| StudentAdvice |
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May 11, 10, 08:59AM
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PocketRadio - I am not going to comment on whether or not this site is good or not (many good sites and called scams and bad essay sites on here, and vice versa) but I will comment on plagiarism software:
WriterCheck and its originator, Turnitin, and the only plagiarism checks worth using really.
When one scans an essay, one should NOT just look at the % score. This % should be seen as a starting point: as you rightly say, the references list is all reecognised as plagiarism, as are all author names, book titles, numbers, and even common phrases and words.
Most essays will score up to 15-20% - and university staff will not even bother to check any essay that scores less than this.
If an essay does score more than 15%, an educated and trained user of plagiarism software will then look further at the parts highlighted on the essay. This may then show whole blocks of plagiarised text - which is a problem - or may well just show that paraphrasing and common phrases are being recognised as plagiarism - which is not a problem.
Only to look at a percentage score when assessing whether a text contains plagiarism is not the proper way to use the software and assess plagiarism (as I am always telling rather thick lecturers...)
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| Pocket Radio |
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May 13, 10, 09:38AM
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Thanks, Student Advice. You have been extremely helpful.
Also, phd-dissertations rewrote the parts with excessive quotations which brought a writecheck report of 8%.
I would recommend the service but I would advise perhaps giving a couple of weeks at least notice so rewrites can be done if necessary. The most important thing for anyone looking for an essay company is that phd-dissertations are not scammers.
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| StudentAdvice |
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May 13, 10, 09:51AM
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Glad to be of help PocketRadio.
Everyone here must remember that, just because one poster here and their friends calls a company a scam, that does not make it so!
Sadly, this forum is riddled with lies, libel, misinformation, posts by the disgruntled, the mad, the sad and the bad...and sacked writers...and essay site owners trying to diss their competition.
I would always advise anyone to take everything posted here with a MASSIVE pinch of salt.
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| inso |
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Jun 25, 10, 09:05AM
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Well.. I ordered with them. It took them a week to return a message that they couldn't find a writer. Granted my topic was very specific... but an entire week?! Plus I did ask them several times before the order was processed if they did have a writer available. Now I have to work overnight to write it. They really screwed me up. We'll see if they do refund my money as promised in 3-5 days. If not - http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx. :( ( Internet Crime Complaint Center)
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| WritersBeware |
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Jun 25, 10, 12:30PM
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Inso, you obviously have no clue what it takes to sift through hundreds of writers. Perhaps, they should have just assigned to you an unqualified writer and taken your money? Wake up!
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Edited by: FreelanceWriter Jun 25, 10, 01:32PM
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inso: Well.. I ordered with them. It took them a week to return a message that they couldn't find a writer. Granted my topic was very specific... but an entire week?! Plus I did ask them several times before the order was processed if they did have a writer available. Now I have to work overnight to write it. They really screwed me up. We'll see if they do refund my money as promised in 3-5 days.
We writers are always "available" because this is what we do for a living, but we aren't hanging on hooks waiting to be plucked for specific assignments and we don't get any work "assigned" to us. The company maintains an online bulletin board-type of thing on a secure server to which we have access. All the available orders are listed with their specs, due dates, requirements, etc. Once the order is posted, it stays there unless or until someone chooses to take the order. If nobody takes your order, you get a full refund issued.
The company has no way of magically knowing when (or whether) any writer will take your particular paper. Some papers may stay up for days until someone decides to write them the day before they're due. If the topic is very obscure or difficult, the company often increases the payout (out of their end) to encourage us to take it; they have also contacted me personally to ask whether I'm available for certain papers and I'm sure they do they same with their other long-time, high-quality, high-volume writers who get many requests, like Pheelyks. We may not necessarily take every specific request either, but we try to take as many as possible. In that case, the orders get opened up to other writers after a few hours.
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| WRT |
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Jun 25, 10, 02:32PM
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inso: They really screwed me up.
How? Because they didn't force your order on one of your writers or because they didn't randomly `assign' it to just about anybody?
FreelanceWriter: The company has no way of magically knowing when (or whether) any writer will take your particular paper.
In the absence of such magical powers, the company is fraudulent!
FreelanceWriter: we aren't hanging on hooks waiting to be plucked for specific assignments
Why ever not?!
Customers - none are in a position to `force' orders upon writers and whether you believe it or not, most try to get your orders done. If writers refuse an order, all a legit company can do is issue a refund. The scammers would have allowed any to pick up your order and botch it up. As for refunds, forget it ...
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| capntrips |
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Feb 8, 11, 08:26PM
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Ok so I looked over the boards here for a week and came to the conclusion PhD-Dissertations.com was the one to try. Yes I know no one here would advocate for any specific service but the positive feedback i saw regarding this service was enough to convince me to slap down my tax refund. I had a horrible assignment and combined with a pathetic personal life situation gave me plenty of excuses to not complete my assignment. In panic mode I ordered my paper had it delivered a night early. I paid a good deal of money but considering what the class would cost to retake and the time involved i didn't think it was a bad investment. I am happy to report my paper was delivered two hours early It is a dream come true. I will use them again. The paper is professionally done I did have to tweak it a little to fit the required format but in the end OH YES I am pleased.
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| stu4 |
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Feb 8, 11, 09:31PM
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For information of the unaware newbies Phd-dissertations.com is the subsibary of EssayTown.com. Pheelyks, please confirm :h
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Feb 8, 11, 10:20PM
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capntrips: Ok so I looked over the boards here for a week and came to the conclusion PhD-Dissertations.com was the one to try. Yes I know no one here would advocate for any specific service but the positive feedback i saw regarding this service was enough to convince me to slap down my tax refund. I had a horrible assignment and combined with a pathetic personal life situation gave me plenty of excuses to not complete my assignment. In panic mode I ordered my paper had it delivered a night early. I paid a good deal of money but considering what the class would cost to retake and the time involved i didn't think it was a bad investment. I am happy to report my paper was delivered two hours early It is a dream come true. I will use them again. The paper is professionally done I did have to tweak it a little to fit the required format but in the end OH YES I am pleased.
What was the topic?
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| Alias_8602 |
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Feb 24, 11, 01:45PM
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Pocket Radio: I would recommend the service but I would advise perhaps giving a couple of weeks at least notice so rewrites can be done if necessary. The most important thing for anyone looking for an essay company is that phd-dissertations are not scammers.
Good to know, I've been referred to them after getting in contact with SNR's costume service, I don't understand the affiliation between those two but they seemed confident that their writers were up to task of tackling my essay title, after I had send them a criteria of what I was expecting, which was a confident boost.
Pocket Radio: I didn't like the fact I had to pay in advance at all as I didn't know who was writing it or what I was getting in return, or if I would be scammed The price seemed to compare with other websites, i.e, very expensive 32 dollars per page if required within 1-3 days. Its nearly half that if you have more than 30days.
This something that bothers me also, I hope to get in contact with them again and see what say, however my deadline isn't due until a month so the price seems fair but I won't be able to justify the price until I receive the work.
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Edited by: FreelanceWriter Feb 25, 11, 11:35AM
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I also explained to Alias privately that it's not a topic likely to be taken by a writer without the right background to do it properly.
Don't bother them with questions about why payment is in advance. That's standard in the industry. At least with us, you'll really get your essay or a full refund if nobody can do it properly.
On the topic of leaving time for rewrites: It's actually much more important for you to explain what you need accurately and fully initially. We (writers) have to do rewrites anytime we screw up or don't follow your order specs. However, the vast majority of rewrite requests are cases where (1) the customer realizes only after the fact what he/she left out of the initial order, or (2) the customer likes the work but asks for some editorial changes that were never in the original order.
These essays aren't an ongoing collaborative project where the writer works back and forth with the customer after the work is already written as per the order specs. If we screw something up, you always get a rewrite; but if you just realize after the fact that you'd prefer more or less focus on some particular part of the essay, you'll get a polite response that we don't do rewrites for that kind of thing. It's no different from ordering food in a restaurant: If you ask for rare and you get well-done, you get a new steak. If you just ask for a "steak" and it comes back beautifully cooked but medium, you don't have a right to expect to get a new rare steak, much less chicken, because you realized after the steak arrived that you need to lose a little weight and should have ordered something leaner than the steak in the first place.
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| justgettingby |
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Jun 3, 11, 08:59AM
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Okay. Negative = good. Positive = bad. I got it. I tried another service. Phd-dissertations.com. So far a day and a half overdue with no response from the writer. Customer service has responded to %75 of my requests for help (three out of four requests) but their verbage indicates they outsource to unknown writers. Is it possible they are being scammed? Hmmmmmm.... Anyhow, they are leaving me in a lurch. I'm looking at another service to pick up their slack. Clocks ticking Phd-Dissertations.com -tick,tock,tick,tock...
How was that?
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| WritersBeware |
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Edited by: WritersBeware Jun 3, 11, 10:44AM
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justgettingby: How was that?
Senseless, pointless, and irrelevant; this isn't a forum for you to post your personal status updates on an order that is still in progress. If you don't want the order, email them to cancel it. Otherwise, keep your personal junk out of this forum. Your post has absolutely no place here or anywhere else.
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| justgettingby |
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Jun 6, 11, 10:53AM
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Dude, you are just one bitter individual. Here's the result. They paper never materialized. Phd-Dissertations.com jumped right on the cancelation and returned my payment post-haste. This of course is in no way a positive critique, or review of their service, as that is not allowed here or anywhere else. Scam, no, but not exactly a stellar business model either.
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| WritersBeware |
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Edited by: WritersBeware Jun 6, 11, 02:40PM
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justgettingby: Dude, you are just one bitter individual.
Dude, you are a clueless dolt who doesn't understand how a legitimate business operates.
justgettingby: Scam, no, but not exactly a stellar business model either.
You placed an order that was either unrealistic in specs/time and/or was viewed by all writers as having a poor compensation-to-hassle ratio. The company promptly refunded you. Would you have preferred that the company's owners bullsh*t a paper just to keep your money? That's how the FRAUDULENT companies with poor business models operate. Wake up.
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