Monday, July 7, 2008

Prescription for a Great Essay - Why Aren't all Students Getting As?

If essay writing were as easy as professors sometimes pretend it is then every student should be getting an A on every assignment. But we all know that isn’t going to happen. However, there are a number of reasons that students do poorly on essays, and understanding these can help you to avoid common mistakes and turn in essays that will get you noticed and get you the grade you deserve.

There are three major mistakes students make in essays:

1. They don’t read the course material, so they aren’t making connections to course content and material. This is a major problem because it tells your instructor that you don’t care about the work.
2. They don’t follow the assignment. You’d be surprised how many students never read the assignment and don’t pay any attention to what the instructor is looking for.
3. They don’t know how to write. If the instructor can’t understand what you’re saying, you will get a bad grade no matter how good you think your ideas are.

So, if these are the three major things to avoid, what should you be doing? What’s the prescription for a great essay? Easy—do the opposite of the “don’t” list!

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Read the material. Know the course content, understand the textbooks, and be able to draw from the readings to give examples and refer to theories. Show the instructor that you pay attention and are actively involved in learning.
2. Know the assignment. Focus on addressing the question. Be sure that what you write reflects the question the instructor wants you to write about. Don’t go off in other directions. Stick with the topic and answer the question.
3. Get help expressing your ideas clearly. If you have trouble writing clearly or organizing your essays, seek help to make your essays understandable. When your instructor can read your essay and understand what it’s saying, you’ll be that much closer to the grade you deserve.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Best Way for Students to Get Scholarships?

Scholarships…where to start? Sure, there are athletic scholarships and academic scholarships. Everybody knows about these. But did you know that there are scholarships available for left-handed students? Red-headed students? Minority students with disabilities? No? Well, you should. While there is often heated competition for the big-name athletic and merit-based scholarships, specialty scholarships sometimes often go unclaimed. You could get one just by being the only person to apply!

One of the best ways to find out about scholarships is to look at the organizations you or your parents or grandparents belong to. Often, businesses, churches, and community organizations have scholarships for deserving young people. For example, a friend of mine won a scholarship from his father’s labor union for children of union members. Another friend I knew won a scholarship for speaking an obscure foreign language.

Another great resource to find scholarships is the school you are attending. Your high school guidance counselor probably has a fat file of scholarships and can help you figure out which ones you qualify for. I know that when I went to college, my guidance counselor was really helpful in identifying some government scholarships I’d never heard of, but which earned me thousands of dollars. If you’re already in college, your school’s office of financial aid can point you in the right direction.

You can also try looking online for scholarships, though it’s important to remember that not every scholarship online is for real. Make sure the offer comes from a trusted site, and don’t trust any offer that asks you to send money, a credit card number, or a Social Security or personal ID number.

No matter where you look, you’re bound to find a number of scholarships waiting for you. All you need to do is apply… The hardest part is writing the application essay to get the money flowing in!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Introducing ThePaperExperts.com Frequent Buyers Program

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Introducing ThePaperExperts.com Referral Offer: Earn $20 for Referring a New Client to Our Service!

It’s an exciting time at the ThePaperExperts.com. We’re introducing a new referral offer that we’re sure you’re going to like. On March 1, we began a new Referral Service that puts $20 into your account every time you refer a friend to us and that friend places an order. That’s all you have to do…recommend a friend, get $20 in your account.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Writing Term Papers - The Writer's Experience

I thought it would be a good idea to let our readers in on the mind of one of our writers -how they see the process of writing model academic term papers and essays. Here is what one of our writers had to say:

Filling Out a Blank Page

For a writer there is never just a “blank” page. There is a page that needs to be filled with ideas to fit the subject and expand it. They say that Michelangelo was asked how he created his exquisite sculptures. He said that they were already in the block of stone or granite and he just had to chisel the rest away to reveal them.

There is a vast difference between writing your own thoughts and creating ideas that will help someone you don’t know; someone probably much younger, not as experienced or maybe not as patient with getting something “just so”. When you begin writing you need a little information to make the essay more useful to the individual seeking the help. It starts with the subject, the class, the deadline, the length, maybe even knowing which parts should be covered and which shouldn’t. Understanding the student’s background is helpful in shaping the ideas in the paper. I may be an ultra-conservative but the client might be a liberal or from a particular background that shapes the discussion from a different point of view. Having as much information as possible is the best start to providing an idea-rich essay or paper.

This type of writing means thinking differently. For example, writing for myself, sometimes I’ll let a sentence or a thought slide. Oh well, I might say to myself, I can always fix it later. When you’re paid to write in this scenario you can’t let things slide: punctuation, grammar, spelling, ideas that flow from one subject to the next. You have to be far more precise and accurate and willing to edit and re-write before you can be satisfied that it’s an essay that meets the quality standards The Paper Experts Inc. demands of its writers. The challenge is to slip out of your own personality and into someone else’s while writing.

Sometimes the staff at The Paper Experts Inc. write papers for ESL students. This means the writer has to spend a little more time to use words that are understandable to the person so the ideas on the page come out clear and well-defined.

As I said earlier, we start with a blank page that really is not blank. In the process, we try to become the client for a little while, to get in their mind-set. We think and plan and write and re-write to deliver a top quality idea-filled essay.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Three Easy Tricks To Help Students Brainstorm Better

Getting an essay question can be stressful, especially when you don’t know much about the topic. It can be hard to think of an original, interesting idea you can use to show how much you’ve learned in class. That’s where brainstorming comes in. The word “brainstorming” was invented in the 1930s by advertising executive Alex Faickney Osborn, but the concept of trying to think of a large number of ideas in order to pick the best one goes back much farther than that.

When you get stuck trying to think of ideas, there are a few simple tricks you can use to help you get creative.

1. Free-Association. Look at the essay question and write down the first five words that spring to mind. These need to be nouns and need to be related to the topic, so “retarded” and “stupid” don’t count! Do any of your words spark ideas? Are there connections? Can you combine your words into a more complex, interesting topic?

2. Background Research. Try plugging concepts from the essay question into Google or Wikipedia. See what you find. Actually read the article and see if anything strikes you as especially interesting or noteworthy. If so, think about whether that would make a good topic. (Note: use Wikipedia to generate ideas, but don’t use it as a source for your paper.)

3. Build on What You Know. If you already know something about the topic, think about areas you want to know more about. Try to think about how the essay topic relates to you and your experience. Writing an essay is always more fun when you’re actively engaged with the material.

Trying out a few of these tips and tricks on your next essay can help you produce more creative and engaging essays—and just possibly earn you higher grades!

Friday, January 11, 2008

We Still Focus on Quality and Customer Service Even When Offshore Term Paper Companies Focus Mainly on Price

Doing business in an industry that is wrought with fly by night services looking to cash in on students who need help without a care for the results is difficult especially when you’re competing with invisible companies. In this case the invisible companies are countless offshore companies who purport to do business out of the United States to show credibility or perhaps it can be to mask the fact they’re offshore (they show toll free numbers, fax numbers and Addresses that are either not real or really PO Boxes). Even though we have our detractors and opposition since we started our mandate is clear: to provide the best quality in any type of document from term papers to theses to dissertations.

Due to their anonymity they market their services as completely bogus services encouraging students to go against the academic code (they suggest it in different ways) handing in stuff they shouldn’t be. These businesses don’t have the students’ best interest in mind and also don’t care about running their business above board. I can see similarities of how these practices are very common in offshore companies especially when customer service matters (everyone can relate to calling a phone company and hearing an offshore employee trying to help but getting nowhere except frustration) That’s the difference between North American term paper companies and offshore term paper companies. Most of these companies rely on the premise that by offering the lowest price everything else even how it’s produced is an afterthought.

When we were competing against other North American services it was clear that students had a choice they could make where you can compare apples to apples. Since the inundation in our industry of services from Pakistan, Ukraine, Philipines (just to name a few of the culprits’ locations) I feel they’ve just come and muddied the waters and cause more confusion, normally competition means that consumers win but in this case the only one who wins is the offshore company who is essentially in my opinion “fleecing” customers by providing substandard work all the while pretending they’re actually helping. Providing super low prices is where it starts, ends and it goes downhill from there. Here are just a few of the ways these offshore companies can be snuffed out and identified:

1. No legitimate place of business in North America where you can walk in and complain or order rather in person. They focus on having many sites and relying on customers naivete. An American address may be posted but at best it’s a post box where they get their mail.

2. An absolute absurdly low price that no qualified North American Native English Speaker and Writer would work for (this ain’t a car factory where you can systemize something) it will always be a creative and a clear communicative process.

3. A company that dumps what customers order into an “work pool” where any writer who feels they can deliver it on time can pick it up and write it. Besides being less than qualified to work for a legitimate top North American service they’ll entrust a customers order to just about anyone on their roster. Remember, their focus is the bottom line and not the consumer. Matching up writer specialties with client needs is what we do best.

4. When you complain about either one of their papers being plagiarized or of being shoddy in quality you’ll get a variety of answers like:

1. They’ll get another writer to do it (How can you trust them given the ideas and words are not worth the paper their written on in our opinion).

2. They’ll even go absurdly as far as saying that it’s only supposed to be a model paper to alleviate any excuse from their hands.

3. They’ll also point out that the quality truly depends on the writer so just because we got a bad paper this time in redoing it doesn’t mean we’ll get a bad paper (in the end we did get a second paper and it was bad) I don’t know a customer that wants to play Russian roulette with their academic help … that reasoning is absolutely stupid if you ask me.

5. Their papers were plagiarized but then I told myself: what do you expect from a writer who probably didn’t go to school in our academic system or is in way over their head. It’s difficult for writers to write the type of work we do, let alone someone who may not command the English language as highly as their own clients may.

We either ended up getting our refund or getting them to redo some papers but we received the same low quality product. In the end we felt “fleeced”.

These are just a few points I’m mentioning but realistically these offshore companies purporting to run as American companies destroy the credibility of our industry. Ask a graduate or doctoral student yourself who isn’t a writer if they’d work for $2 or $3 a page – don’t expect to receive a friendly response. Customers order from their service and get a low quality product but by the time they come to us they expect to pay the same low price the irresponsible term paper writing service charged them but receive the high quality we offer our clients. We feel that’s comparing apple to oranges.

Some clear points to watch on their site that identify these offshore term paper sites:

  1. Their prices are anywhere from $7 a page to $14 a page for custom writing
  2. Their site is full of spelling and grammatical errors
  3. They’re site may contain testimonials from fake people (it’s obvious)
  4. They’re site encourages students in different ways to submit the work they order for marks
  5. When you call you these services you get eastern block accents or south asian accents (if you don’t know what these sound like just remember the last time you called your cell phone company or cable company for repairs and ended up frustrated).

How can you protect yourself from ordering from one of these offshore services? It’s simple, go to essayfraud.org to check to see if the site your planning on ordering from is on their watch list. If you suspect it is still an offshore company we suggest you submit it to essayfraud.org to protect other students from these offshore companies. I’d hate to lose business to a competitor but I’d prefer to lose it to a North American service than to an offshore company.

When you order from ThePaperExperts.com you get accountability, you can speak to a manager if you’re not happy with the service you received or the paper in any way. We work hard to resolve any and every matter. If you want to place your order over the phone you can do so by calling our toll free number 1-888-774-9994 or email our staff at support@tpehome.com. No matter what you compare always remember you must compare apples to apples so as to compare services fairly rather than cherry pick one item and completely disregard another.