Freelance writing: Academia-Research.com
Freelance writing is definitely not for everyone. But if you have the skills and education in this industry it is a good way to start your work from home. Your market: websites, online newspapers and magazines, industry and general blogs, offline writing, etc. I have reviewed some online markets for freelance writers in the past.Today I would like to review one more service: Academia-Research.com. The company has recently issued a press release. Here come a few paragraphs:
Academia-Research.com is a quality academia writing and research support company. It has been engaged in academic and research writing services since 1998.
The key of Academia-Research.com success is in its unique services which are not similar to ones provided by many other custom writing companies. First, its essays, term papers, dissertations, research papers, theses, book reports are not resold. They are unique, not copied and Academia-Research.com customers’ copyrighted.
Academia-Research does not use customized examples and catalogues of ready essays which can be tracked in other academia help papers companies. Next, Academia-Research custom writing quality is much higher than prices. It does not mean the prices are too low, it means the quality is very high. At last but not least, plagiarism is termed as the worst sin and Academia-Research freelance writers do not use scratches. Each project meets the exact needs of customers and it is revised, edited and improved to the customer’s complete satisfaction.
Academia-Research.com provides online freelance writing job opportunities and custom writing services. The excellent freelance writing job opportunities are offered to all experienced writers. The company’s success in essay writing is based on thorough selection of writers and researchers who are well-experienced authors, awarded students, teachers and writers. The Academia-Research writers’ team high level of writing experience, academic knowledge and research skills are guaranteed by a well-set emoluments system. With a continuous growth and development freelance writing job vacancies are always open to young gifted writers and well-experienced journalists, graduates and researchers.
OK, now let’s approach the company as a potential freelance writer.
The company describes the application process like this:
To become one of our writers you have to register on our website by filling out the registration form, once you have done this you will receive a test essay that you will be asked to complete with a couple of days, if you pass the test you will be sent a letter of congratulations and you account will be activated. To get a more detailed overview of the cooperation process go to this page
That was one side of the story. My research for the feedback from the freelance writers on Academia-Research.com has returned writers’ discussion forum with the thread titled ‘Beware of Academia Research‘:
I have written for Academia Research, in addition to several similar companies, and I have found that AR is — without a doubt — the least reliable of any company I have worked for (with the exception of Virtual Link which pays not at all).
I have been paid by Academia Research…but not everything I was owed, and not ever on time. When I signed up, they had three options of payment: wire transfer, paypal or egold. Wire transfer was expensive, so I chose paypal. By the time payday came around, they notified everyone that they were having a ‘problem’ with their paypal account, so I would need to open an egold account. So, I opened the egold account…but before I could get paid, they had attempted to pay me through paypal…………Now, wait a minute, I thought they couldn’t use paypal…But they had. The only problem was I had not finished setting up a paypal account yet, since they had said they could not use it.
I will not bore you all with the rest of the story, but it continues, and continues, and continues…
Again…although I have been paid for work by AR…they have also ripped me off on at least two occasions without grounds. I have had an infinite amount of email discussions with folks from admin at AR and have learned that it takes at least three emails before they even understand what you are talking about.
Just so everyone understands my situation and qualifications…I am currently making, on average, $1900 per month writing for research companies similar to Academia Research. I have NEVER had the first problem with any other company I write for…only AR. I no longer write for them because I believe the old saying…
If it walks like a duck…………..
The subject was very popular in the discussion: a few more members of the forums shared their unhappy experience with Academia Research.com
Summary
Freelance services, home based job opportunities… Unfortunately, much scam in this industry. If you are going to do some work for any kind of freelance site make sure that you will be paid. In fact the only way to do that is to carry out an Internet research to verify the reputation of the service in question. One-two negative feedbacks are nothing if you spot hundreds of happy ones.
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