Pro-Essay-Writer.com Review [64/100]

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Is Pro-Essay-Writer.com a legit writing service? Do they offer reasonable prices? According to their website, they offer a 100% original papers written by only native writers and supported by a money-back guarantee. This review will show you whether this is true or not and whether the company sticks to its promises.

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Criteria #1: Range of Writing Services Offered (Mark - 8/20)

We have found no list of writing services on the website. You can use the price calculator to see the cost of your order, but the price does not depend of the type of academic paper. On the website, we found mention of essays, book reviews and case studies services, while on the ordering page there is also a choice between term papers, research papers and book reports. Additionally, they offer editing and proofreading services.
The academic levels for which they offer these services are high school, college, university, Masters and PhD.

Criteria #2: Pricing, Discounts & Payment Policy (Mark - 16/20)

Pro-Essay-Writer gives you the opportunity of choosing one of the top 10 writers for your assignment, but choosing this option comes with almost double cost. Otherwise, the prices of this company are relatively low.

The discounts of this company are 10% for orders over $300 and 5% for orders over $100. We have found no discount code for first-time offers.

Criteria #3: Quality Evaluation (Mark - 10/20)

The samples on the website are good, but the paper we received from this service did not fit the level we ordered it for. We paid for a Master's paper, but the content looked more as if it was for an undergraduate student. The research was thorough, but the sources were not trustful, which is not something that should happen with an MA assignment. Additionally, the writing style was a little unsuitable for Master's level.

Criteria #4: Customer Support (Mark - 16/20)

This is not a scam company since it also offers a 24/7 customer service that customers can reach on e-mail, via the online form, on Skype and via the live chat. We have received a prompt answer on the live chat, but the answers we got were a bit vague and incomplete, so we decided to try out the other methods. The e-mail option is not 24/7 since we got a reply 6 hours later. However, their phone number was answered immediately and we got the answer we needed. In general, the customer service is good, but needs some improvement in terms of live chat and e-mail.

Criteria #5: Customers Reviews (Mark - 14/20)

Maggie:

“A good one, but not one of my favorite services. I got a good price, but they only offer me discounts for big orders and my assignments are usually essays. No paper is over 30 pages, so I have no shot at getting a lower price.

Jack:

“The prices are very good, but I would appreciate a first-order discount. I was even more frustrated because the essay I received was not very good. It had mistakes and did not look like someone took the time to write it. I would not recommend this service.”

Paul:

“Money-back guarantee? Not really! My paper was so bad I did not even ask for revisions. They said I have to send it for revision before I ask a money back guarantee. The second one I received was a little bit less horrible than the first one, but they asked me to send it for revision again. I am a student and I am on a deadline, so I did not have the time to do all this.”

Meredith:

“I loved my review, it was so thorough and inviting. A bit too positive, but my professor liked it. The price was good, too.”

Conlcusion: Pro-Essay-Writer.com has an informative website and the pricing is good, but the feedback is not really positive. People have expressed many concerns regarding quality and guarantees.

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Pro-Essay-Writer.com Review

Written by: Kelvin Fogarty

Service

Date published: 11/30/2016

6.4 / 10 stars

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Six Tips for a Great Dean's Honor Scholarship

President Fitts displays his DHS project 

For this blog, I went straight to the best source on all things DHS. Leila Labens, our Director of Strategic Recruitment, is taking over today to give you her best tips for a great DHS project. And she would know- she leads the committee that selects the finalists before they head to the Deans of each school. Let's do this!

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Leila Labens, today's guest blogger 

It’s almost early December which means it’s almost one of my favorite part of the admission cycle – seeing the wonderful, brilliant, creative, expressive DHS projects come through the door (mostly figuratively, but sometimes literally). I’ve participated in the committee that gives the first review on all of the projects for a number of years and I wanted to share some tips on putting together a strong project.

• Don’t get too caught up on “the box.” The actual box does not need to be part of the project. It can be but doesn’t have to be. So, if you can’t move past an idea that is strictly square in shape or message, I encourage you to “think outside of the box.” (Sorry, I couldn’t resist). 

• Don’t completely ignore “the box.” I know- I just told you don’t get hung up on it BUT you should also have some reference to a square or box or something somewhere in your submission. Think figuratively (the box that defines you). Think big (the square façade of a building). Think tiny (pixels that make up a larger picture). Think logically (the mathematical area of the box as part of a larger equation that proves why you should get the scholarship). Think historically (an American history rap that mentions famous boxes throughout time- square stages where famous addresses were delivered, chests/boxes of tea in Boston Harbor, voting booth check boxes…) Think literally (hundreds of post-its that turn into an incredible flip storybook).

• Express yourself. Take this as an opportunity to tell us about yourself. Maybe incorporate an artistic passion, or a skill for computer programming. You could use this as a chance to show off your ability to write an incredible screen play or as a vehicle to show your drive for service and your community. Help us know more about your without making the project completely about yourself. Think of this as a “humble brag,” a way to introduce yourself beyond just pictures documenting your accomplishments. 

• Include some semblance of something academic. After all, this is the Dean’s Honor Scholarship- meaning some very bright members of the Tulane faculty and community (ahem, Deans) will be selecting the final recipients. This doesn’t mean you can’t be creative, humorous, or have fun while working on your project. Just remember to show off some of your impressive brain power in the process.

• Put some time into it. After seeing hundreds of projects, it can become obvious which ones were thrown together in a hurry to meet our deadline. Have a plan in mind and give yourself enough time to submit a well thought out and seamlessly produced project.

• Be proud of it. If you aren’t excited about your submission and didn’t enjoy working on it, the multiple reviewers may not be thrilled by it either. Do something that you would be excited to show your classmates, family, and friends.

One last technical point: if you opt to put something together online, make sure you are using a platform or host site that can be accessed by different computers across different networks.

We always get plenty of video submissions, so here are some of the best of those:

Gabreilla Runnels 

Evan Doomes from Louisiana 

Jacob Morris from Colorado 

Rebekah Oviatt from Washington 

Now get to boxin!

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MyAssignmentHelp.com Review [61/100]

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MyAssignmentHelp.com is yet another Indian "Australian" service that offers assignment help to students. According to its website, this company has three core values: top quality work, on time delivery and affordable prices. This review is aimed to help you determine whether this is a legit or scam service and whether they are true to what they promise.

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Criteria #1: Range of Writing Services Offered (Mark - 17/20)

MyAssignmentHelp offers quite a wide range of assignment help, including essay and dissertation writing, homework help, case study help, coursework help, thesis writing, programming and MBA assistance. What we found strange regarding their services is that they offer assistance to people from various countries such as New Zealand, Malaysia, China etc. Considering that this is an Australian service, is the provider really able to deliver top quality content to people that study in different countries? After all, education varies across countries and if you offer such wide range of services everywhere, you need to have a variety of experts who can make this happen.

Criteria #2: Pricing, Discounts & Payment Policy (Mark - 10/20)

The website of the company is very poor in content, so you will not find any information about the prices there. The only way to get some information on how much a service would cost is if you provide them with your personal details first. Considering that many students look around before choosing an affordable service for their assignments, this is a real waste of time.

We have found no discount code options, coupons or special offers that reduce the price on the website. There is no indication of first-order discounts or special prices for returning customers, which is quite disappointing.

Criteria #3: Quality Evaluation (Mark - 13/20)

In order to check the quality of service, we have first checked the samples on the website. Myassignmenthelp.com has a full Samples page where you can find some quality content. We found their samples to be well written, factual and correctly referenced.

The next step was to place an order with the service. The price was average when compared to those of other services, which would be good if the content were of high quality. The delivered paper was generally good. Still, we found some grammatical syntax mistakes in the content.

Criteria #4: Customer Support (Mark - 12/20)

The company can be reached via live chat, trough their contact form or on the phone numbers. Seeing that they offer services to many countries, but they only have Australian, UK and US contact phone numbers, we have decided to try the live chat. This the best option for those who do not reside in these countries.

Unfortunately, their live chat does not function too well, mostly because we had to wait for 7 minutes before they replied. Additionally, the representative's English was not on a professional level and all we got were short answers after a lot of waiting.

Criteria #5: Customers Reviews (Mark - 13/20)

Jimmy:

“At first, I thought this was a cheap service since that is what their website said, but the prices are not as low as one would think. Still, I decided to go for it since I already spent an hour chatting with them and logging in so that I can see the prices. They did not give me any discount as for first order and the essay was not as perfect as they promised, so I don't think I'll ever use this service again.”

Samantha:

“This service delivers good content and I am happy with how they work. But, I am a very bad writer, so I always order my papers online. Since they offer no discount for me as a regular customer, I am inclined to look for another service.”

Adnan:

“I got my essay for my English class. I study in Malaysia. It was more good than I will write it because my English is not very good, but my teacher says it was not even for C.”

Joey:

“The price is good, but they could give some first-order discount. They really need to change some things, including the people answering the phone. Not only the lady was unhelpful, she was rude when I asked for revision!”

Conlcusion: Overall, the company is valid, but not among our top choices. It is hard to reach, the website is poor in terms of information and the reviews from customers are mainly negative.

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MyAssignmentHelp.com Review

Written by: Kelvin Fogarty

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Date published: 11/29/2016

6.1 / 10 stars

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EssayPro.com Review [57/100]

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EssayPro.com is an online service that has remained on the market for a long time now, promising great quality and offering a varied range of services. We have done a thorough research based on five criteria, which serves to assist you in determining whether the company is a scam or not. Probably, yes.

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Criteria #1: Range of Writing Services Offered (Mark - 15/20)

When it comes to writing services, we can say that this company really offers a really wide range of assignments assistance, including essay writing, case studies, coursework, theses, dissertations, case studies, editing and proofreading services etc.

Still, considering that you are the one picking your own writer, there is no guarantee that that particular writer will be an expert in the assignment type you request. After all, not everyone can write great dissertations and help you with coursework. The company's policy of asking you to pick your writer limits you, since you cannot really determine who is the right expert for your order.

Our user discovered their writers' pictures are all stolen from random places around the Internet. Yes, that's true.

Criteria #2: Pricing, Discounts & Payment Policy (Mark - 12/20)

When compared to those of other services, EssayPro are affordable. The minimum price for a page is $12, which is a good price. You can check the pricing on the free calculator on the website.

Essay Pro is different from other websites in the sense that it does not offer any discounts or discount codes for bulk orders, first orders or even returning customers. So, regardless of how often you order or how big your order is, you will not be encouraged to buy here or continue ordering from the website. The lack of discount offers is a big disadvantage. Usually, good essay companies propose 15-25% first order discount.

Criteria #3: Quality Evaluation (Mark - 7/20)

We have decided to order a paper from the website, even though we do not consider this to be a clear proof of quality. After all, it all depends on the particular writer you choose, so our experience may be completely different from that of other customers.

The paper we received was relatively good, but we found the sources to be a bit unreliable. There was 23% of plagiarism and we encountered some mistakes; for the price we paid, we expected information that was more factual.

Criteria #4: Customer Support (Mark - 13/20)

We have looked for a phone number of the company or a contact form and found none. You can use their live chat if you have concerns or questions, but we had to wait for a couple minutes before the representative replied to our request.

After placing our order, we were able to send e-mails to the company. Still, it took them a lot of time to respond and their answers were short and incomplete.

Criteria #5: Customers Reviews (Mark - 10/20)

George:

“I paid a good price for my essay and got a good one. Still, I spent all the time worrying since no one answered my questions about the progress of my order. I swear, at one point, I even thought they took my money and disappeared!”

Clementine:

“The price was good even though I didn't get a discount, but I would rather go with someone that will reduce the price if I make more orders. After all, the essay was not THAT GOOD so that I would want to continue with Essaypro anyways.”

Jack:

“Well, aside from some major grammatical errors in my movie review, it was good. I must say, I really don't understand companies that hire foreigners to work on our assignments. I can clearly see that my writer was far from a native English, so they could at least hire someone who is fluent.”

Christian:

“The writer missed my deadline! The first time, he delivered on time, but the revision was a day late. I had to revise my already bad essay on my own an hour before going to school because they did not care about my deadlines. Why send the essay after you've missed my deadline?”

Conlcusion: Overall, we are looking at writing service that offers middle range prices for low quality papers of any type. Still, considering that reviews vary so much, you should only order if you do not mind risking the chance of picking a bad writer.

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EssayPro.com Review

Written by: Kelvin Fogarty

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Date published: 02/10/2017

5.7 / 10 stars

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Mouth to Mouth: On the importance of constrained conversation, or the art of the interview

Conversation and Empathy

“For Paul, it started with a fishing trip. For Lenny, it was an addict whose knuckles were covered in sores. Dawn found pimples clustered around her swimming goggles. Kendra noticed ingrown hairs. Patricia was attacked by sand flies on a Gulf Coast beach…” —Leslie Jamison, “The Devil’s Bait”

I’ve assigned Jamison’s 2013 essay on Morgellons disease for several semesters in an introductory creative nonfiction workshop at the university where I teach. “The Devil’s Bait” has much to teach any writer about language, structure, and voice, but it also quietly highlights the importance of interviewing as a facet of essaying and writing long-form narrative nonfiction.

As the introductory paragraph quoted above demonstrates, Jamison’s reportage on the phenomena of Morgellons disease included not just research of documents (although that was part of it), but many conversations with people who attended a Morgellons conference Jamison uses as the spine of the essay’s narrative. What Jamison pulls off in this essay is much trickier than, say, a straight journalistic report or purely immersive essay on a Morgellons conference. As she writes toward the essay’s midpoint, the essay isn’t about whether or not the disease itself is real but, rather, “about what kinds of reality are considered prerequisites for compassion” and whether or not it’s “wrong to call it empathy when you trust the fact of the suffering but not the source.”

The “characters” or people with whom Jamison introduces her piece are not just people she interviewed to gather quotes, nor are they people she interviewed in search of anecdotal stories. Her responses to their stories and what they have to say are no more important than the information the reader learns about Morgellons in the essay. Jamison’s collection on empathy requires other people in the equation—what is empathy without interaction? Although empathy is the unifying and intellectual subject of Jamison’s work, I would argue it’s also the unifying element of the interview practice itself. We learn about the world from our interactions with other people, from trying to listen and understand their lives.

Internal and External Resistance

I began teaching after more than 15 years as a journalist and newspaper editor. My students’ resistance to nonfiction seems rooted in antipathy born from the five-paragraph essay (understandable) along with aversion to the outside world (problematic). Delineations between art and fact repeatedly embedded in taxonomical discussions of the form’s genre and subgenres create false dichotomies regarding the interrogative internal and external maneuvers of the form. I say false because they do not resonate with my own experiences.

As a child, I wanted to be a detective. I blame Harriet the Spy, and possibly Charlie’s Angels, but mostly what appears to be a possibly cellular disposition toward nosiness about other people. To that end, I owned, by the time I was in grade school, a private eye kit, which included a magnifying glass and fingerprinting materials; a lie detector, which required assembling and never seemed to work to my satisfaction (I was nosy but not mechanically inclined); and business cards, courtesy of my father, which read: Julia R Goldberg, Private Eye. In grade school, I compiled dossiers on my classmates, stapling their class pictures to index cards that included information I considered pertinent. In college, I studied philosophy, pondering along with the Ancient Greeks the nature of love, friendship and truth.

While I have written stories for which interviewing was simply as a mechanism of anecdote and information, I have also come to see it as a key factor in creating both discourse (see Plato) and narrative.

Other People’s Lives

 “Bill Bradley is what college students nowadays call a superstar, and the thing that distinguishes him from other such paragons is not so much that he has happened into the Ivy League as that he is a superstar at all. For one thing, he has overcome the disadvantage of wealth.” —John McPhee, “A Sense of Where You Are”

I’m not generally that interested in basketball, or road kill, or Atlantic City, but I became interested in all of these topics, and many more, as a result of John McPhee’s essays. Although “A Sense of Where You Are” (The New Yorker, 1965) only quotes Bradley lightly (and mostly on the topic of basketball), the profile itself is filled with the narrative arc of Bradley’s life—a profile of a man McPhee describes as singularly disciplined—built on the information and stories McPhee garnered from his subject. Moreover, it is essayistic in its author’s insistence in understanding not just its subject but its subject’s subject: perseverance. Through his internal exploration, McPhee pushes basketball off the court of nonfiction into more metaphoric realms.

A master journalist and practitioner of creative nonfiction, McPhee noted, in an April 2010 interview with the Paris Review, that he is “interested in people who are expert at something, because they’re going to lead me into some field, teach it to me, and then in turn I’m going to tell others about it.” To a degree, both McPhee and Jamison’s work are a reminder to reconsider the old adage of “write what you know.” Writing what other people know means learning what they know and, thus, knowing it yourself—their stories then become a part of your own storytelling.

Writer Mike Sager has a theory “of reporting like old fashioned dating, where there’s a set of decorum and ways of dealing with people and looking at them and paying attention to them.” Sager says along the years he’s also added “a bit of ministering. I feel like when you listen to them and listen well and listen without judgment in the moment, in a way you’re providing sort of ministerial function.”

Sager’s approach isn’t based on its being the best way of “getting” a story or quote; he says it’s also “as close as I can come to finding something that we’re actually giving back to the people that we take our stories from.” Valuing his subjects is important, Sager says, “because without our subjects we don’t have a story, and I’m deeply cognizant of that at all times.”

Sager also points out that unlike information in document form, people “don’t have the obligation to tell you what’s inside of them. We have to go the extra mile to get it, because ultimately that’s what we want to know.”

Conversation as Container

In the classroom, students interview under false pretenses, as part of a classroom exercise that may or may not lead to actual writing. Just as a received form writing provides a constraint on the page, the interview process creates a container for conversation. I watch them engage, open up, listen to one another. I tell them to interview one another. I have them interview themselves.

In a classroom in Mexico City, I watch from across the room as two students begin to cry toward the end of one such exercise. I walk over and ask them what’s wrong. They tell me they have just learned, after years of friendship, information about one another they never knew. I restrain myself from asking them to repeat what they’ve learned.

Others in the room tell me they fear appearing, for lack of a better word, dumb. They think they should already know the answers to their questions. They don’t want to seem rude or intrusive. I speechify on the power of curiosity. I haul out my favorite stories about annoying the shit out of Margaret Atwood during an interview and sounding like a complete moron during a discussion with Noam Chomsky.

Finally, some students want me to tell them what they should ask one another, what they should ask themselves. The conversation turns quasi-Socratic.

Ask good questions, I tell them.

What is a good question? They want to know.

Wait, wait, I know this one.

A good question is any query for which the writer authentically is interested in the answer. They should be endless.

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Adapted from Inside Story: Everyone’s Guide to Reportingand Writing Creative Nonfiction by Julia Goldberg, Leaf Storm Press, March 2017.

Julia Goldberg is a full-time faculty member in the Creative Writing Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. A professional journalist for more than 20 years, she is also a former daily radio talk-show host, as well as nonfiction editor for the literary website The Nervous Breakdown.

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