| VeronicaM |
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Nov 4, 10, 03:46PM
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For those who write for essay companies, I was wondering how frequently does your work come back for rewrites?
What percentage of all completed projects come back for rewrites? And are the rewrites usually hard to do?
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| pheelyks |
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Nov 4, 10, 04:06PM
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The majority of rewrite requests I receive are when customers had expectations that they did not include in their original descriptions. These rewrite requests are incredibly easy to handle--they are not fulfilled. Once in a great while I actually screw up and fail to meet some specific detail in their instructions, and then of course they get a rewrite.
A lot of customers also request rewrites a week or more after they received their order, usually with comments like, "my instructor told me to change x, y, and z...". These rewrite requests are also not fulfilled, and the customer is informed that they are guilt of plagiarism.
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| VeronicaM |
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Nov 4, 10, 04:08PM
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So, I guess that you don't receive too many rewrite requests?
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| rustyironchains |
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Edited by: rustyironchains Nov 4, 10, 04:19PM
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some companies are better about rewrites than others. I don't mind doing them for half or even free, if I misunderstand the original instructions-- it happens occasionally. however, a lot of clients just want free pages. quality companies know when to say "no" to pushy, demanding customers, and are thus able to support and help their writers.
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| Major |
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Nov 5, 10, 12:02AM
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Most of the times it's up to the writer to decide if a revision (free or paid) is justifiable or not.
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| pheelyks |
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Nov 5, 10, 12:39AM
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Major: Most of the times it's up to the writer to decide if a revision (free or paid) is justifiable or not.
and if it ins't, you're working for a sh*tty company.
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| jwolfe2 |
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Nov 5, 10, 12:45AM
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i hate getting sent stuff back from a nit picking teacher who feels it is her job to find fault in everything to help the student improve. customers who don't communicate the instructions properly and then complain drive me insane too. they usually get the cold shoulder.
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Edited by: FreelanceWriter Nov 5, 10, 01:04AM
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If we screw up, we fix it for free. When you write about 1,000 papers a year, you make a few mistakes once in a while. I once wrote a really good 15-pg paper for a client but it was on the wrong topic. Had to write it all over again from scratch. He was eventually able to use both of them and paid me for them both, which was very decent of him because I'd never have known if he hadn't told me. If you screw up in the way you ordered it, we will do our best to fix it, but it's the same as when you decide you'd like another few pages added after the fact: no problem, but you pay for it, obviously.
I once had a business client ask me for a piece of work on CRM stuff. He sent me a white paper on a similar topic full of his notes where he wanted me to do it differently, etc. About a week after it was done we were talking on the phone and he said something that caused me to respond that if he wanted that piece for the purpose he just explained (for the first time), he needed an entirely different piece of writing. He expected me to redo it and I couldn't get him to understand that it was exactly the same as ordering a meal, eating it, and then telling the chef that you're a vegan and expecting him to re-cook an entire meal because the first one wasn't vegan. That's why he's no longer a client.
Basically, with company papers, we get an automatic rewrite notice on our calendar of pending papers anytime the customer submits a rewrite request. If it's a legit request and we forgot something that was in the order or we made some other mistake, we fix it ASAP and submit it to the system. However, that's the case only about 10-20% of the time. Usually, customers think "rewrite" means they can ask us to "fix" stuff when they change their minds about the original order, or when they forgot to include it in the order, or when they chose to violate company TOS and submit the paper for credit and then expect us to "fix" anything pointed out by their professors because they only got an A- or a B or whatever. Sometimes, they ask for rewrites because they say it sounds "too good" and is above their academic level. If you specify in your order that you need a high school freshman level paper (etc), we do try to accommodate, but otherwise, we can't delete those rewrite requests fast enough. Personally, I find that it takes me longer to write in simpler language than to just write stuff the way it comes out of my mind.
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| rustyironchains |
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Nov 5, 10, 06:33AM
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FreelanceWriter: Personally, I find that it takes me longer to write in simpler language than to just write stuff the way it comes out of my mind
roflmao
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| rustyironchains |
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Nov 5, 10, 06:36AM
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jwolfe2: . customers who don't communicate the instructions properly and then complain drive me insane
right!
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Nov 5, 10, 01:48PM
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Stop bragging.
Obviously, writing at a high school freshman level is perfectly natural to you.
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