, we’ve seen that the service authors offer a minimum price for paper of $9 with a maximum deadline.

As part of the service, the authors include custom formatting, create a title page for you, and make corrections for free.

That is to say, you can make whatever revisions you need to in your order without paying extra to the author.

Also, customers choose their authors themselves and can review various bids from potential authors before selecting one to work on their essays.

Online Chat with the Author

Paying someone to write an essay is best when there is an opportunity to personally discuss with the author any questions that might arise while you’re working with them.

“Individual approach” is what the company calls its method of collaboration with clients who come to them for help.

Students who decide to pay for essays with this service can contact their authors in real time and receive the necessary answers.

This way, students can have corrections made and ask for help with their topic and anything related to the writing of the paper.

The online chat feature is free, as are the other features we described.

Safety and Quality

It doesn’t matter what the quality of the writing help is if the writing service lacks a safe approach for students who decide to pay people to write an essay for them.

According to WritingCheap, their services are free and anonymous to every student who registers an order with them.

They guarantee security by closely monitoring the data and payment systems that their site uses. They also do not ask for unrelated personal information.

Their service also provides students with a plagiarism checker, which is absolutely free, to ensure that students receive absolutely original work.

You might still be asking yourself, “Is it safe to pay someone to write my paper?” After analyzing this website, we’ve concluded that you can trust them.

WritingCheap deserves a place on our list, and the budget-minded student looking to pay for essays should consider them as an option.

We evaluated a number of important characteristics when researching WritingCheap and found that they have a lot to offer.

Want to get affordable help and a quality paper? You will be satisfied if you decide to register an order with this cheap assignment writing service.

The affordability of the price wins over customers from the first line.

FAQ About How to Pay Someone to Write My Essay

How can I pay someone to do my essay and be safe?

Paying for essays online is safe and very easy. Want to order an essay online without stressing about safety?

Read their guarantees and their reviews.

The sites that made our list of the best are safe for students because they do not store your payment data and do not ask for your personal information.

When you decide to “pay someone to write my essay,” make sure you are not asked for information about your residence, your name, and so forth.

Can I pay to do my essay and be sure it’s original?

Originality is essential when you decide, “I want to pay someone to write my paper.”

Your identity is confidential for each of the 5 sites because the author’s custom-write original papers.

Before your professor grades you, they will check the text for originality.

Some of these sites will give you the opportunity to check the originality of the essay yourself, while the rest will provide you with a report that the author will send along with the order itself.

Is paying to write an essay costly?

Our list includes services that offer students affordable and reasonable prices.

We recommend researching how much your author’s help will cost you before going forward.

You’ll be able to evaluate prices via registration forms or via online calculators on the site pages. Ensure you understand your essay’s exact cost before getting an author to help you with it.

Which author will I get as an assistant for my essay?

Pay for essays only with authors that you feel confident in. According to the companies hosting these writers, they are professionals with appropriate levels of education.

By choosing a site with a bidding system, you will be able to select an author yourself and read their profile before entrusting them with your essay.

If you first pay for the order and then are given the author, you should read the information provided about their hiring practices—the sites we have chosen test the authors before starting to cooperate with them and guarantee you professionalism.

When I pay someone to write my paper, am I guaranteed to receive my order on time?

Beyond needing to hand in their papers on time, pricing is another reason why customers consider delivery times.

The writing services in this post have an excellent reputation and receive excellent reviews, in which customers thank them for timely deliveries.

If you decide to order an essay, you must clarify when and how you would like to receive your order.

In all cases, it’s best to give yourself more time for the essay to be completed to save yourself time and money.

Will I get a good grade if I pay someone to write an essay?

When you choose authors to help you, you get support from professionals who have already created many papers.

Among other things, your score will depend on your originality and adherence to all the writing and formatting rules.

Since the authors of the services we have chosen are professionals, you can count on good grades.

Get an A by telling the pros – “I want to pay someone to write my essay.”

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Academic writing often poses extreme challenges for students, leaving them searching for viable solutions. The pressure to produce flawlessly written essays can be daunting, prompting students to turn to essay help sites for much-needed assistance.

These situations often lead students to think about seeking help for essay writing. Thus, they wonder “Can someone write essays for me?” Sometimes, they feel the need to pay someone to write an essay and seek expert support to navigate these challenges. 

Various factors drive students to seek help with their essays. This includes time constraints due to multiple homework assignments, extracurricular engagements, or additional courses. Difficulty in understanding certain subjects or unexpected family emergencies further contribute to their need for assistance. A well-crafted essay requires factual accuracy, grammatical precision, and the ability to express ideas clearly. However, achieving these standards can be an incredibly time-consuming task. 

As a result, students often seek assistance from essay-help sites to complete their essays. Throughout this blog, we will explore the advantages of hiring someone to write essays for you. Additionally, we will share essential tips to guide students in their quest for reliable essay help, allowing them to make informed decisions to ensure their academic success.

Whether it’s “pay for essay” or “Can I pay someone to write my essay,” question, we will address the most common queries and equip students with the necessary knowledge to tackle their writing challenges effectively. 

1. The Rising Trend of Pay Someone to Write Essay: 

In today’s academic landscape, a growing trend among students is the decision to pay someone to write essays. So, it is crucial to understand the reasons behind this emerging trend and its potential ethical concerns and consequences. 

Increasing Academic Pressure  

Students face an ever-increasing amount of academic pressure. They have to deal with demanding coursework, tight deadlines, and high expectations from professors. This overwhelming workload often leaves them with limited time and energy to complete all their assignments effectively. 

Limited Time and Multiple Responsibilities  

Nowadays, students have numerous responsibilities beyond academics, such as part-time jobs, extracurricular activities, and personal commitments. Balancing all these responsibilities while meeting essay deadlines can be extremely challenging. 

Lack of Confidence in Writing Skills  

Not all students possess the same level of confidence and proficiency in writing. Many students struggle with expressing their thoughts coherently or following the conventions of academic writing. As a result, students seek expert help in writing an essay to meet the required standards. 

2. Advantages of Pay Someone to Write Essay: 

When you pay someone to write your essays, you gain access to a range of advantages that can greatly benefit your academic journey. Let’s explore the benefits of seeking expert help in writing an essay: 

Access to Expert Academic Writers  

When you pay someone to write essays, you gain access to a pool of experienced writers. These writers possess subject knowledge and are well-versed in academic writing standards. They understand the intricacies of your field of study and can produce high-quality essays that demonstrate their expertise. 

They are proficient in adhering to the specific requirements of academic writing. This includes proper formatting, citation styles, and referencing. Whether you need an APA, MLA, or Chicago-style essay, these writers are familiar with the various citation formats. They ensure that your essay meets the required standards. 

Time-Saving and Reduced Stress  

One of the significant advantages of seeking “do my essay” services is its time-saving aspect. You can free up valuable time to invest in other important tasks by delegating your essay to experts. Instead of struggling with essay writing, you can focus on studying for exams, engaging in extracurricular activities, or spending quality time with family and friends. This allows you to effectively manage your workload and prioritize your commitments while ensuring that skilled writers expertly handle your essays. 

Additionally, when you pay someone to write your essay, it helps you to reduce your stress levels.  The pressure of delivering high-quality work within the restricted deadline can be overwhelming. By entrusting the task to experts and choosing to pay someone to write my essay , you can alleviate this stress and experience. It could help you academically without sacrificing your mental health from the harms of stress and anxiety. 

Customization and Personalized Approach  

When you opt to do my essay services, you can expect a personalized approach that caters to your specific requirements. The writers tailor the essays based on your guidelines and instructions, ensuring the paper aligns perfectly with your expectations. This level of customization allows for a more individualized and unique essay that effectively reflects your ideas and perspectives. 

Moreover, these services consider your writing style and preferences. Incorporating your life events or experiences makes the essay feel more authentic and aligned with your personal style. Additionally, these expert writers often provide feedback and revisions, enabling you to improve your writing skills over time. 

Improved Grades and Academic Performance  

Opting to pay someone to write your essay increases your chances of receiving better evaluations and improving grades due to quality writing from expert professional writers. By entrusting the task to expert writers, you can expect to receive high-quality research, clear arguments, and well-structured content along with an in-depth understanding of the subject matter.

Their comprehensive knowledge and expertise not only foster a deeper understanding but also elevate the quality of work. When you opt to pay for essay services, it is to ensure that your essays stand out, showcasing a solid command on the subject matter. 

Moreover, studying the work of these experts presents a valuable learning opportunity. You can gain insights on effective essay writing strategies. It could be possible by analyzing their writing techniques, organizing ideas, and using evidence to support their logic. This knowledge can be applied to future assignments, facilitating your writing skills and contributing to continued academic success. 

In-Depth Research and Knowledgeable Experts  

When you seek assistance with “write my essay,” you get the significant advantage of in-depth research conducted by experts. Professionals in the field conduct this research, ensuring your essay is supported by reliable and up-to-date information.

These professionals, holding advanced degrees in their respective fields, possess a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Whether you want to pay someone to write your essay or pay for an essay, their extensive understanding enables them to delve deeply into the subject matter.  

By relying on their expertise, you can be confident that your essay will undergo meticulous research, ensuring factual accuracy and contributing to the highest quality of work. The expertise of these professionals ensures that they know how to keep their commitment of delivering exceptional results and assure , your academic success. 

Well-Structured & Grammatically Correct  

When you ask experts to do my essay for me, you receive a well-structured and flawless paper without grammatical mistakes. When writing essays, many students struggle to transform their thoughts into coherent sentences. Our experts help them to make their essays appealing and also adhere to grammar rules to ensure that it does not have errors. This task becomes even more complex for non-native speakers or those facing language barriers.  

However, when you assign your essay to professional writers, they have a deep understanding of grammar, writing rules, and language usage. They will skillfully craft your essay, ensuring it is well-written, grammatically accurate, and easily understandable. This attention to sentence structure and grammar enhances the overall quality of your essay and increases your chances to obtain better grades. 

Plagiarism-Free Content  

In the realm of academic writing, originality holds immense significance. When you opt to write my essay or do my essay for me services, you can be sure that your essay will be plagiarism-free. Skilled writers adopt a meticulous approach by veering away from duplicated material and writing essays from scratch, strictly following your specific instructions.  

When you seek assistance from experts in essay writing, you experience the relief of knowing that your work is 100% unique and truly reflects your ideas. They meticulously ensure that your essays uphold the highest academic integrity standards. With their expertise, you can confidently start your academic journey, knowing that your essays are original and personalized. 

Confidentiality  

Confidentiality is one of the key advantages when you pay someone to write an essay. Online platforms understand the importance of protecting your privacy and go to great lengths to ensure the security of your data. Rigorous measures, including advanced encryption techniques and strict data protection protocols, are implemented to safeguard your personal information. Your name, phone number, and email address are treated with the utmost confidentiality, remaining secure and undisclosed. 

These platforms provide you with a safe and discreet experience by prioritizing your privacy. You can confidently entrust them with your academic needs, knowing your confidentiality is always respected. With their careful handling of your details and robust security measures, you can embrace the support and assistance they offer, reassured that your privacy remains intact throughout your academic journey. 

24/7 Availability  

Online homework help websites, offering “Write my essay” or “Do my essay,” comes with the advantage of round-the-clock availability. Whether you’re facing approaching deadlines or realize you need assistance at the last minute, expert help is just a click away.

These platforms have a team of experienced professionals with expertise in writing, research, and proofreading. You also receive customized writing tailored to your specific requirements.  

With their extensive knowledge and ability to handle various subjects, you can rely on them to provide insightful guidance and help you navigate complex topics. Their 24/7 availability ensures you never have to worry about finding assistance when needed, allowing you to stay on track and excel in your academic endeavors. 

3. Tips to Find the Right Platform to Get Help with Writing an Essay: 

Several key factors must be considered when searching for the ideal platform to get assistance with writing an essay. With countless online essay writing websites, it can be tough to decide Which one suits your needs in the best possible way. Follow these tips to ensure you have a satisfactory experience of essay writing help: 

Research and Background Check  

Before paying someone to write your essay, it is essential to conduct thorough research and perform a background check. This involves reading reviews and testimonials from other students. It is crucial to look for a service with a solid reputation and a proven track record of delivering high-quality essays. Additionally, verifying the qualifications and expertise of the writers associated with the platform is essential to ensure that you receive the best possible assistance. These steps will help you make an informed decision and provide a successful essay-writing experience. 

Clear Communication and Instructions  

Clear communication is essential to ensure that your essay is written exactly as per your requirements. Provide detailed essay requirements, including the topic, formatting guidelines, and any specific instructions. Also, clarify your expectations and deadlines to avoid misunderstandings. Maintain open communication with the writing service throughout the process to address any concerns or questions that may arise. 

Plagiarism-Free Guarantee  

Plagiarism is a severe offense in academic writing. Choose a platform that guarantees the delivery of plagiarism-free essays. Check if they use reliable plagiarism detection tools and request originality reports to ensure the authenticity of the content. This way, you can be confident that your essay is original and will not affect your academic integrity.  

Affordable Pricing and Flexible Options  

Consider your budget when you’re going to pay people to write essays. Compare prices and services offered by different platforms to find the most cost-effective option. Some services offer reward points upon registration or loyalty programs such as TutorBin to help you save money in the long run. Additionally, assess the availability of free revisions and carefully review refund policies and money-back guarantees to protect your money. 

Confidentiality and Security Measures  

Protecting your personal information is paramount when seeking assistance to do my essay. Choose a platform that prioritizes confidentiality, ensuring your student identity remains secure. Look for non-disclosure of personal information that safeguards your personal details from third parties. With such precautions, you can confidently share your essay requirements, knowing that your information will be handled responsibly without any risk of data misuse. 

Free Revisions  

A reliable write my essay service provider understands the importance of delivering high-quality work that meets your academic standards. They are committed to your satisfaction and offer free revisions to ensure the final essay meets your expectations on quality. With this flexibility of free revision, you can offer positive feedback and improvement suggestions to experts that allow your writing professionals to tailor essays as per your suggestions. 

Refund Policy  

When searching for the right platform to do my essay, it is essential to check if the service provider offers a refund policy. This policy becomes especially important in exceptional circumstances, such as missed deadlines or when the completed essay fails to meet your specific requirements.

Look for a website like TutorBin that prioritizes student satisfaction and offers refunds if the agreed terms and conditions are not met. Also, ensuring your money is protected provides peace of mind in your academic journey. 

Customer Service Availability  

When choosing a platform for writing my essay assistance, it is important to consider customer service availability. A reputable service provider will have responsive customer support to address any questions or concerns you may have during the process.

They should be easily accessible through various channels, such as live chat, email, WhatsApp, or phone, ensuring timely assistance whenever you require it. By prioritizing effective communication and prompt support, you can have a smooth and satisfactory experience while seeking help with your essay. 

Secure Payment Methods  

Ensuring the security of your financial transactions is crucial when seeking assistance for writing my essay. Look for platforms that offer secure payment methods to protect your personal and financial information. Trusted payment gateways and data encryption technologies provide an extra layer of security, giving you peace of mind when you pay for the essay services you need.

By prioritizing the confidentiality and safety of your financial transactions, you can confidently avail yourself of the expertise and guidance of trusted professionals who can write your essay effectively and meet your academic requirements. 

4. Responsible Use of Write My Essay Services:  

Write my essay services have become increasingly popular among students, offering valuable support in their academic writing journey. However, students must use these services responsibly, intending to enhance their learning experience rather than using them to avoid homework.

It is essential to recognize that these services are meant to provide support, guidance, and additional resources to aid in academic growth rather than hinder the process of learning. In this section, we will explore how students can responsibly utilize essay writing services to their advantage. 

Utilizing Essays as Study Aids  

Seeking expert help to do my essay enables students to utilize essays as valuable study aids. These meticulously crafted essays provide valuable insights into proper essay structure, formatting and aid in comprehending the flow of ideas.

Through carefully analyzing these essays, students can broaden their writing repertoire, develop their unique voices, and acquire diverse writing techniques. Moreover, these essays serve as exemplary models for future work, assisting students in constructing compelling arguments supported by relevant evidence. This process enhances their writing skills and ultimately improves their academic performance. 

Learning From the Professionals  

By availing of my essay assistance, students open themselves up to a valuable learning opportunity from experienced academic writers. Students can gain valuable insights into effective self-expression by analyzing these experts’ writing styles and tones.

Additionally, students can observe the logical and coherent presentation of ideas, enhancing their ability to structure and articulate their thoughts. By adopting successful writing techniques demonstrated by experts, students can continuously refine their writing skills, resulting in high-quality and impactful academic papers. Write my essay help enable students to develop their writing ability that helps them to produce impressive work consistently. 

Taking Ownership and Responsibility  

While academic writing support offers benefits, students must take ownership and responsibility for their work. Instead of solely relying on provided essays, they should engage actively, examining ideas and arguments to deepen their understanding and conduct further research.

Taking responsibility means revising and editing essays to align with their perspectives and showcasing a commitment to growth and originality. Moreover, these writings can serve as additional research. Students demonstrate a commitment to do thorough research and credibility by incorporating reputable sources when they take ownership of their tasks and accept the responsibility to do their essays better. This approach fosters academic growth and enhances the quality of their work. 

5. Balancing Ethics and Personal Circumstances:  

In academic writing, students often find themselves confronted with the task of integrating ethics and their circumstances. It can be a delicate balancing act to uphold ethical standards while considering their unique needs and situations.

This discussion aims to guide students, like you, in navigating this equilibrium successfully. By finding the right balance, you can ensure academic integrity while effectively addressing the specific challenges and circumstances that shape your academic journey.

Understanding Ethical Guidelines  

Understanding the guidelines and principles that govern academic integrity is crucial to navigating the ethical dimensions of academic writing. Familiarize yourself with academic policies and codes of conduct related to plagiarism, citation, and research ethics. Adhering to these standards demonstrates your commitment to academic integrity and ethical writing practices. 

Considering Personal Circumstances  

While upholding ethics is essential, it is equally important to consider your circumstances when engaging in academic writing. Recognize that each student’s situation is unique, with factors such as time constraints, workload, and personal obligations playing a significant role.

Assess your circumstances and establish realistic goals and expectations for yourself. By balancing your academic responsibilities and personal circumstances, you can avoid unnecessary stress and ensure a more positive academic experience. 

6. Developing Writing Skills and Confidence  

Developing strong writing skills and confidence is a continuous process that requires dedication and practice. This section will explore effective strategies for students to enhance their writing abilities and build confidence in their academic work. 

7. Seeking Opportunities for Improvement and Utilizing Feedback for Growth  

To enhance their writing skills, students can actively seek opportunities for improvement. Participating in writing workshops or courses provides structured learning environments and expert guidance. These sessions cover grammar, style, and argumentation, allowing students to develop a solid foundation. 

Engaging in peer review and feedback sessions is another valuable route for improvement. Students gain various perspectives and refine their writing skills by exchanging written work with peers and providing constructive feedback. This collaborative approach exposes them to different styles and techniques, enhancing their proficiency. 

Additionally, independent writing practice is crucial. Students can apply acquired knowledge and techniques by dedicating regular time to writing independently, refining their style, strengthening arguments, and developing fluency. 

For additional support, students can opt for “write my essay” services that offer professional assistance tailored to their needs. These services provide valuable insights, feedback, and guidance, fostering continuous improvement in writing skills. 

Utilizing feedback and constructive criticism is essential for growth. Students should embrace feedback as a learning opportunity rather than a personal attack. Constructive criticism helps identify areas for improvement and guides the enhancement of their writing. By carefully considering feedback, students can pinpoint weaknesses and work on them deliberately, instilling confidence in their ability to produce high-quality work. 

Building confidence through continuous practice is vital for long-term success. Students’ self-assurance grows as they apply feedback, refine their writing skills, and witness their progress. It also empowers them to tackle future academic challenges positively, knowing they can seek professional help or rely on their capabilities as writers. 

TutorBin: Your Reliable Essay Writing Solution for Improved Grades and Academic Performance  

Students nowadays often find themselves overwhelmed with academic pressure, time constraints, and writing challenges in the current academic landscape. That’s where TutorBin comes in. Our expert team of academic writers specializes in various fields, ensuring high-quality and ethical writing practices.

With thorough research, well-structured content, and zero plagiarism, we tailor your essays to meet your specific requirements. Our commitment to confidentiality and round-the-clock availability guarantees prompt assistance.  

You can follow these key tips to ensure a successful essay-writing journey. First, conduct thorough research to gather relevant information for your essay. Effective communication plays a crucial role throughout the writing process.

Additionally, selecting a platform that offers valuable features such as plagiarism-free content, affordable pricing, confidentiality, and reliable customer service. In this regard, you can trust TutorBin to be your partner in achieving academic success. We are dedicated to offering high-quality student assistance and support, ensuring great learning and a better academic help experience. 

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• 8th August 2023

You have your first college essay to write, so what are your options for getting help? You knew where to get help back in high school, but college is a whole new hockey game. Should you pay someone to write your essay? Should you talk to your professor? Your roommate?

Fret not, because we will outline your options for getting help with your college essay .

In this post, you will learn:

●  Where to go to get help with essay writing.

●  Our take on essay writing services.

●  Advice for using AI to help you with essays.

While college teaches you to be fully independent, that doesn’t mean you have to figure everything out for yourself. Even the most independent college student needs help sometimes, so you should never feel ashamed for needing help.

Writing an essay is no easy task. Knowing your options will get your essay off to a great start, (and you want to avoid the cardinal sin of college writing: academic plagiarism ).

Your Options for Help

1. consult your professor.

While meeting with your professor seems counterintuitive, they can offer the best advice for tackling an essay. After all, they will be assessing it. Many students avoid asking their professor for help, as they feel that the professor will view them as incompetent. Of course, this isn’t true. The professor will be glad you’re seeking their help; it shows you’re a serious student. The best time to catch your professor is after class, or during their office hours.

We recommend following this plan:

1.  Make an appointment to see your professor during their office hours (this way, they will block time for you). 

2.  Come to the appointment with questions like “What ideas or themes should I specifically focus on in this essay?”

3.  Thank them for their time.

Professors will offer suggestions and ideas but won’t revise your essay draft. That’s your job. Think of it this way: A professor will give you fuel to get the fire going; it will be up to you to keep it burning.

2. Consult Your Teaching Assistant

A teaching assistant, or TA as they are colloquially known, is another helpful option. They’re often current graduate students, so they can relate better to you than the professor. Remember that they’ve been down the road you’re traveling, so they’ll have plenty of essay-writing experience.

If you’re attending a small private university, you probably won’t have a TA for any of your classes. However, if your class does have one, we suggest consulting with them before speaking with the professor.

As a TA is also busy, we urge you to take the same approach as you would when meeting with a professor. You’ll get an optimized help session with them when you make an appointment.

3. Visit the Writing Center

You might have been introduced to the university’s writing center during orientation. Did you know that a writing center is an excellent option for essay help? Current students majoring in English and creative writing studies often work as writing center tutors. You can be assured that writing center tutors are passionate about writing. Before visiting the writing center, you’ll need to have some ideas about how to tackle the essay. Therefore, we recommend consulting your professor or TA first.

Students often have a misconception of what falls under the scope of a writing center . Some students leave a writing center session disappointed with the services they received. Therefore, we want to clarify what a writing center does and doesn’t do.

A writing center will:

●  Work with you one-on-one, taking you through the assignment and the steps needed to complete it.

●  Help strengthen your thesis statement.

●  Provide feedback to clarify your ideas and express them more effectively.

●  Aid in developing or improving self-editing strategies.

●  Help you identify your writing strengths and weaknesses.

A writing center will not:

●  Write the essay for you; that’s your job.

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●  Tell you how to write the essay from the introduction to the conclusion.

●  Fix grammar errors, typos, and word choice in an essay.

A writing center will inspire you to get cracking on the assignment; the rest will be up to you.

4. Consider a Podcast

Are you a Spotify addict? Do you often listen to podcasts? If so, why not listen to podcasts catered to students needing help with college essays? There are a variety of student-related podcasts to choose from. However, you’ll need to listen to a few to find one that strikes your fancy.

You can listen to them while you eat dinner in the cafeteria, work out at the gym, or commute to and from campus. However, we don’t suggest listening to podcasts during class lectures – you’ll miss out on key pointers for exams!

5. Find a Tutor

You can find a tutor through your university or engage another student. The former will usually be free. If you prefer the latter, you can usually find advertisements around campus. We suggest asking them a few questions before setting up a session.

Working with a tutor will take some time, as you must get to know each other first. An advantage of a private tutor is you can get one-on-one time; there might be other students in your tutoring session if it’s through the university. The advantage of university-organized tutoring is that their tutors have been interviewed and you can be assured that these tutors specialize in their subjects.

If you’re anxious to get going posthaste, a tutor may not be the best option for you.

Should I Use an Essay Writing Service?

Some students pay an essay writing service to write the essay for them. However, you should be aware of the pitfalls of using them.

Common pitfalls include:

●  The writers may not be experts on your topic.

●  You won’t have an opportunity to view the writers’ credentials.

●  Someone else is writing the essay, leaving you wanted by the Plagiarism Police.

●  You will not learn anything (the whole point of university is to learn).

Professors expect you to write an essay using your own words and ideas. Additionally, they can distinguish your writing from someone else’s. Furthermore, many universities subscribe to plagiarism detection software such as Turnitin .

The consequences of plagiarism can be quite severe, ranging from automatically failing the assignment to being expelled from the institution. Sometimes, you can receive a particular failing grade indicating you were caught plagiarizing. This grade cannot be erased from your student record.

While essay writing services are tempting, we believe they aren’t worth jeopardizing your student career.

Should I Use ChatGPT to Write My Essay?

Students are increasingly using AI to help them with their essays. Popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT can save you valuable time. However, the world of academia is catching on to AI-student interaction. Using ChatGPT to write an essay could land you in plagiarism trouble if you simply copy and paste the entire AI-produced text. Universities are currently finding ways to detect essays written by ChatGPT, so don’t think you can fool your professor.

We encourage you to use ChatGPT to help you with the topic rather than use it to write the entire essay. Like professors, your TA, and the writing center, AI can get the fire going . Here are a few ways in which ChatGPT can help:

●  Provide anecdotes about the topic.

●  Suggest interesting facts and issues about the subject.

●  Suggest an outline for the essay.

You have more essay help options than you realize. Becoming a fully independent young adult doesn’t mean that you don’t need help sometimes – we all need help from time to time. We recommend consulting your professor, TA, and your school’s writing center. When seeking help, we advise you to understand what the essay asks of you. And above all, don’t expect someone else to write the essay for you.

We urge you to use AI to help with your essay’s topic rather than using it to write the essay from scratch. Misusing AI could result in plagiarism—the cardinal sin of academic writing!

After you’ve written your essay, we strongly recommend proofreading it. All your hard work can sometimes leave typos, extra spacing, and incorrect punctuation. You shouldn’t rely on your word processor’s spell-check tool to catch them all. Proofreading can be challenging, so we recommend asking our proofreading experts to review your writing . They can check that the paper is clear and concise. Additionally, they will ensure perfect grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Consider submitting a 500-word document for free!

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14 Best College Essay Services for 2024 (40 Services Reviewed)

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Not sure which college application essay coaching and editing service is the best? We compared the top 40 services, created in-depth reviews for 14 of them, and narrowed it down to the 4 best that will help guide you through the process of writing amazing college application essays.

What is the Best College Essay Service?

• PrepMaven  – best college application essay service overall
• College Essay Mentor  – best for individual consultants
• The College Essay Guy  – best for unlimited essay assistance
• College Vine  – best of the big platforms

The best of the rest:

Individual essay consultants:

• College Essay Editor  – small editing team
• Allison Karpf  – former English teacher helping students
• Your College Vision  – former journalist with more affordable rates
• The College Guru  – good on paper but unresponsive
• Sofia Zapiola – budget-friendly application assistance

Mid-size teams:

• Lotus Learning  – focus on health sciences

Large platforms:

• Study Point  – larger platform with mystery editors
• Ivy Select  – larger platform with mystery editors
• Empowerly  – larger platform with mystery editors
• BeMo  – expensive and aggressive with wrong expertise

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Best College Application Essay Services in 2024

#1 – prepmaven.

Our Verdict — Best College Essay Assistance Overall Price: $79–349/hour (minimum $510 package) PrepMaven’s one-on-one college essay assistance is the best option overall. Founded by brothers and Princeton grads Greg and Kevin, almost all of PrepMaven’s essay coaches have Ivy-League experience, primarily from Princeton and Harvard. All essay coaches also undergo a thorough training program in PrepMaven’s methods, developed by professional writers with deep understanding of the college admissions process, for helping students to discover the most compelling stories for their essays. Unlike other services, PrepMaven offers college essay assistance at several different price points. At the most accessible rate, students can work with current Ivy-League undergraduates who specialize in writing and have recently aced the college application process. At higher rates, students can work with coaches who are both Ivy-League grads and professional writers (screenwriters, journalists, editors) with many years of experience helping students to craft compelling essays. Interested students can even work directly with founders Greg and Kevin, who have over 15 years of experience helping students through the entire essay-writing process. PrepMaven’s services combine many of the best features of other good options into one, and it’s hard to beat their experience.

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Any student wanting college essay help, at any point in the process, with a range of budgets.

At a glance:

• Cost: $79–349/hour (minimum $510 package)
• Writing coach qualifications: Princeton graduates and professional writers (or current Princeton students); all trained

What we like:

• Ivy League experience —most of their writing coaches are Princeton grads or current students, with some from Harvard and other Ivies
• Different pricing options to meet different families’ circumstances
• More flexible and greater capacity to take on new students compared to individual consultants

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#2 – College Essay Mentor

Our Verdict — Best of the Individual Consultants Price: unknown but high Some college essay consulting services consist of just one expert. Of these individual essay consultants, Chris Hunt at College Essay Mentor is our favorite. He combines writing experience as a journalist for the Economist and the Wall Street Journal with personal experience as a graduate of Dartmouth. However, he only works with a small number of students each year, and students need to apply to work with him — he only accepts students with top grades and test scores who are already strong applicants for top schools. Chris offers the option for one-time written feedback, but this only gives big-picture generalizations. (And written-only feedback is always limited.) In order for help with the essay process, students need to purchase a complete essay package.

Students with top grades and test scores who want to work with a one-person business, who have a sizable budget, and who are ready to get started early.

• Cost: $210 for a one-time written essay feedback (big picture only), then $110 per draft feedback; pricing for essay process packages unknown
• Essay coach qualifications: professional journalist, Dartmouth grad
• Professional writing experience as a journalist
• Extensive experience working with college applicants
• Partners with Debra Felix, former Director of Admissions at Columbia, for full application review

What we don’t like:

• One-on-one work is limited to very high-achieving students, who need to apply with a resume : “I limit my one-on-one work to students who I believe will be strong applicants to elite universities. As a rule, this means having high grades in challenging classes, a test score of ACT 34+ or SAT 1500+, and substantial activities outside of the classroom.”
• Works with a limited number of students (60 per year), so often no availability
• All-or-nothing packages don’t allow students to work with Chris for just a few hours or for part of the essay-writing process
• Secretive about pricing (he’ll only give pricing details once he’s reviewed the student’s resume and agreed to work with them), but we expect the minimum cost of working one-on-one to be several thousand dollars

#3 – The College Essay Guy

Our Verdict — Best for Unlimited Essay Assistance Price: $4900 for application to 3 schools, $8050 for application for 10 schools We’re fans of Ethan Sawyer, the original “college essay guy”— his book, College Essay Essentials , is a great guide to the essay-writing process. Ethan doesn’t work directly with many students these days, but he now has a team of consultants who help students follow his principles. Their assistance is really all-or-nothing — they prefer to work with students from the very beginning of the process, and their minimum package is $4900, which includes assistance with essays for three schools. If students are applying to ten schools (a more realistic number for students aiming at competitive colleges), the fee is a hefty $7400.

Students who want unlimited help through the entire process, who have a sizable budget.

• Cost: $4900 (supplemental essays for 3 schools) – $7400 (supplemental essays for 10 schools)
• Essay coach qualifications: mix of Ivy grads and former teachers, some writers/screenwriters; all trained
• Great free resources about the essay-writing process
• Their Matchlighters Scholars Program gives back to the community by providing admissions consulting for select qualifying students
• All-or-nothing packages have a high minimum fee and don’t work for students who want just a few hours of feedback or help with just part of the process

#4 – College Vine

Our Verdict — Best of the Big Platforms Price: $140–180/hour There are plenty of large platforms with large stables of part-time tutors and coaches available to work with students. Of these big platforms, we think CollegeVine has the best offerings. Compared to other large companies, CollegeVine provides more information about their tutors, and students can pick individual tutors to work with from their roster. However, this model is really just a way of finding individual tutors to hire. Tutors don’t receive any training and don’t share a common approach, so it’s a mixed bag. Their rates are fairly high for part-time tutors who don’t have specific expertise and training in college essay consulting. Because CollegeVine is really just a marketplace where individual tutors can find students, the quality and price will vary widely.

Students who want to work with a big company, or those who want a quick session or two to go over their essays.

• Cost: Typically $140–180/hour
• Essay coach qualifications: no specific qualifications, but a few are Ivy League graduates
• Possible to select individual editors to work with from their roster.
• Easy to schedule ad-hoc sessions with a tutor through the website.
• No training or common approach for tutors
• Editors are part-time , with no option to work with full-time college admissions experts
• Relatively expensive for this level of expertise

College Essay Editing Alternatives (that Didn’t Make the Cut)

Individual essay consultants, #5 – college essay editor.

Our Verdict — Small Editing Team Price: Roughly $5,950 for applications to 10 schools College Essay Editor comprises two graduates of Stanford. This means that they have personal experience applying to highly competitive schools. One member of the team also has a college counseling certification, which is a good background for college essays. Based on their website, they appear to focus on the editing and proofreading phase of the essay-writing process. This can be helpful to students, but we recommend working with a service who can help students to uncover their values and brainstorm really great material that allows them to really shine—and if this doesn’t happen at the beginning of the process, it’s much harder to add in later on.

• Cost: $195/1000 words for proofreading, $495/1000 words for 3 rounds of editing and proofreading, or $595/1000 words for unlimited rounds of editing and proofreading; for the purposes of comparison, complete applications to 10 competitive colleges would be around 9,650 words, or $5950.
• Writing coach qualifications: Stanford graduates, one of whom has college counseling certification
• Editors are graduates of Stanford University , and one is a member of NACAC, the national association of college counselors
• They focus on editing and proofreading only , not on the crucial earlier steps of brainstorming and strategy
• Small team with very limited availability
• All asynchronous editing so you won’t be able to cultivate a real relationship with your essay coach.

#6 – Allison Karpf

Our Verdict — Former English Teacher Helping Students Price: $385/hour or $3850 package for application to one school Another option for students looking to hire an individual consultant is Allison Karpf. Allison is a former high school English teacher and a graduate of UC Berkeley who also holds a Masters of Education from Stanford. Her rates are definitely on the higher side, especially for someone who doesn’t have a professional writing background, but she does have extensive experience working with students to craft their essays.

• Cost:  $385/hour or $3850 unlimited counseling (includes supplemental essays for one college)
• Essay coach qualifications: former high school English teacher; Berkeley grad, Stanford MEd
• Lots of experience helping students improve their college essays
• Very quick to respond to client requests
• No professional writing experience or Ivy-Plus undergraduate experience
• High rates relative to other options
• Limited availability , since she works alone

#7 – Your College Vision

Our Verdict: Former Journalist with More Affordable Rates Price: $180/hour, or packages starting from $3500 Laurie Lande is another individual consultant who helps students through the essay-writing process. She comes recommended by other consultants like Chris from College Essay Mentor . Laurie did not herself attend a highly competitive school, so she doesn’t have that personal experience of going through the selective admissions process, but she does have a professional writing background as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.

• Cost: $180/hour or packages starting at $3500
• Essay coach qualifications: journalism background
• Affordable pricing , relative to other options
• Not a graduate of a highly selective school

#8 – The College Guru

Our Verdict — Good on Paper but Unresponsive Price: unknown Yet another individual essay consultant is Geanine Thompson from The College Guru. Geanine attended Dartmouth as an undergraduate and also holds an MBA from Duke. She also has a professional writing background as an assistant book editor at Berkley Publishing Group. Like Greg and Kevin at PrepMaven , she combines experience in the business world and at Wall Street firms with experience in education.

• Cost: unknown
• Essay coach qualifications: former assistant book editor; Dartmouth grad, Duke MBA
• Dartmouth graduate and former book editor
• Not responsive to emails and client requests

#9 – Sofia Zapiola

Our Verdict — A budget-friendly, personal essay editor. Price: $80/hour Yet another individual essay consultant is Sofia Zapiola, who offers a mix of essay editing and college application counseling services.

• Cost: $80/hour
• Essay coach qualifications: M.A. from Harvard; certificate in College Counseling from UC San Diego.
• Individual approach, budget-friendly rates, commitment to working within families’ budgets.
• Very few testimonials, so it’s difficult to evaluate how effective she is.

Mid-size Teams

#10 – lotus learning.

Our Verdict — Expensive for Tutor Background Price: $165/hour Founded by a Harvard grad who is a former teacher and veteran of the publishing industry, Lotus learning offers college essay help in the Boston area. They have a small team of tutors, mostly recent grads from good but not Ivy-Plus colleges, and mostly with focus in health sciences.

• Cost: $165/hour (minimum 8 hours)
• Essay coach qualifications: tutors are recent grads, but not Ivy-Plus schools
• Reasonable pricing with flexible packages
• Essay editors aren’t graduates of Ivy-Plus schools and don’t have professional writing experience

Large platforms

#11 – study point.

Our Verdict — Larger Platform with Mystery Editors Price: Rates Between $60 and $120/hr Study Point is a larger essay editing service. They claim to have several decades of experience helping students to craft their college essays, but they do not give information about who their essay coaches are and what qualifications they might have.

• Cost: $60-120/hr, depending on tutor experience
• Essay coach qualifications: unknown
• Larger company with several decades of experience
• Unclear who the essay coaches are
• Lack of statistics about their results

#12 – Ivy Select

Our Verdict — Larger Platform with Mystery Editors Price: unknown Ivy Select makes a lot of big promises on their website about having the best college essay consultants in the business, but they offer no information on who these consultants are, or on their backgrounds. They also brag that each consultant “only” works 20 students in one application cycle, but in our experience, that’s quite high.

• Long list of impressive (but anonymous) testimonials
• Only work with “top students”
• No information on their website about who the editors are
• Each essay coach works with up to 20 students at one time

#13 – Empowerly

Our Verdict — Larger Platform with Mystery Editors Price: High, from $6000/year Empowerly has over 60 college counselors who each work with an average of 5 students per year, in order to have more time to devote to each student. Their counselors come from “different educational backgrounds,” and while they do not provide specific biographical details we can assume that most of their essay coaches did not attend highly selective schools.

• Cost: typically from $6000/year
• Essay coach qualifications: college counselors
• Counselors work with just a few students per year
• You have to upgrade to “Empowerly Elite” to guarantee a counselor with a more selective educational background
• No professional writing experience

#14 – Prepory

Our Verdict — Expensive but with Good Expertise Price: $325/hr Prepory is a college application and career counseling service that offers a comprehensive program for college applications at any stage of the process (including as early as 9th grade). They make a lot of impressive claims about the expertise of their coaches, but it’s quite difficult to actual find much information about their essay coach qualifications.

• Cost: $325/hr
• They have a comprehensive college application program that begins as early as 9th grade.
• Limited information about essay coaches
• High prices

Top 40 College Essay Services Considered

• College Essay Editor
• The College Essay Guy
• College Vine
• College Essay Mentor
• Study Point
• Allison Karpf
• The College Guru
• Lotus Learning
• Summit Prep
• Sofia Zapiola
• Ivy Global / New Summits
• College Essay Solutions
• Your College Vision
• Essay Edge*
• ServicEscape*
• PapersForge*
• QuickWriter*
• JustEditMyEssay*
• JustDoMyEsssay*
• ExpertWriting*
• SpeedyPaper*
• GradeMiners*

* A number of services will edit essays directly for students, or even write portions of the essay for students. We do not condone this. Admissions officers can tell when essays have been written or edited by adults and this can have severe consequences. We have excluded these services from our reviews.

Why are college application essays important?

Can a great college essay alone get you into Harvard?

No. You’ll need your grades, test scores, and extracurricular activities (as well as letters of recommendation and interview) to be outstanding.

But can a mediocre essay be the reason you didn’t get into Harvard?

Yes. There are thousands of amazingly-qualified students who graduate from high school each year. Great grades and test scores might be a prerequisite for admission to a competitive college, but they alone aren’t enough.

College essays are a key component of a student’s application . When done well, they transform a collection of numbers—GPA, class rank, SAT or ACT scores , number of AP classes taken, AP scores—into a glimpse of a real, individual person.

Essays do many things. Good college essays can highlight extracurricular achievements which otherwise would be overlooked in a sterile list. Strong essays often indicate the student’s future plans —how they plan to leave a mark on their college campus and on the world. They can shine a light on unique challenges that a student may have had to face on their journey.

College admissions officers only have a few minutes to spend on each application. College essays need to be original, interesting, and memorable . They need to grab the attention of the admissions officer and persuade them that this is the student out of hundreds or thousands of other similarly-qualified applicants who should be admitted.

College admissions essays are usually unlike any other kind of writing that students have done before. They’re a combination of memoir and marketing pitch, and they need to be creative but also highly strategic. That’s a tough assignment!

What’s more, students are left to figure this assignment out on their own. A thoughtful and generous high school English teacher may provide guidance or offer to read essays and give feedback, but these teachers are responsible for many students, and they’re (usually) not experts in admissions strategies.

There’s another reason college essays are especially important from 2024 on. After the recent Supreme Court decision, the application essay has become one of the main ways that you can communicate how your racial identity has affected your life.

In fact, the New York Times published an article about how important it can be for students to discuss race in their college application essays!

Why work with a college essay service?

You may want to consider a college essay service if:

• You have no idea where to start in order to write your college application essays
• You feel overwhelmed by all of the different ideas you have and don’t know what would be the most strategic for college admissions—and what topics to definitely avoid for college essays
• You don’t know how to craft a compelling stor y
• You’re not sure how to edit and refine what you’ve written
• You have a hard time keeping yourself on track and want an external structure to hold you accountable
• You’re tired of conflict between students and parents about college essays
• You’re aiming at a competitive college (not just the Ivy League!) and know that you need your essays to be outstanding
• Your grades, test scores, and extracurriculars aren’t exceptional, so you need your essay to make your essay stand out from the pack
• You’re unfamiliar with the US college admissions process (a common situation for international students and first-generation families in the US)

Any of these are strong reasons to consider working with a college essay service!

It’s also worth remembering that a lot of the free advice on college’s website isn’t always very clear. For example, NYU’s admissions Senior Assistant Director of Admissions says that “There is no right or wrong way to answer as long as your answer is genuine to you.”

While that’s true, that doesn’t offer much guidance on how to actually write the essay!

Though many college applicants might not mention it, more and more students are using professional college application consultants. Research at the University of Chicago has shown that over a quarter of high-achieving seniors employed private specialists to help with the college application process.

In fact, according to NPR , some companies are even offering college admissions counseling to their top employees as an incentive–that’s just how important professional help can be in the current landscape of college admissions.

It’s important to note that a good college essay service will not write your college application essays for you . This is unethical and illegal. That’s not just coming from us: take it from a school like Princeton, whose website insists on the importance of writing your own application essays.

A good college essay service will guide you through each step of the process , teaching you how to self-reflect and write well while sharing insider insight about admissions strategy .

What makes a good college essay service?

We strongly believe that students need to write their own college essays , and we do not condone plagiarism or “buying” a college essay.

However, writing college application essays requires a completely new set of skills that is rarely taught in high school!

Writing a personal essay is much more creative than simply writing a good paper for English class. It requires a compelling narrative and a great deal of writing craft . A good essay service will teach how to do this kind of writing.

There are many college essay services that will provide only written feedback to students, usually in the form of comments added to an essay draft. (Remember, it’s important that students write their own essays, so avoid any college essay service that will make edits directly to an essay document .)

Written comments can be an effective component of good essay coaching. However, writing college essays is a deeply personal process , and it’s incredibly difficult to guide a student through the process of self-reflection, brainstorming, and planning purely through written comments.

In addition, a great college essay coach will teach students how to do this entire process of brainstorming, planning, outlining, writing, and revising . It’s difficult to learn why an essay coach is advising certain changes through written comments alone.

For these reasons, look for a college essay service with live, one-on-one services , not just written feedback. These days, it’s easy to work with the best college essay consultants in the country over Zoom!

Students need to reflect on their goals, their passions, and what drives them to be the person they are. This requires a great deal of self-awareness and self-analysis . An experienced college essay coach can help draw these ideas out of students through tested introspection techniques and brainstorming exercises .

On top of all of that, students need to be cognizant of which traits and accomplishments will be most appealing to colleges , and which stories will be cliche and boring. Personal statements and supplementary essays need to fit together to tell a cohesive story, and they need to work together with the rest of the student’s application (extracurriculars, grades, and other accomplishments).

In other words, there’s a great deal of strategy here! An experienced college essay service can help students decide how to present themselves in the best possible light .

Furthermore, most students don’t know how to edit effectively . A really top-notch college essay service will also teach students how to edit their own writing —how to reorder sections for better flow, cut unnecessary words to meet a word count, eliminate passive verbs, and make their writing vivid and exciting. Our students are routinely amazed by how transformative this step can be, and how much they learn by doing it together with the essay coach.

Finally, the best college essay services can also help students to make a writing plan and keep them on track , so that parents don’t have to be involved directly.

Ready to work on your college essays? Schedule a free 15- to 30-minute consultation with Jessica or one of our founders.

Best overall: PrepMaven’s tutors offer the highest quality at the best price. With three tiers of tutors, they make it easy to work with an Ivy League undergraduate for as little as $79/hr. Or, families can work with education professionals or Ivy League graduates from $150/hr. PrepMaven’s track record means that you can be sure every hour is being spent productively, so that you can expect real results from the work.

Best for individual consultants: College Essay Mentor. In theory, College Essay Mentor would offer an unparalleled level of individual attention and guidance: his website boasts of some very impressive results. You might find it hard to actually schedule with him, however, since he’s very selective about his clients.

Best for unlimited essay assistance: The College Essay Guy might not offer that personalized attention you get from live, face to face essay coaching, but they do offer unlimited essay editing for up to 10 schools (if you’re comfortable paying a hefty package price).

Best of the big platforms: College Vine will always be a bit of a gamble. Because it’s a tutor marketplace, your results (and costs) will really depend on how lucky you get with your consultant. From our research, however, many of their essay coaches look to have solid track records.

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How Much to Pay Someone to Write Essays: Tips before Paying

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Essay writing is an everyday business that has been gaining popularity in the academic corridors. However, with a burden of assignments and a lack of time, many graduates prefer to hire someone to write an essay paper at a cost.

This creates an open field where many writers offer their services to eager students to get their assignments done. With many providers of writing services, there is a variation in the prices charged to write an essay. So, what is the correct amount to pay?

The average amount to pay someone to write your essay is between $12 and $35 per page, depending on the paper’s urgency and the assignment’s technicality. Most writers charge up to $12 for simple essays that have a longer deadline while charging up to $35 for technical orders whose deadline is urgent and within a few hours.

The cost really depends on several factors that we will discuss in detail later in this article. Before that, I must note that you need to be careful when you are charged anything lower than this. This is because no quality writer will charge anything less than $12.

At the same time, no legit essay writing service will charge way more than $35 because it is way too high. A price of $35 is higher than the target market can afford. The market in this case is students.

The cool thing about the price for cheap college essay services because the writers are open to edits and unlimited revisions. If the clients need several changes in the documents, they are flexible to make edits to the customer’s satisfaction. Let’s dig in.

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Why People Opt to Pay Essay Writers

Offering an essay writing service to your client comes at a cost. You are at liberty to charge an essay based on several factors.

That said, you should have the advanced skill to handle any order that comes your way so that you do not produce shoddy work.

Many people opt for professional essay writing services because they want to enjoy premium quality. The essays from such professionals are of outstanding quality.

Additionally, most of such articles are 100% original and unique. Be sure that you will not be duplicating someone’s work.

Besides, by hiring someone to write you an essay, the chances of getting your work on time are high.

Some can write top-notch content within hours or days and get the feedback to you on time. Still, these essays are usually free of grammatical and spelling errors.

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Factors that determine the Cost of an Essay or Paper

Pricing your essay paper depends upon several factors. You must consider such elements while negotiating with your potential client to strike a balance. Generally, the standard way of pricing for any paper is by involving the following components:

1. The Urgency of the Paper – Deadline

Not all essay papers ought to get delivered in the same timeframe. Some can take months, weeks, days, and others may require hours.

For instance, if the paper is exceptionally urgent to a tune of six hours, you must be ready to pay for more.

That is because the essay writer needs to suspend other duties and focus on that paper within the time limit. Essay writing is a complex work when subjected to a short time frame.

The main disadvantage of short time frames is that mistakes and errors may occur. If the writer is conversant in the field, be sure to make minimal mistakes.

Many writers charge expensively when you give them such orders with strict deadlines that require just some hours. 

On the other side, you can opt to charge averagely if the deadline is for a few weeks. That is because you are not under pressure to deliver that work. You have ample time to research and give to the expectation of your client.

Lastly, if the deadline is for a month or so, you have an option to charge less than shorter deadlines.

The essay writer can write the paper and have adequate time to revise and correct any visible error without feeling the pressure.

The trick that comes with such orders is that you should also write them in advance and take more time to revise and make any meaningful amendments as per the client’s wishes.

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2. Your Level of Study for the homework

The level of study is a vital aspect that one should price any order. There are different levels of analysis to factor in your services.

First off, we have college-level diplomas and undergraduate degrees. Given such tasks to write a specific essay on their level, we expect that you charge lower. 

On the other hand, you should charge higher when you are handling master’s level projects.

That is because they are so involving and require extensive research.

For that matter, such projects are time-consuming and tedious.

Charge the essay according to the level to appear professional.

Last but not least, a PhD essay will command high rates from the writer. That is because you must perform comprehensive research and come up with practical and helpful information to prove your facts.

Just like a master’s level, it also requires more time for the writer to research and gets the right points about a specific topic in focus.

3. The Technicality of the assignment

Some essays are easy to write without demanding much effort from the researcher. As such, the student expects the writer to charge lower because one will not scratch the head looking for more materials to make them appear complicated.

Also, some of the topics that you may be researching are available readily on different platforms.

Surprisingly, some essays are difficult to develop and construct into valuable and meaningful forms. You need to perform complex and extensive research and come up with an accurate conclusion that is devoid of errors.

Some may include performing some mathematical calculations and developing intricate formulae before resolving to a certain point.

Given a task that is not too technical, you should charge less. If you are handling a technical paper, charge more since you will require more effort to make it acceptable in the end.

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4. Editing vs. Writing Task

Some assignments from students may come in two formats. Firstly, it may just be to edit existing work and do some meaningful changes to make it acceptable.

Editing requires less research as the writer may be eliminating some grammatical and spelling errors and other mistakes.

Additionally, editing may be to change facts and tailor them to agree with the demands of the topic in question. Overall, you will charge less when editing since little effort is what you require to make matters done.

Interestingly, writing from scratch can be time-consuming. You have to perform thorough research before you align those facts into a usable form.

Unlike editing, writing will consume more time since you have to write each and every part of the context. For that matter, you have to charge higher since it is time-consuming and involving.

5. The Spacing of the Paper

Spacing is another fact that one should never overlook when dealing with essay writing tasks.

Each client may come with varying instructions regarding spacing. You should see if the customer prefers single spacing or double spacing.

If you are using the single-spacing format, you should double charge the essay. The main argument behind such a rule is that a single-spaced page is the same as two double-spaced pages. Ensure that you stick to this rule and make a kill.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Anxious readers are ever looking for answers on different aspects. This section will be highlighting some of the common questions that you expect from the market.

How much to charge for essay editing?

Essay charging is dependent on several factors. Firstly, before you charge for your essay, consider the urgency of the task.

If the deadline is near, then you should make the charges higher.

Additionally, determine the level of study. If you are dealing with a Ph.D. content, then charge higher than an undergraduate or a master’s level project.

More importantly, if the paper is too technical, it calls for higher rates and vice versa.

Lastly, know if the project is for editing only or developing it from scratch.

If you are writing from scratch, then charge higher than when you are just editing.

Do Essay Writing Services Really Work?

Indeed, essay writing is a common way of assisting college students in handling their assignments through outsourced services.

The writer must have extensive knowledge in the field and deliver quality work, which should challenge the supervisor. You can read a related discussion that essay writing services do work if they are run professionally and provide quality work.

Essay writing is a thriving business around the world. Some people opt for it because they may be handling other issues such as family and work affairs. However, you must seek the services of a reputable organization or person to avoid shoddy work.

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Are you still unable to determine how much to charge or pay for an essay writer? The cool thing is this piece has been giving you a clue of the facts you may focus on to determine the pricing.

This write-up is for you if you want to stay updated on the key things that determine how the essay writer should charge a student. Overall, the information above is a must-know to understand how organizations are pricing coursework.

Though getting such services is not illegal in several institutions , ensure that you get a good writer who has vast experience in such a particular field.

With over 10 years in academia and academic assistance, Alicia Smart is the epitome of excellence in the writing industry. She is our managing editor and is in charge of the writing operations at Grade Bees.

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