How do Term Paper Services Fit Your Custom Essay Needs?
By Melissa Bryant, Custom Essay Writer
The first time you order a custom essay from a term paper service, you have to have a lot of faith. By simply sending over the details of your project along with your credit card information, you hope to receive an excellent model paper. But how do you know you are getting a good product for your money? Well, the short answer is, you don't-until you've seen the paper. But there are certain tell-tale signs that savvy customers should consider before working with a particular term paper writing service.
To begin with, take a look at the purchase form on their website. You can discern a lot about the company's pricing structure, breadth of resources, and relationship with their writers from this little form.
Some services charge a flat rate per-page, not taking into account any other factors about the custom essay. They make a certain amount of money for every page of the custom essay, and so do their writers. Whatever this ratio is, it yields enough profit to keep them doing business.
Yet this simple approach puts undue emphasis on length, and not enough emphasis on the individuality of the paper. Just take it at face value: if they have a one-size fits-all price for term papers, isn't your paper going to get one-size-fits-all attention? It's kind of like the olden days, when professional writers were paid per word, so they wrote volumes of unnecessary rubbish; whereas, when writers began to be paid for the overall quality of their work, the products got better and better.
Not to mention, with a flat per-page rate, the owners of the term paper services have an incentive to cut corners. Font sizes are adjusted, spacing is tampered with, and margins are tweaked. That way, they can pay their writers for X amount of pages and charge the customers for X + 1 or 2.
Custom essay services that ask customers to fill out a more detailed form are preferable. These forms generally ask for the education level of the customer, as well as the amount and type of research involved. When you see a highly-detailed questionnaire on a term paper site, you are more likely to be dealing with a company that pays the writer based on the complexity of the project, which, by definition, means that the specifics of your term paper are going to be taken into account. These custom essay services also tend to have a large, diversified pool of term paper writers from which to choose in assigning your paper.
A term paper service will also stay away from hidden charges and everything that resembles them. Paper services hide charges in a few ways. My favorite is the per-page charge for e-mailing a custom essay. Why should there be a charge for dragging a file into a window and clicking send? It sounds to me like someone thought of a way to take advantage of a vulnerable student. After all, the vast majority of customers want the model term paper e-mailed to them. For those who are operating under strict deadlines, there is no choice. Charging for e-mailing a custom essay is simply wrong.
More common are ridiculous rush fees. As a term paper writer myself, I do understand the need to charge extra for a quick turnaround. But it really irks me when a low-quality term paper service charges three times the normal price for a custom essay that won't even prove useful for the student when she finally receives it. Before agreeing to rush fees, be sure that you're dealing with a reputable company.
Another telling quality of a custom essay service is how easy it is to communicate with them. Your first question should be: do they have a phone number? Think twice before dealing with a custom essay writing company that is so efficient that they won't even speak to you. The model term papers they produce are likely to reflect that lack of customer service. Of course, the existence of a phone number alone does not guarantee personalized attention. They have to actually answer. There are so many term paper writing services out there, it is well worth it to take the time to find one that treats you respectfully and answers your questions.
Finally, if I were looking for a term paper service, I would choose one that struck me as good-natured. I would not entrust my research to a money-hungry or unprofessional company. One term paper company, for instance, maintains a list of other term paper services that they claim outsource to foreign countries. However, they do not verify their list. In other words, they commit libel for the sake of making some extra money off of it. With such business practices, it is questionable whether that company's consumer practices would be any more ethical.
It is important, above all, to feel comfortable with your custom essay service, especially if you are thinking of starting a relationship with them. It would be great to just get on the phone and say, "Hey there Mr. Term Paper Man, I need some help!" and have the person on the other end be sympathetic and fair with you. There are a lot of term paper services out there, but not so many that you can find a dozen that have excellent customer service. No, there are about as many custom essay services that provide high-quality customer service as you can count on one hand-and that's only if you've got some fingers missing. ;-)
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