Online Writing Jobs: Due Diligence
I had applied to be a writer for an online company that provided writing services. After some research, I discovered that there was no legitimiate business beyond providing essays to college students, which I think is a deplorable practice.
Because of how easy it is for an online publisher (blogger) like myself to have their online resources taken offline without due legal process, I’ll refrain from publishing the name of the company. Please contact me via e-mail if you are curious.
The following is my letter to them.
I have reconsidered my willingness to participate in what I have discovered to be the defrauding of the educational system, and I will not be submitting an essay on William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning.”I have done some research on exactly what your company does, and I am disappointed. As the recipient of a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature, I find it despicable that you enable students to cheat on their assignments by providing them with cheap essays with which to dupe their instructors. I earned my degree honestly, writing all of my own papers. Anyone who utilizes your service to misrepresent their writing and analytical skills is a cheat and a fraud.
I have also learned that writers for your company are commonly told that their essays were plagiarised, or do not fit the requirements you gave them — claims with no basis in truth. The assumption is that your company usually passes the essays along to its customers regardless and pockets all of the money for the assignment instead of paying the writer their deserved portion.
I understand my response will not change your company’s activities one whit, but writing an essay for you on the morality of fighting against an authority that practices thievery and vandalism (reference the short story you assigned me, “Barn Burning”) would have been the ultimate in irony and hypocrisy.
Regards.
Beware of any online job offers; the easier it sounds, the more shady they are likely to be.