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I am looking for writers interested to work on different academic and non-academic assignments on freelance basis. We offer a lot of interesting cases on variety of subjects.

Specialists in Physics, Chemistry, Accounting, Statistics, Engineering, Finance and Management, Economics, Literature are in high demand.
We offer highly competitive compensation rates and opportunity to work on assignments you choose.

The requirements:
ü Good command of English;
ü Access to the Internet;
ü Desire to develop your writing skills;
Don’t waste your time looking for another freelance job as you have found the perfect one, apply now at [essay mill link deleteD
 
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I notice that the entire site is geared toward the writer. Where does Wizard Writers get its orders? There's nothing about that on the site or in the above copied and pasted text.

Is there a reason to keep the writer separate from the client? I realize Wizard Writers plays middle man, but this seems awfully one sided, you see? There's no other website that seems to claim affiliation, so writers can't see what site is selling the material.

All the reassurance that it's not a paper mill is, "The works you deliver to us are meant to be used as high-quality examples of proper writing. If the person who receives the work misuses it, it is not your fault."

I'm not accusing anybody here, but I am a teacher. And, as a teacher, this looks like a duck. I don't think you need any teaching cred to see that.
 
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These days more and more paper mill sites have two different ends to their business under different names. It makes the customer's fraud a little harder to detect, and the degree of dishonesty less obvious to the writers who can pretend they are making "model essays" or "study aids".
 

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I am on this! Let me go quit my job first. Wait, ok?
 

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I have no ethical issues writing for a paper mill. But, I do have reservations on whether they pay well, on time, and how their general business practices work out for the writers. Those are the concerns anyone considering this should think about.
 

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I have no ethical issues writing for a paper mill. But, I do have reservations on whether they pay well, on time, and how their general business practices work out for the writers. Those are the concerns anyone considering this should think about.

I have huge ethical issues about writing for a paper mill. It's plagiarism, cheating, deceitful, and wrong. But if you're ok with that, then you go ahead.
 

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I have huge ethical issues about writing for a paper mill. It's plagiarism, cheating, deceitful, and wrong. But if you're ok with that, then you go ahead.

It's not plagarism for the writer, assuming he creates original work.

It's not cheating for the writer either. He does the work laid out by contract according to the contract specs.

It's not deceitful for the writer either. He provides the agreed upon service to the publisher.

Now, if a student turns in the resulting paper as his own work, he's the one who's cheating, not the writer. For the writer it's a business transaction.

Personally, I have better ways to spend my writing time, and would worry a bit about the professionalism (payments, etc) of any paper mill.

But, if a paper mill acts responsibly to its writers, pays a decent wage for the work, etc., than it's a business arrangement, pure and simple.

EDIT: Do you have a similar ethical qualm about ghost writing for a corporate client when the work appears under his name, and not yours? That could be anything from speeches, to newspaper columns by "him," to a whole book. If not, why not?
 
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It's not plagarism for the writer, assuming he creates original work.

It's not cheating for the writer either. He does the work laid out by contract according to the contract specs.

It's not deceitful for the writer either. He provides the agreed upon service to the publisher.

Now, if a student turns in the resulting paper as his own work, he's the one who's cheating, not the writer. For the writer it's a business transaction.

It's more than just a business transaction. It's knowingly participating in cheating.

Personally, I have better ways to spend my writing time, and would worry a bit about the professionalism (payments, etc) of any paper mill.

But, if a paper mill acts responsibly to its writers, pays a decent wage for the work, etc., than it's a business arrangement, pure and simple.

If a paper mill is happy to help others cheat, it might well be happy to cheat you out of your fee. When ethics are slack in one area they're likely to be slack in others.

EDIT: Do you have a similar ethical qualm about ghost writing for a corporate client when the work appears under his name, and not yours? That could be anything from speeches, to newspaper columns by "him," to a whole book. If not, why not?

I've ghostwritten several books and no, that's not the same as plagiarism, and it's not cheating.

There are huge differences between ghostwriting and plagiarism. The biggie is that no one's going to get a qualification off the back of a ghostwritten book. You get a degree based on plagiarism? You're not qualified. You get a job because of that degree? You're not qualified to do that job safely or effectively.

Take a look at the subjects requested by the OP in this thread:

Physics, Chemistry, Accounting, Statistics, Engineering, Finance and Management, Economics, Literature

Do you really think it's ok to help people cheat in order to qualify as accountants? Would you want them doing your accounting for you? Would you be happy to cross a bridge designed by an engineer who hadn't really qualified as an engineer? Would you be happy taking medications which an unqualified chemist had worked on?
 

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Now, if a student turns in the resulting paper as his own work, he's the one who's cheating, not the writer. For the writer it's a business transaction.

Under some circumstances, in some states, writing for an essay mill is considered an act of fraud because the writer is an accessory to the student's act of fraud.


https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0153.pdf

Moreover, anyone who writes for a paper mill is a morally repugnant in the extreme.

Victoria Strauss has written about the problems of writing for an essay mill.

Finally, advocating writing for an essay mill on this site is not going to fly.

This isn't up for discussion, debate, or asinine posturing.
 
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