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14 Best College Essay Services for 2024 (40 Services Reviewed)

Research conducted by Emily Kierkegaard , PhD, and expert-reviewed by Kevin Wong, PrepMaven Co-founder

Not sure which college application essay coaching and editing service is the best? We compared the top 40 services, created in-depth reviews for 14 of them, and narrowed it down to the 4 best that will help guide you through the process of writing amazing college application essays.

What is the Best College Essay Service?

PrepMaven – best college application essay service overall
College Essay Mentor – best for individual consultants
The College Essay Guy – best for unlimited essay assistance
College Vine – best of the big platforms

The best of the rest:

Individual essay consultants:

College Essay Editor – small editing team
Allison Karpf – former English teacher helping students
Your College Vision – former journalist with more affordable rates
The College Guru – good on paper but unresponsive
Sofia Zapiola – budget-friendly application assistance

Mid-size teams:

Lotus Learning – focus on health sciences

Large platforms:

Study Point – larger platform with mystery editors
Ivy Select – larger platform with mystery editors
Empowerly – larger platform with mystery editors
BeMo – expensive and aggressive with wrong expertise

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Best College Application Essay Services in 2024

#1 – prepmaven.

Our Verdict — Best College Essay Assistance Overall Price: $79–349/hour (minimum $510 package) PrepMaven’s one-on-one college essay assistance is the best option overall. Founded by brothers and Princeton grads Greg and Kevin, almost all of PrepMaven’s essay coaches have Ivy-League experience, primarily from Princeton and Harvard. All essay coaches also undergo a thorough training program in PrepMaven’s methods, developed by professional writers with deep understanding of the college admissions process, for helping students to discover the most compelling stories for their essays. Unlike other services, PrepMaven offers college essay assistance at several different price points. At the most accessible rate, students can work with current Ivy-League undergraduates who specialize in writing and have recently aced the college application process. At higher rates, students can work with coaches who are both Ivy-League grads and professional writers (screenwriters, journalists, editors) with many years of experience helping students to craft compelling essays. Interested students can even work directly with founders Greg and Kevin, who have over 15 years of experience helping students through the entire essay-writing process. PrepMaven’s services combine many of the best features of other good options into one, and it’s hard to beat their experience.

Any student wanting college essay help, at any point in the process, with a range of budgets.

At a glance:

Cost: $79–349/hour (minimum $510 package)
Writing coach qualifications: Princeton graduates and professional writers (or current Princeton students); all trained

What we like:

Ivy League experience —most of their writing coaches are Princeton grads or current students, with some from Harvard and other Ivies
Different pricing options to meet different families’ circumstances
More flexible and greater capacity to take on new students compared to individual consultants

#2 – College Essay Mentor

Our Verdict — Best of the Individual Consultants Price: unknown but high Some college essay consulting services consist of just one expert. Of these individual essay consultants, Chris Hunt at College Essay Mentor is our favorite. He combines writing experience as a journalist for the Economist and the Wall Street Journal with personal experience as a graduate of Dartmouth. However, he only works with a small number of students each year, and students need to apply to work with him — he only accepts students with top grades and test scores who are already strong applicants for top schools. Chris offers the option for one-time written feedback, but this only gives big-picture generalizations. (And written-only feedback is always limited.) In order for help with the essay process, students need to purchase a complete essay package.

Students with top grades and test scores who want to work with a one-person business, who have a sizable budget, and who are ready to get started early.

Cost: $210 for a one-time written essay feedback (big picture only), then $110 per draft feedback; pricing for essay process packages unknown
Essay coach qualifications: professional journalist, Dartmouth grad
Professional writing experience as a journalist
Extensive experience working with college applicants
Partners with Debra Felix, former Director of Admissions at Columbia, for full application review

What we don’t like:

One-on-one work is limited to very high-achieving students, who need to apply with a resume : “I limit my one-on-one work to students who I believe will be strong applicants to elite universities. As a rule, this means having high grades in challenging classes, a test score of ACT 34+ or SAT 1500+, and substantial activities outside of the classroom.”
Works with a limited number of students (60 per year), so often no availability
All-or-nothing packages don’t allow students to work with Chris for just a few hours or for part of the essay-writing process
Secretive about pricing (he’ll only give pricing details once he’s reviewed the student’s resume and agreed to work with them), but we expect the minimum cost of working one-on-one to be several thousand dollars

#3 – The College Essay Guy

Our Verdict — Best for Unlimited Essay Assistance Price: $4900 for application to 3 schools, $8050 for application for 10 schools We’re fans of Ethan Sawyer, the original “college essay guy”— his book, College Essay Essentials , is a great guide to the essay-writing process. Ethan doesn’t work directly with many students these days, but he now has a team of consultants who help students follow his principles. Their assistance is really all-or-nothing — they prefer to work with students from the very beginning of the process, and their minimum package is $4900, which includes assistance with essays for three schools. If students are applying to ten schools (a more realistic number for students aiming at competitive colleges), the fee is a hefty $7400.

Students who want unlimited help through the entire process, who have a sizable budget.

Cost: $4900 (supplemental essays for 3 schools) – $7400 (supplemental essays for 10 schools)
Essay coach qualifications: mix of Ivy grads and former teachers, some writers/screenwriters; all trained
Great free resources about the essay-writing process
Their Matchlighters Scholars Program gives back to the community by providing admissions consulting for select qualifying students
All-or-nothing packages have a high minimum fee and don’t work for students who want just a few hours of feedback or help with just part of the process

#4 – College Vine

Our Verdict — Best of the Big Platforms Price: $140–180/hour There are plenty of large platforms with large stables of part-time tutors and coaches available to work with students. Of these big platforms, we think CollegeVine has the best offerings. Compared to other large companies, CollegeVine provides more information about their tutors, and students can pick individual tutors to work with from their roster. However, this model is really just a way of finding individual tutors to hire. Tutors don’t receive any training and don’t share a common approach, so it’s a mixed bag. Their rates are fairly high for part-time tutors who don’t have specific expertise and training in college essay consulting. Because CollegeVine is really just a marketplace where individual tutors can find students, the quality and price will vary widely.

Students who want to work with a big company, or those who want a quick session or two to go over their essays.

Cost: Typically $140–180/hour
Essay coach qualifications: no specific qualifications, but a few are Ivy League graduates
Possible to select individual editors to work with from their roster.
Easy to schedule ad-hoc sessions with a tutor through the website.
No training or common approach for tutors
Editors are part-time , with no option to work with full-time college admissions experts
Relatively expensive for this level of expertise

College Essay Editing Alternatives (that Didn’t Make the Cut)

Individual essay consultants, #5 – college essay editor.

Our Verdict — Small Editing Team Price: Roughly $5,950 for applications to 10 schools College Essay Editor comprises two graduates of Stanford. This means that they have personal experience applying to highly competitive schools. One member of the team also has a college counseling certification, which is a good background for college essays. Based on their website, they appear to focus on the editing and proofreading phase of the essay-writing process. This can be helpful to students, but we recommend working with a service who can help students to uncover their values and brainstorm really great material that allows them to really shine—and if this doesn’t happen at the beginning of the process, it’s much harder to add in later on.

Cost: $195/1000 words for proofreading, $495/1000 words for 3 rounds of editing and proofreading, or $595/1000 words for unlimited rounds of editing and proofreading; for the purposes of comparison, complete applications to 10 competitive colleges would be around 9,650 words, or $5950.
Writing coach qualifications: Stanford graduates, one of whom has college counseling certification
Editors are graduates of Stanford University , and one is a member of NACAC, the national association of college counselors
They focus on editing and proofreading only , not on the crucial earlier steps of brainstorming and strategy
Small team with very limited availability
All asynchronous editing so you won’t be able to cultivate a real relationship with your essay coach.

#6 – Allison Karpf

Our Verdict — Former English Teacher Helping Students Price: $385/hour or $3850 package for application to one school Another option for students looking to hire an individual consultant is Allison Karpf. Allison is a former high school English teacher and a graduate of UC Berkeley who also holds a Masters of Education from Stanford. Her rates are definitely on the higher side, especially for someone who doesn’t have a professional writing background, but she does have extensive experience working with students to craft their essays.

Cost: $385/hour or $3850 unlimited counseling (includes supplemental essays for one college)
Essay coach qualifications: former high school English teacher; Berkeley grad, Stanford MEd
Lots of experience helping students improve their college essays
Very quick to respond to client requests
No professional writing experience or Ivy-Plus undergraduate experience
High rates relative to other options
Limited availability , since she works alone

#7 – Your College Vision

Our Verdict: Former Journalist with More Affordable Rates Price: $180/hour, or packages starting from $3500 Laurie Lande is another individual consultant who helps students through the essay-writing process. She comes recommended by other consultants like Chris from College Essay Mentor . Laurie did not herself attend a highly competitive school, so she doesn’t have that personal experience of going through the selective admissions process, but she does have a professional writing background as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.

Cost: $180/hour or packages starting at $3500
Essay coach qualifications: journalism background
Affordable pricing , relative to other options
Not a graduate of a highly selective school

#8 – The College Guru

Our Verdict — Good on Paper but Unresponsive Price: unknown Yet another individual essay consultant is Geanine Thompson from The College Guru. Geanine attended Dartmouth as an undergraduate and also holds an MBA from Duke. She also has a professional writing background as an assistant book editor at Berkley Publishing Group. Like Greg and Kevin at PrepMaven , she combines experience in the business world and at Wall Street firms with experience in education.

Cost: unknown
Essay coach qualifications: former assistant book editor; Dartmouth grad, Duke MBA
Dartmouth graduate and former book editor
Not responsive to emails and client requests

#9 – Sofia Zapiola

Our Verdict — A budget-friendly, personal essay editor. Price: $80/hour Yet another individual essay consultant is Sofia Zapiola, who offers a mix of essay editing and college application counseling services.

Cost: $80/hour
Essay coach qualifications: M.A. from Harvard; certificate in College Counseling from UC San Diego.
Individual approach, budget-friendly rates, commitment to working within families’ budgets.
Very few testimonials, so it’s difficult to evaluate how effective she is.

Mid-size Teams

#10 – lotus learning.

Our Verdict — Expensive for Tutor Background Price: $165/hour Founded by a Harvard grad who is a former teacher and veteran of the publishing industry, Lotus learning offers college essay help in the Boston area. They have a small team of tutors, mostly recent grads from good but not Ivy-Plus colleges, and mostly with focus in health sciences.

Cost: $165/hour (minimum 8 hours)
Essay coach qualifications: tutors are recent grads, but not Ivy-Plus schools
Reasonable pricing with flexible packages
Essay editors aren’t graduates of Ivy-Plus schools and don’t have professional writing experience

Large platforms

#11 – study point.

Our Verdict — Larger Platform with Mystery Editors Price: Rates Between $60 and $120/hr Study Point is a larger essay editing service. They claim to have several decades of experience helping students to craft their college essays, but they do not give information about who their essay coaches are and what qualifications they might have.

Cost: $60-120/hr, depending on tutor experience
Essay coach qualifications: unknown
Larger company with several decades of experience
Unclear who the essay coaches are
Lack of statistics about their results

#12 – Ivy Select

Our Verdict — Larger Platform with Mystery Editors Price: unknown Ivy Select makes a lot of big promises on their website about having the best college essay consultants in the business, but they offer no information on who these consultants are, or on their backgrounds. They also brag that each consultant “only” works 20 students in one application cycle, but in our experience, that’s quite high.

Long list of impressive (but anonymous) testimonials
Only work with “top students”
No information on their website about who the editors are
Each essay coach works with up to 20 students at one time

#13 – Empowerly

Our Verdict — Larger Platform with Mystery Editors Price: High, from $6000/year Empowerly has over 60 college counselors who each work with an average of 5 students per year, in order to have more time to devote to each student. Their counselors come from “different educational backgrounds,” and while they do not provide specific biographical details we can assume that most of their essay coaches did not attend highly selective schools.

Cost: typically from $6000/year
Essay coach qualifications: college counselors
Counselors work with just a few students per year
You have to upgrade to “Empowerly Elite” to guarantee a counselor with a more selective educational background
No professional writing experience

#14 – Prepory

Our Verdict — Expensive but with Good Expertise Price: $325/hr Prepory is a college application and career counseling service that offers a comprehensive program for college applications at any stage of the process (including as early as 9th grade). They make a lot of impressive claims about the expertise of their coaches, but it’s quite difficult to actual find much information about their essay coach qualifications.

Cost: $325/hr
They have a comprehensive college application program that begins as early as 9th grade.
Limited information about essay coaches
High prices

Top 40 College Essay Services Considered

College Essay Editor
The College Essay Guy
College Vine
College Essay Mentor
Study Point
Allison Karpf
The College Guru
Lotus Learning
Summit Prep
Sofia Zapiola
Ivy Global / New Summits
College Essay Solutions
Your College Vision
Essay Edge*
ServicEscape*
PapersForge*
QuickWriter*
JustEditMyEssay*
JustDoMyEsssay*
ExpertWriting*
SpeedyPaper*
GradeMiners*

* A number of services will edit essays directly for students, or even write portions of the essay for students. We do not condone this. Admissions officers can tell when essays have been written or edited by adults and this can have severe consequences. We have excluded these services from our reviews.

Why are college application essays important?

Can a great college essay alone get you into Harvard?

No. You’ll need your grades, test scores, and extracurricular activities (as well as letters of recommendation and interview) to be outstanding.

But can a mediocre essay be the reason you didn’t get into Harvard?

Yes. There are thousands of amazingly-qualified students who graduate from high school each year. Great grades and test scores might be a prerequisite for admission to a competitive college, but they alone aren’t enough.

College essays are a key component of a student’s application . When done well, they transform a collection of numbers—GPA, class rank, SAT or ACT scores , number of AP classes taken, AP scores—into a glimpse of a real, individual person.

Essays do many things. Good college essays can highlight extracurricular achievements which otherwise would be overlooked in a sterile list. Strong essays often indicate the student’s future plans —how they plan to leave a mark on their college campus and on the world. They can shine a light on unique challenges that a student may have had to face on their journey.

College admissions officers only have a few minutes to spend on each application. College essays need to be original, interesting, and memorable . They need to grab the attention of the admissions officer and persuade them that this is the student out of hundreds or thousands of other similarly-qualified applicants who should be admitted.

College admissions essays are usually unlike any other kind of writing that students have done before. They’re a combination of memoir and marketing pitch, and they need to be creative but also highly strategic. That’s a tough assignment!

What’s more, students are left to figure this assignment out on their own. A thoughtful and generous high school English teacher may provide guidance or offer to read essays and give feedback, but these teachers are responsible for many students, and they’re (usually) not experts in admissions strategies.

There’s another reason college essays are especially important from 2024 on. After the recent Supreme Court decision, the application essay has become one of the main ways that you can communicate how your racial identity has affected your life.

In fact, the New York Times published an article about how important it can be for students to discuss race in their college application essays!

Why work with a college essay service?

You may want to consider a college essay service if:

You have no idea where to start in order to write your college application essays
You feel overwhelmed by all of the different ideas you have and don’t know what would be the most strategic for college admissions—and what topics to definitely avoid for college essays
You don’t know how to craft a compelling stor y
You’re not sure how to edit and refine what you’ve written
You have a hard time keeping yourself on track and want an external structure to hold you accountable
You’re tired of conflict between students and parents about college essays
You’re aiming at a competitive college (not just the Ivy League!) and know that you need your essays to be outstanding
Your grades, test scores, and extracurriculars aren’t exceptional, so you need your essay to make your essay stand out from the pack
You’re unfamiliar with the US college admissions process (a common situation for international students and first-generation families in the US)

Any of these are strong reasons to consider working with a college essay service!

It’s also worth remembering that a lot of the free advice on college’s website isn’t always very clear. For example, NYU’s admissions Senior Assistant Director of Admissions says that “There is no right or wrong way to answer as long as your answer is genuine to you.”

While that’s true, that doesn’t offer much guidance on how to actually write the essay!

Though many college applicants might not mention it, more and more students are using professional college application consultants. Research at the University of Chicago has shown that over a quarter of high-achieving seniors employed private specialists to help with the college application process.

In fact, according to NPR , some companies are even offering college admissions counseling to their top employees as an incentive–that’s just how important professional help can be in the current landscape of college admissions.

It’s important to note that a good college essay service will not write your college application essays for you . This is unethical and illegal. That’s not just coming from us: take it from a school like Princeton, whose website insists on the importance of writing your own application essays.

A good college essay service will guide you through each step of the process , teaching you how to self-reflect and write well while sharing insider insight about admissions strategy .

What makes a good college essay service?

We strongly believe that students need to write their own college essays , and we do not condone plagiarism or “buying” a college essay.

However, writing college application essays requires a completely new set of skills that is rarely taught in high school!

Writing a personal essay is much more creative than simply writing a good paper for English class. It requires a compelling narrative and a great deal of writing craft . A good essay service will teach how to do this kind of writing.

There are many college essay services that will provide only written feedback to students, usually in the form of comments added to an essay draft. (Remember, it’s important that students write their own essays, so avoid any college essay service that will make edits directly to an essay document .)

Written comments can be an effective component of good essay coaching. However, writing college essays is a deeply personal process , and it’s incredibly difficult to guide a student through the process of self-reflection, brainstorming, and planning purely through written comments.

In addition, a great college essay coach will teach students how to do this entire process of brainstorming, planning, outlining, writing, and revising . It’s difficult to learn why an essay coach is advising certain changes through written comments alone.

For these reasons, look for a college essay service with live, one-on-one services , not just written feedback. These days, it’s easy to work with the best college essay consultants in the country over Zoom!

Students need to reflect on their goals, their passions, and what drives them to be the person they are. This requires a great deal of self-awareness and self-analysis . An experienced college essay coach can help draw these ideas out of students through tested introspection techniques and brainstorming exercises .

On top of all of that, students need to be cognizant of which traits and accomplishments will be most appealing to colleges , and which stories will be cliche and boring. Personal statements and supplementary essays need to fit together to tell a cohesive story, and they need to work together with the rest of the student’s application (extracurriculars, grades, and other accomplishments).

In other words, there’s a great deal of strategy here! An experienced college essay service can help students decide how to present themselves in the best possible light .

Furthermore, most students don’t know how to edit effectively . A really top-notch college essay service will also teach students how to edit their own writing —how to reorder sections for better flow, cut unnecessary words to meet a word count, eliminate passive verbs, and make their writing vivid and exciting. Our students are routinely amazed by how transformative this step can be, and how much they learn by doing it together with the essay coach.

Finally, the best college essay services can also help students to make a writing plan and keep them on track , so that parents don’t have to be involved directly.

Ready to work on your college essays? Schedule a free 15- to 30-minute consultation with Jessica or one of our founders.

Best overall: PrepMaven’s tutors offer the highest quality at the best price. With three tiers of tutors, they make it easy to work with an Ivy League undergraduate for as little as $79/hr. Or, families can work with education professionals or Ivy League graduates from $150/hr. PrepMaven’s track record means that you can be sure every hour is being spent productively, so that you can expect real results from the work.

Best for individual consultants: College Essay Mentor. In theory, College Essay Mentor would offer an unparalleled level of individual attention and guidance: his website boasts of some very impressive results. You might find it hard to actually schedule with him, however, since he’s very selective about his clients.

Best for unlimited essay assistance: The College Essay Guy might not offer that personalized attention you get from live, face to face essay coaching, but they do offer unlimited essay editing for up to 10 schools (if you’re comfortable paying a hefty package price).

Best of the big platforms: College Vine will always be a bit of a gamble. Because it’s a tutor marketplace, your results (and costs) will really depend on how lucky you get with your consultant. From our research, however, many of their essay coaches look to have solid track records.

Ready to work on college essays with one of our experienced writing coaches? Schedule a free test prep consultation with Jessica (Director of Tutoring) or one of our founders to see what would be the best fit for your family.

It’s always best to start early and not wait until the last minute to write your college essays! Remember that essays can be used to earn scholarships as well as college admission, so a few months of writing now can pay off with up to $300,000 in tuition saved later.

We work with students at all stages of the writing process, from I-have-no-idea-what-to-write to final edits. To start working with an Ivy-League writing coach today, set up a quick free consultation with our team.

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How to Write a College Essay | A Complete Guide & Examples

The college essay can make or break your application. It’s your chance to provide personal context, communicate your values and qualities, and set yourself apart from other students.

A standout essay has a few key ingredients:

A unique, personal topic
A compelling, well-structured narrative
A clear, creative writing style
Evidence of self-reflection and insight

To achieve this, it’s crucial to give yourself enough time for brainstorming, writing, revision, and feedback.

In this comprehensive guide, we walk you through every step in the process of writing a college admissions essay.

Why do you need a standout essay, start organizing early, choose a unique topic, outline your essay, start with a memorable introduction, write like an artist, craft a strong conclusion, revise and receive feedback, frequently asked questions.

While most of your application lists your academic achievements, your college admissions essay is your opportunity to share who you are and why you’d be a good addition to the university.

Your college admissions essay accounts for about 25% of your application’s total weight一and may account for even more with some colleges making the SAT and ACT tests optional. The college admissions essay may be the deciding factor in your application, especially for competitive schools where most applicants have exceptional grades, test scores, and extracurriculars.

What do colleges look for in an essay?

Admissions officers want to understand your background, personality, and values to get a fuller picture of you beyond your test scores and grades. Here’s what colleges look for in an essay :

Demonstrated values and qualities
Vulnerability and authenticity
Self-reflection and insight
Creative, clear, and concise writing skills

Prevent plagiarism. Run a free check.

It’s a good idea to start organizing your college application timeline in the summer of your junior year to make your application process easier. This will give you ample time for essay brainstorming, writing, revision, and feedback.

While timelines will vary for each student, aim to spend at least 1–3 weeks brainstorming and writing your first draft and at least 2–4 weeks revising across multiple drafts. Remember to leave enough time for breaks in between each writing and editing stage.

Create an essay tracker sheet

If you’re applying to multiple schools, you will have to juggle writing several essays for each one. We recommend using an essay tracker spreadsheet to help you visualize and organize the following:

Deadlines and number of essays needed
Prompt overlap, allowing you to write one essay for similar prompts

You can build your own essay tracker using our free Google Sheets template.

College essay tracker template

Ideally, you should start brainstorming college essay topics the summer before your senior year. Keep in mind that it’s easier to write a standout essay with a unique topic.

If you want to write about a common essay topic, such as a sports injury or volunteer work overseas, think carefully about how you can make it unique and personal. You’ll need to demonstrate deep insight and write your story in an original way to differentiate it from similar essays.

What makes a good topic?

Meaningful and personal to you
Uncommon or has an unusual angle
Reveals something different from the rest of your application

Brainstorming questions

You should do a comprehensive brainstorm before choosing your topic. Here are a few questions to get started:

What are your top five values? What lived experiences demonstrate these values?
What adjectives would your friends and family use to describe you?
What challenges or failures have you faced and overcome? What lessons did you learn from them?
What makes you different from your classmates?
What are some objects that represent your identity, your community, your relationships, your passions, or your goals?
Whom do you admire most? Why?
What three people have significantly impacted your life? How did they influence you?

How to identify your topic

Here are two strategies for identifying a topic that demonstrates your values:

Start with your qualities : First, identify positive qualities about yourself; then, brainstorm stories that demonstrate these qualities.
Start with a story : Brainstorm a list of memorable life moments; then, identify a value shown in each story.

After choosing your topic, organize your ideas in an essay outline , which will help keep you focused while writing. Unlike a five-paragraph academic essay, there’s no set structure for a college admissions essay. You can take a more creative approach, using storytelling techniques to shape your essay.

Two common approaches are to structure your essay as a series of vignettes or as a single narrative.

Vignettes structure

The vignette, or montage, structure weaves together several stories united by a common theme. Each story should demonstrate one of your values or qualities and conclude with an insight or future outlook.

This structure gives the admissions officer glimpses into your personality, background, and identity, and shows how your qualities appear in different areas of your life.

Topic: Museum with a “five senses” exhibit of my experiences

Introduction: Tour guide introduces my museum and my “Making Sense of My Heritage” exhibit
Story: Racial discrimination with my eyes
Lesson: Using my writing to document truth
Story: Broadway musical interests
Lesson: Finding my voice
Story: Smells from family dinner table
Lesson: Appreciating home and family
Story: Washing dishes
Lesson: Finding moments of peace in busy schedule
Story: Biking with Ava
Lesson: Finding pleasure in job well done
Conclusion: Tour guide concludes tour, invites guest to come back for “fall College Collection,” featuring my search for identity and learning.

Single story structure

The single story, or narrative, structure uses a chronological narrative to show a student’s character development over time. Some narrative essays detail moments in a relatively brief event, while others narrate a longer journey spanning months or years.

Single story essays are effective if you have overcome a significant challenge or want to demonstrate personal development.

Topic: Sports injury helps me learn to be a better student and person

Situation: Football injury
Challenge: Friends distant, teachers don’t know how to help, football is gone for me
Turning point: Starting to like learning in Ms. Brady’s history class; meeting Christina and her friends
My reactions: Reading poetry; finding shared interest in poetry with Christina; spending more time studying and with people different from me
Insight: They taught me compassion and opened my eyes to a different lifestyle; even though I still can’t play football, I’m starting a new game

Brainstorm creative insights or story arcs

Regardless of your essay’s structure, try to craft a surprising story arc or original insights, especially if you’re writing about a common topic.

Never exaggerate or fabricate facts about yourself to seem interesting. However, try finding connections in your life that deviate from cliché storylines and lessons.

Admissions officers read thousands of essays each year, and they typically spend only a few minutes reading each one. To get your message across, your introduction , or hook, needs to grab the reader’s attention and compel them to read more..

Avoid starting your introduction with a famous quote, cliché, or reference to the essay itself (“While I sat down to write this essay…”).

While you can sometimes use dialogue or a meaningful quotation from a close family member or friend, make sure it encapsulates your essay’s overall theme.

Find an original, creative way of starting your essay using the following two methods.

Option 1: Start with an intriguing hook

Begin your essay with an unexpected statement to pique the reader’s curiosity and compel them to carefully read your essay. A mysterious introduction disarms the reader’s expectations and introduces questions that can only be answered by reading more.

Option 2: Start with vivid imagery

Illustrate a clear, detailed image to immediately transport your reader into your memory. You can start in the middle of an important scene or describe an object that conveys your essay’s theme.

A college application essay allows you to be creative in your style and tone. As you draft your essay, try to use interesting language to enliven your story and stand out .

Show, don’t tell

“Tell” in writing means to simply state a fact: “I am a basketball player.” “ Show ” in writing means to use details, examples, and vivid imagery to help the reader easily visualize your memory: “My heart races as I set up to shoot一two seconds, one second一and score a three-pointer!”

First, reflect on every detail of a specific image or scene to recall the most memorable aspects.

What are the most prominent images?
Are there any particular sounds, smells, or tastes associated with this memory?
What emotion or physical feeling did you have at that time?

Be vulnerable to create an emotional response

You don’t have to share a huge secret or traumatic story, but you should dig deep to express your honest feelings, thoughts, and experiences to evoke an emotional response. Showing vulnerability demonstrates humility and maturity. However, don’t exaggerate to gain sympathy.

Use appropriate style and tone

Make sure your essay has the right style and tone by following these guidelines:

Use a conversational yet respectful tone: less formal than academic writing, but more formal than texting your friends.
Prioritize using “I” statements to highlight your perspective.
Write within your vocabulary range to maintain an authentic voice.
Write concisely, and use the active voice to keep a fast pace.
Follow grammar rules (unless you have valid stylistic reasons for breaking them).

You should end your college essay with a deep insight or creative ending to leave the reader with a strong final impression. Your college admissions essay should avoid the following:

Summarizing what you already wrote
Stating your hope of being accepted to the school
Mentioning character traits that should have been illustrated in the essay, such as “I’m a hard worker”

Here are two strategies to craft a strong conclusion.

Option 1: Full circle, sandwich structure

The full circle, or sandwich, structure concludes the essay with an image, idea, or story mentioned in the introduction. This strategy gives the reader a strong sense of closure.

In the example below, the essay concludes by returning to the “museum” metaphor that the writer opened with.

Option 2: Revealing your insight

You can use the conclusion to show the insight you gained as a result of the experiences you’ve described. Revealing your main message at the end creates suspense and keeps the takeaway at the forefront of your reader’s mind.

Revise your essay before submitting it to check its content, style, and grammar. Get feedback from no more than two or three people.

It’s normal to go through several rounds of revision, but take breaks between each editing stage.

Also check out our college essay examples to see what does and doesn’t work in an essay and the kinds of changes you can make to improve yours.

Respect the word count

Most schools specify a word count for each essay , and you should stay within 10% of the upper limit.

Remain under the specified word count limit to show you can write concisely and follow directions. However, don’t write too little, which may imply that you are unwilling or unable to write a thoughtful and developed essay.

Check your content, style, and grammar

First, check big-picture issues of message, flow, and clarity.
Then, check for style and tone issues.
Finally, focus on eliminating grammar and punctuation errors.

Get feedback

Get feedback from 2–3 people who know you well, have good writing skills, and are familiar with college essays.

Teachers and guidance counselors can help you check your content, language, and tone.
Friends and family can check for authenticity.
An essay coach or editor has specialized knowledge of college admissions essays and can give objective expert feedback.

The checklist below helps you make sure your essay ticks all the boxes.

College admissions essay checklist

I’ve organized my essay prompts and created an essay writing schedule.

I’ve done a comprehensive brainstorm for essay topics.

I’ve selected a topic that’s meaningful to me and reveals something different from the rest of my application.

I’ve created an outline to guide my structure.

I’ve crafted an introduction containing vivid imagery or an intriguing hook that grabs the reader’s attention.

I’ve written my essay in a way that shows instead of telling.

I’ve shown positive traits and values in my essay.

I’ve demonstrated self-reflection and insight in my essay.

I’ve used appropriate style and tone .

I’ve concluded with an insight or a creative ending.

I’ve revised my essay , checking my overall message, flow, clarity, and grammar.

I’ve respected the word count , remaining within 10% of the upper word limit.

Congratulations!

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Colleges want to be able to differentiate students who seem similar on paper. In the college application essay , they’re looking for a way to understand each applicant’s unique personality and experiences.

Your college essay accounts for about 25% of your application’s weight. It may be the deciding factor in whether you’re accepted, especially for competitive schools where most applicants have exceptional grades, test scores, and extracurricular track records.

A standout college essay has several key ingredients:

A unique, personally meaningful topic
A memorable introduction with vivid imagery or an intriguing hook
Specific stories and language that show instead of telling
Vulnerability that’s authentic but not aimed at soliciting sympathy
Clear writing in an appropriate style and tone
A conclusion that offers deep insight or a creative ending

While timelines will differ depending on the student, plan on spending at least 1–3 weeks brainstorming and writing the first draft of your college admissions essay , and at least 2–4 weeks revising across multiple drafts. Don’t forget to save enough time for breaks between each writing and editing stage.

You should already begin thinking about your essay the summer before your senior year so that you have plenty of time to try out different topics and get feedback on what works.

Most college application portals specify a word count range for your essay, and you should stay within 10% of the upper limit to write a developed and thoughtful essay.

You should aim to stay under the specified word count limit to show you can follow directions and write concisely. However, don’t write too little, as it may seem like you are unwilling or unable to write a detailed and insightful narrative about yourself.

If no word count is specified, we advise keeping your essay between 400 and 600 words.

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Best Essay Writers: 55 Tips from the Pros

Did you know that your tutors hate grading essays even more than you may dislike writing them? Why? Let’s be honest: in most cases, your goal is to write that essay quickly and then forget about it. As a rule, you won’t work hard to make it interesting and creative. Of course, you have your reasons for this “get rid of” attitude regarding your homework. You may have too many tasks to handle the same day, or the topic may seem boring to you. Even worse you may be afraid that certain judgments can be viewed as wrong or right.

Get Inspired

Be (reasonably) creative, do effective research, spice up your writing, use rhetorical devices, polish your format, put everything you can on autopilot, improve the quality of your writing, use your time wisely, avoid the worst mistakes, take advantage of advice from the best essay writers.

As a result, there’s usually no student’s voice behind an essay. Just imagine what it feels like to reread the numerous variations of the same text again and again. Grading boring essays is like Chinese water torture, in which water slowly drips on a person’s forehead.

Save your teacher from suffering. If you want to know one secret to make all your essays a success with tutors, make them original. Here are 55 tips from the best essay writers:

Choose the right topic. Whenever possible, try to choose a question that interests you, or choose an unusual approach to a topic you are given. For example, if your topic is penguins, you may decide to write about their mating rituals. Make sure, however, that this topic is researchable and that you will be able to find the materials you need.
Brainstorm your topic. A timer and a goal to generate as many ideas as possible within a set amount of time can boost your productivity.
Create an outline or a mind map. Even before you do any research, you can decide which possible arguments to include in your essay.
Browse quotes (if applicable). Statements of famous thinkers or experts about your question can help you begin.
Create conditions. If you have some rituals for getting in the “writing mood,” apply them. If you don’t, create them.
Make associations. Comparing your topic with something else is usually the easiest and most appropriate way to be creative in writing academic papers. For example, you can compare old-school technologies with an extinct species, such as dinosaurs. Check twice to determine if using figures of speech makes sense in this case.
Discuss unusual approaches. It’s important to discuss different points of view. Discuss counterarguments and search for little-known facts to make your essay more interesting.
Look for new perspectives. Try to see the potential advantages of something that is usually considered negative or vice versa. For example, you may want to discuss the negative effects of bilingual education, which is usually considered beneficial.
Create vivid descriptions. Try to appeal to your readers’ senses whenever possible.
Try to bust the myths. Never take anything for granted. Make it a habit to question and doubt everything.
Use academic search engines. To avoid wasting time reviewing unreliable resources, stick to a student-friendly environment. Such search engines as Google Scholar , INFOMINE, and VIRTUAL LRC can save you a lot of time.
Choose the right search queries. Use short and distinct keyword phrases. Consider using synonyms.
Check sample databases. Essays database grants access to thousands of academic papers shared by other students.
See bibliographies of other works. Exploit the results of other researchers’ work.
Check stats and trends. Google Correlate is an easy way to access stats and trends.
Add numbers, percentages, and striking stats.
Mention breakthrough discoveries.
Discuss the most up-to-date questions.
Appeal to readers’ personal interests. Play with their fears and self-motivation.
Add appropriate humor.
Anaphora. Start several sentences with the same phrase, e.g., “If only I could change the past, if only I could know my future.”
Epithet. e.g., a many-minded character, a wine-dark sunset.
Oxymoron. Combine the incompatible: seriously funny, hot snow.
Simile. Comparing two things using a comparison word (like). Her mood was like spring weather.
Metaphor. Comparing two things without comparison words, e.g., The eyes are the windows of the soul.
Grab attention in the introduction. The best essay writers recommend using attention hooks in the opening paragraph.
Polish a thesis statement. Include a thesis statement—a brief one-sentence summary of your entire paper at the end of the introductory paragraph.
Use transition sentences. Feel free to write “bridge” sentences to connect paragraphs.
Start a new paragraph for every new topic.
Write a logical conclusion. Avoid introducing any new information in the final section of your paper.
Manage your research findings with Mendeley or Zotero .
Create citations with generators, such as EasyBib or CiteFast.
Proofread your essay with Ginger .
Improve the style of your paper with Autocrit or WordRake .
Check punctuation with SpellCheckPlus .
Avoid using slang and any informal language (including phrasal verbs, such as go back and stand up, and contractions, such as can’t and won’t ).
Use college-level syntax. Be sure to include complex and compound sentences, but avoid making them too long and vague.
Always support your claims by citing your resources. Avoid expressing your opinion on issues you’re not authorized to discuss. For instance, you may have an opinion regarding whether or not smoking is dangerous. You will, however, need to cite trusted resources to discuss how this habit affects the lungs.
Be objective. Make sure your presentation of facts is objective. Avoid exaggeration or understating facts.
Make it succinct. Avoid unnecessary fillers and repetition.
Never get stuck during the research stage.
Avoid reading irrelevant literature.
Start formatting citations while you research.
Try free writing (writing without worrying about grammar and punctuation too much) to fight writer’s block if needed.
Use such distraction-free writing tools as WriteMonkey or OmmWriter .
Avoid lazy argumentation. Try to find weighty arguments and tackle possible counterarguments.
Never forget your thesis statement. Remember that your entire essay should be connected to the central point of your paper, which is your thesis statement.
Avoid jargon. Make sure your readers can easily understand what you write.
Avoid offensive language. Remember to use “she” or “he” as well as “individuals with limited abilities” instead of “handicapped” or any other variants.
Never ignore format requirements.
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.” (C.J. Cherryh)
“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.” Hunter S. Thompson
“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” Larry L. King
“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.” Patrick Dennis
“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it, and the writing will be just as it should be.” Mark Twain

It’s your choice whether or not to follow these tips from the best essay writers or find your own way to perfect writing. Anyway, the wisdom of top writers is worth your attention.

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10 best essay writing services: top paper writing websites.

Essay Writing Service Reviews

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Writing essay papers is a daunting task for students of all levels of education, from high school to college. They often have trouble starting or organizing their thoughts. Other times, the tight-gap deadlines leave less time to research and collate credible facts. With little or no help, they turn in poorly-written papers.

It’s not uncommon for poor-performing students to lose confidence and have dwindling academic careers. To produce an essay that’s up to standard, you’ll need to conduct extensive research on the subject and strictly adhere to laid-out instructions. This could take weeks or a month to accomplish depending on your proficiency.

However, those who aren’t skilled writers or researchers, but need to put in very good quality papers without delay turn to professional college essay writers. The question now is: “What is the best essay writing service?” This article provides an in-depth view of the various types of services as well as explains the benefits and risks.

What Are Essay Paper Writing Services?

They are teams of professional writers that offer custom essay writing help. How does it work? Students can hire professional essay writers who deliver custom essays that are uniquely and originally written. These essays could be case studies, substantial research papers, dissertations, book reports, and thesis projects, to mention a few.

Experienced essay writing services are extremely helpful to students that struggle with writing and the time limit for their essays.

The List of The 10 Best Essay Writing Services

BBQPapers — Best Essay Writing Service Overall

PaperHelp — Best for College Paper Writing

SpeedyPaper — Best Price

ExpertWriting — Best for Guaranteed On-Time Delivery

Studdit — Best for Regular Discounts

99Papers — Best Customer Service

GradeMiners — Best for Delivery Speed

ExtraEssay — Best for Regular Customers, Great Loyalty Program

EssayBolt — Best for Placing Multiple Orders at Once

IvoryResearch — Best Writing Service for UK Students

When shopping for a top essay writing service, the first thing you need to do is understand what you desire. Students, at times, may have a low budget and want the cheapest college essay services.

To make your job easier, the following list will provide you with the names of several companies that write essays for you and can assist you in achieving your scholarly dreams.

1. BBQPapers — Best Essay Writing Service Overall

This college essay writing site is one of the best options for students that want a cheap but trustworthy writing service. It has a 4.8 rating on Sitejabber, and a 4.5 on Trustpilot. Because of its top 2% vetted experienced writers, it earned a reputation for offering students written assignments of high quality. Their services come at pocket-friendly rates.

Customized essays start at $5.85 for 100 words. Besides, being plagiarism-free, their papers are written after extensive research has been made and then get delivered, as agreed, to your email address. If you cannot afford their charges, you can take advantage of attractive discounts, ranging from 5% to 15% depending on how many points you earn.

It is unlikely. But in case you get dissatisfied with what you are given, you can request for your payment to be returned. As long as you do so within the first 60 days your project was given, you will get it. The customer service at BBQPapers is incredibly responsive and helpful to students' needs.

2. PaperHelp — Best for College Paper Writing

If you need the help of a reliable paper writing service with a solid record of past performances that will live up to your expectations, PaperHelp is an ideal choice. The company provides top-notch, original, and professional-grade essays crafted by handpicked PhD and Masters-level writers. It also provides plagiarism feedback on request and ensures your content is original.

The company’s prices are affordable. To get your papers written, the price starts from $10 for a page. Based on the assignment type and how urgent it is needed. Regarding pricing, they give discounts via promo codes. For instance, you will receive a 5% discount when you spend more than $500 on the platform. All payments are secured by credible gateways, so you don’t have to worry about submitting personal details to avoid identity theft.

On the flip side, if your project has a short deadline, you may have to pay above the average cost. This is due to the difficulty of producing excellent papers when working on urgent orders. So, budget a few extra bucks for high-priority essays. The plagiarism report is a chargeable service as well.

The writing service provider has ratings of 4.2 and 4.4 stars on Trustpilot and Sitejabber, respectively.

3. SpeedyPaper — Best Price

Regarded as a top reputable, professional-grade writing essay company, SpeedyPaper delivers an all-in-one package. The company invests a significant amount of time in research to give back satisfactory essays — meaning your academic projects will boost performance. You also get free plagiarism statements on all orders. It is obvious why their excellent ratings from customers give those stars of 5.0 on Sitejabber and 4.9 on ScamFighter.

The writers preferred for your work will have been carefully screened. They have received positive reviews from previous customers. They are also versed in various subjects, including biology, management, and finance. So, be confident. Your paper is in safe hands.

Another upside is SpeedyPaper’s pricing. Purchasing an academic paper start from $9 a page, depending on your level academically, the fields of study and the project submission date. And the refund policy makes up for any uncertainties.

After you have registered with your email address and made your first order, you will receive a 9% discount. The setback for this company, still, is finding enough native American and British speakers.

4. ExpertWriting — Best for Guaranteed On-Time Delivery

Among the best essay services out there, Expertwriting provides numerous college papers in academia that have been perfectly written. Each order is thoroughly checked for plagiarism and proofread by native English speakers that are experienced in your field of study. Also, it gives unlimited revisions. This gives students the confidence to submit flawless work.

The hiring field is multi-phased, as different experts attend to different projects, from the person writing it to the editor. Expertwriting ensures zero tolerance for mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, which accounts for having a high client satisfaction rating of 4.4 on Trustpilot. Among these consumers are students.

An additional benefit this provider offers is affordable pricing. Orders for premium papers are $10 for a page. Plus, it can complete your project in less than 3 hours. If you have a short time on your hands, it is an added advantage.

The service provides free samples on various topics, like history, technology, economics, and politics, to name a few. This information can assist in getting a brief look at how they write or even give you hints on how to craft your essay. First-time customers also receive a 5% discount.

Regardless of the reviews that come as a form of support from customers, they do not stay active 24/7. So, it can take time to get a response. Likewise, you will not know who undertakes your project.

5. Studdit — Best for Regular Discounts

Studdit is a few of the best essay writers that produce essays without you signing up. It even gets better with its low rates. Their services are available for as low as $10 per page, which makes it budget-friendly for students. Don’t know what pricing to expect? Simply use their user-friendly price calculator without filling out any form or providing your electronic address.

It gets better if you are new to their platform. Studdit offers more than a 15% discount on first-time orders. Coupled with its pocket-friendly prices, there is nothing to lose when an order from this site is made. if you are running short on time, they have you protected with its quick turnaround time, which is 3 hours. But you'll end up paying more.

The platform only employs the best writers. And they are mostly native English speakers from Australia, The United States, and Canada. Their writing prowess guarantees top-notch results. This is a reason for the company's 5.0 rating on Sitejabber.

6. 99Papers — Best Customer Service

One factor that puts this company in the seat of top-rated essay writing sites is its round-the-clock availability of employees. If you fill out their form and order a paper to be written at midnight, you will get well-written work on time. 99Papers gives its customers a wide range of college essay help and also provides unlimited revisions on your project, whether it is a dissertation, research proposal, or thesis project.

At a starting price of $9.95 for a single page, this website’s low rate is one of the very best in the business for students with a low financial budget. Aside from that, you get a discount on your purchases when you use its promo codes. So, you get nothing but the best deal. And if you’re unsure about the cost of your project, simply use the online price calculator.

For academic assignments that charge above $600, this site gives a flexible payment plan. That way, there is no need to delay your projects based on finances. However, it does not provide free plagiarism reports. You might also have a problem with its aggressive marketing tactics.

7. GradeMiners — Best for Delivery Speed

Another long-standing provider on the list of top websites for essays is GradeMiners. The writing service has over a decade of experience and a large talent pool of professional writers with impressive track records. Combined with these qualities is its timely delivery. About 70% of assignments are returned before the due date, earning them a 4.9-star rating on Sitejabber.

Purchasing an essay paper from their online site is straightforward. There is no need for any registration. Though you may not consider their price affordable, as it starts at $15.24, the service guarantees top-quality results. If it is your first order, you get a 15% discount. Each paper is 100% unique and meets your criteria.

Unlimited revisions are made available to keep you comfortable with their work. You may make a mistake and must be careful if you are ordering a complex paper from their site. Not many writers are well-versed to handle such projects. If by any chance you encounter a snag, their money-refund policy got your back.

8. ExtraEssay — Best for Regular Customers, Great Loyalty Program

Do you find it difficult to complete essay projects? Perhaps, they are given frequently; so much that they pile up. You will need the best essay writing website to handle them all. ExtraEssay is the right platform for the job. Starting at $5.57 per page, its extremely low price sets it different from other competitors.

It is a cost-effective personal writing company that focuses on essay writing. ExtraEssay provides a 15% lifetime reduction on more than 10 orders. Its team of seasoned workers and editors deliver high-quality, plagiarism-free essays. There is also assessment of revisions. If you do not find their results satisfactory, the website will refund whatever amount of money you paid.

ExtraEssay has a 5.0-star rating on Sitejabber. Despite its pocket-friendly services, you still need to pay $15 to get a plagiarism report.

9. EssayBolt — Best for Placing Multiple Orders

EssayBolt is a custom assignment writing service. It offers a wide range of academic papers and more. Available is a professional writing team that is available 24/7 to help students with their academic writing needs. Their custom services begin at $10 for a single page.

Like other credible services, the college paper writer provides quick delivery. This means your paper can be ready in under 3 hours. There are also free revisions for the projects you give them. Concerning quality, your work will be 100% unique, error-free, and up to standard.

Also, EssayBolt had a refund-back policy that protects you from any issues with the company. This feature and many more earn the writing service 4.2 and 5-star ratings on TrustPilot and Sitejabber respectively.

10. IvoryResearch — Best Paper Writing Service for UK Students

If what you want is a reputable website for essays, look no further than IvoryResearch. The site has assisted hundreds of students with writing their academic papers, thus earning them a 4.8 rating on Sitejabber and a 4.4 rating on TrustPilot. By the same token, students have access to writers from the UK.

They have academic degrees in several disciplines as well as years of paper writing experience. This makes them a safe source for original papers. If it is your first time on the platform, you can be sure to save more than 20% on your first order.

IvoryResearch provides 24/7 customer support. Students communicate with them via email, live chat, or phone calls, whenever necessary. However, the writing service at a steep price is £63.20 ($76) applied with its promo code.

Is It Safe and Appropriate To Use Websites to Write Essays?

Yes. It is legal and safe to use paper writing websites. However, some essay websites are scams. Before placing an order on any platform, including those featured in this guide, read their privacy policies, terms of service, and customer support conditions. This way, you’ll understand their methods of operation.

Additionally, make sure you research other clients who have used these writing companies. A quick online search will reveal their experience. If the site is given a high number of negative essay writing service reviews, that is a warning sign. Avoid it.

Remember to look at the ratings they are given on TrustPilot, Sitejabber, or any other legitimate essay writing review platform. Request a sample to evaluate the quality of their work. It is also advised that you read their refund policy. This is important because if something goes wrong, it will be easy to get your money back.

Can Anyone Tell That I Purchased the Essay Online?

This question needs serious deep thought; you must know the danger associated with purchasing on any essay writing websites. When it concerns buying essays, one danger is someone finding out.

To reduce this risk, choose a trusted essay writer. The site must have privacy policies that will protect personal information from third parties. It should be valid and authentic.

Protect your privacy by using a secure payment method. Another risk that can easily be affected is poor-quality essays. This will reflect poorly on your academic record. Worse than that is a plagiarized essay.

These two risks can be avoided. If you pick a reliable writing service, be rest assured your essay paper will be uniquely and expertly written.

Who Will Write My Essay, Native Speakers or Not?

This depends on your choice. If what you want is an essay of high quality, it will be best to employ the sites that have English as their native language. They grasp the use of the language, and can easily produce content that will meet up to the standard of the instructor.

Top essay writing services have native speakers of English on their team, but they can also assign a non-native speaker that is proficient in the language to write your paper. These workers have a firm understanding of English, and will easily give you one of the best works. Regardless, ensure the company you choose gives revisions.

How to Come Up with the Best Online Writing Service?

A good way to know the best college paper writing service is by reading past reviews from customers. It will give you background information on the type of service they offer in terms of quality, the level of their writers' expertise, their turnaround time, policy, and more. Here are qualities to expect:

When searching for a service provider that will write your essays, you have to be sure that the team you are about to employ are experts in their field. So, your search should center on companies with proficient writers that have degrees in the subject you want to be written.

Another thing to bear in mind is the quality of the content they give back. Regardless of the discipline, your essay must be top-quality, unique, original, and relevant. Otherwise, your instructor may penalize you for submitting fake work. Therefore, employ a site that knows its way to delivering plagiarized-free work.

Fast Turnaround Time

If you need the essay urgently, you’ll want to look for a company that will be able to turn around the project quickly. Find services that will deliver them after 48 hours or less. That way, you can deliver your paper on time.

Credibility

The trustworthiness of essay writing companies is reflected in the quality of their job. So, when choosing a personal writer, be sure to select a person that you can trust and work with. Find a reputable provider. Review sites such as Sitejabber and Trustpilot. Past customers and frequent users upload reviews there.

As a student, the probability that your financial budget is low is very high. If this is true, get a site that will return good work without breaking the bank. Calculate the charge estimate on their platform. This will make you know if you can afford it or not.

Many services give discounts to known and new customers. Use their promo codes to reduce your costs. A good place to start your search is with our list of top 10 essay companies.

Customer Service

The customer service team should be readily available. While ordering, you may need a reliable source of information about the writing procedure and how to start and complete an order. As such, you will also need a committed company that will solve your problems, including revising your paper. Top-rated writing sites have friendly and responsive representatives.

Privacy and Security

The best essay writer service should be confidential and communication will not be leaked to a third party. The information filled in on your request form should also be encrypted and secure. No personal information should be revealed to third parties.

Writing sites with safe and known payment methods should be your only choice. Your writing needs will be handled efficiently, without putting your security at risk. However, those with questionable payment gateways are red flags.

When Will I Receive My Essay?

Students frequently ask this question. Unfortunately, we have no set answer, as it is based on; how long the assignment is, how difficult it will be to write, how urgent you need it, and how available the writer will be. However, top-rated writing companies will return your work in a matter of hours. The turnaround time is always indicated on the site.

What Risks Are Associated with Using a Writing Essay Service?

Employing the services of writing companies contains no inherent risk. As long as you select a reputable company, the assignment will be delivered on time and your stated requirements will be met. However, there are some potential dangers to be conscious of.

The first important thing is to choose the best website for essay writing that dedicates its time and effort to do it. Some academic writing services employ inexperienced people who deliver subpar content. To know these companies, check reviews from their customers.

It is also best to be conscious of plagiarism. Some companies may not properly cite sources or may copy material from other sources without properly attributing it. Avoid such providers by any means.

Finally, know the dangers that come along with buying essays online. You may fall for a scam or jeopardize your plan. Conduct background research before selecting anyone.

Can Students Verify the Originality and Quality of Papers Before Purchasing Writing Help

Yes, especially when you choose the best online essay writing service. It is highly recommended. However, you should be equipped with an adequate understanding of what you are asked to write about and how to make inquiries.

A good way to do this is by outlining and placing an order. This makes it easy to see whether the service you are employing has what it takes to handle your project. One way to know your work quality is by looking through the content, paper length, number of bibliography and citations.

Searching for the best websites for writing essays is not an easy task. If buying online papers is what you want, partner with a reputable and reliable writing service. Luckily, the plenty of reviews compiled here for you will make your search easier.

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The Best Essay Writing Service: What to Look for When You Choose

Students need the best essay writing service now more than ever. With an exam week coming up and all the added stress from the pandemic, students find themselves stuck in the vicious cycle of home tasks, essays, and research papers.

And students know very well how much time this work can take.

Having the best essay service to rely on is the best way out of this cycle. You will always have the best essay writers at your disposal who will deliver your paper in no time – and you don’t have to worry about its quality.

The question is – how do you find the best writing services?

The most important thing is to look for unbiased essay writing service reviews on trusted websites like Yahoo, AP News, and other popular news outlets. This way you’ll find honest reviews and opinions on different essay writing companies online.

Unfortunately, there are many fake essay writing companies that prey on students who desperately need help with different assignments .

To make sure that you don’t get into this kind of situation and get your assignment ready on time, here’s the list of the top-quality essay writing companies you can entrust your tasks to right away.

1. A-Writer

We’ll start with A-Writer, which is the best essay writing service on the market – it has a satisfaction rating of 94.2 out of 100. But is this rating realistic? Let’s take a closer look.

The company promises 100% original papers of the highest quality delivered by the top academic writers in the industry. The service has 327 writers, each of whom specializes in different subjects.

Customer reviews are overwhelmingly positive. Students name A-Writer the best essay service for a variety of reasons:

high-quality papers on the topic of any complexity
helpful writers and customer service
strict plagiarism policy
on-time delivery
customer support available via several channels

Another perk we should mention in our essay writing review is A-Writer’s flexible pricing policy. Every student will find a suitable and affordable way to order from this website – there are different paper qualities, and the price depends on the urgency of the paper.

Here’s one more advantage to persuade you – A-Writer has a 9.5/10 satisfaction ranking, which makes it one of the best online essay writing services out there.

2. College-Paper

The next on our list of best writing services is College Paper, and for a good reason – it’s one of the cheapest options available to students.

Much like A-Writer, College Paper’s pricing policy depends on the urgency of the paper and the number of pages in it. Thus, if you order a two-page essay on Art ten days before the deadline, you will only have to pay $40.

The price can increase depending on the academic level of your paper. But regardless, the prices are very lucrative.

On top of that, College Paper offers a bunch of features for free:

paper outline
amendments and revisions
title page formatting
bibliography
editing and proofreading

Many other essay writer websites will have you charge for these features or include them as hidden costs, which is why your check will end up higher than you expected.

Of course, low pricing is not the most reliable reason to trust the writing service. Many essay writing websites claim they have the lowest price on the market but end up delivering papers of poor quality.

The more experience a writer has, the more they will charge. So, don’t look for the lowest prices possible; look for the best essay writing service reviews.

3. ProEssayWriting

If you’re looking for the best paper writing service, always take its customer service into consideration. And ProEssayWriting’s customer service does not disappoint.

There three ways of getting in touch with ProEssayWriting:

a telephone number for all US residents (the company is US-based)
a chatbot on the website

ProEssayWriting’s customer service is available 24/7, which is what you should be looking for when in search of the best essay writing service. The company also allows all customers to communicate directly with their writers, which makes this service one of the most transparent.

Which other features make ProEssayWriting one of the best paper writing services?

Here, you will find the best essay writer for your needs. ProEssayWriting takes pride in its writers, who can craft a high-quality paper of any complexity. You can even find an academic writer with a Ph.D. degree who will do the dissertation for you.

The service also has one of the most lucrative features for students – ongoing discount programs.

This is one of the reasons it has so many positive essay writing service reviews – students get discounts with each paper they order from ProEssayWriting.

4. EssayOnTime.com

Usually, the more assignment options paper writing websites offer, the better. It means that the service has a very diverse and experienced staff that can perform tasks of any complexity.

EssayOnTime stands out in this regard. Apart from standard essays and research papers, it also offers students programming help . That’s why this service is available both for students and programming teams who need help with editing and proofreading code strings.

EssayOnTime also has high essay service reviews – 4.6 on Sitejabber. Students mostly praise this company for the following features:

beneficial membership programs
order samples available on the website
experienced writers
24/7 customer support with a toll-free number and a chatbot

However, there are a few minor drawbacks to this paper writing service.

First off, the prices are quite high compared to the market average. The same two-page Art essay will cost a few bucks more at EssayOnTime than on College-Paper.

Besides, even though the service has experienced essay writers, clients can’t contact them or the editors directly, which can overcomplicate the process.

Apart from that, EssayOnTime is one of the best writing services you can find online.

5. BestEssayTips.com

Bestessaytips is one of the oldest essay writing companies in the industry – it has been around since 2005. Over that time, this company has proven to be one of the best writing services online, and here’s why:

easy ordering process
ongoing discounts
stellar customer support available for students from different countries

BestEssayTips also gets great essay writing service reviews for its amazing affiliate program. Every student that recommends Besessaytips to someone and brings a friend as a new client gets a 5% discount per every successful recommendation.

There are a couple of features BestEssayTips lacks – direct contact with writers and a page with the assignment types available to students.

But these disadvantages are insignificant and still don’t take the good reputation away from Bestessaytips, which has a rightful place among other best essay writing sites.

6. BestEssays.com

The best essay writing service should always have an easy order placement process, and this is where BestEssays stand out. You can order your paper in three clicks by adding order info, contacts, and additional comments for the writer. The whole process takes under 3 minutes.

Much like BestEssayTips, BestEssays is also one of the oldest essay writing services – 23 years on the market. It has over 400 active writers, who complete 320 orders per day on average. So, you can say that it’s one of the best essay writing companies online.

There are a few other features that make BestEssays a good option for ordering an assignment online:

a wide variety of services – you can order a paper of any complexity
full privacy
24/7 customer services

But even though BestEssays generally has good paper writing services reviews, it has one considerable drawback – slow customer support.

Many clients report not getting an answer regarding their order for over 6 hours, even though the company has a live chat and a phone number.

The lesson here – no matter what the company claims on its website, slow customer service is the first main sign that it’s not the best paper writing service for you.

7. BestEssay.com

The last service on our list is BestEssay, and it deserves a place among the best writing services online for one good reason – you can choose any writer you want.

That’s right – you are the one in charge when it comes to a writer you’ll be working with, so you can pick someone who has experience in the field of your interest.

BestEssay also puts a lot of effort into informing the customers on how to place the order the right way in order to get the best final result. Students will find an entire FAQ page containing answers to essential questions.

What else does BestEssay have to offer?

great discounts – you can get a 15% lifetime discount after ordering over 100 pages
100% originality, no plagiarism guaranteed
24/7 customer service

On its website, BestEssay claims it has 9.8/10 paper writing services reviews. Yet, many students on other reviewer websites complain that BestEssay has the highest prices on the market.

Apparently, even though you can read the pricing policy on the service’s website, there are hidden fees, and you won’t know about them until your paper is ready and it’s time to pay.

It’s a considerable disadvantage, even though BestEssay claims to be the best online essay writing service.

Now, let’s take a look at a few questions you might have when looking for the best writing service:

What is the best essay writing service?

The best essay writing service is the company that provides high-quality assignment support and has the following features:

zero tolerance towards plagiarism
100% originality
experienced academic writers
clear pricing policy, no hidden fees
24/7 customer service available through different channels

Such a company also has the best essay writing service reviews online and not just on its website.

How can I find the best essay writing service?

The best way is to place an order. If the service’s customer support responds quickly, then you can give it a go.

Also, check the service’s website for assignment samples and their quality. It’s also good if there’s a page about the writers who work for this company.

Most importantly, check each paper writing service review available online.

Is essay writing service legal?

Yes, ordering an essay is legal since you buy the rights for the work from the writer and your order becomes your property. Also, the best essay writing service will always ensure confidentiality.

Do essay writing services really work?

There’s no doubt that they do! Of course, if you pick the right one.

The key trick here is to read every essay writing review, both positive and negative, to make sure that the service really delivers all orders on time, doesn’t have hidden fees, and that every order is 100% original.

Wrapping Up

So, what differentiates the best essay writing services from scams? Here’s what you should be looking for:

responsive customer support available 24/7
clear pricing policies with all additional payments explained
information about the writers and their experience
assignment samples
an honest paper writing services review from every client
a clear description of all services
an effortless order placement process
direct contact with the writer

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We will compare the prices and features of some top essay writing services in the US. These websites are the most dependable and well-known for hiring professional essay writers. However, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Penning essays appears effortless until you have to craft one yourself. As you already know, academic writing encompasses many complexities, including various types of essays with specific purposes and lengths.

Additionally, many students lack the time to write essays. Fortunately, professional essay writing service are available to ease your workload by handling general academic writing for you. We will evaluate some top paper writing services in the US, comparing their prices and features. These websites are the most dependable and well-known sources for hiring professional essay writers. However, each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Here are the 7 best online essay writing services:

EssayPro – Good Essay Writing Service!

Highly Skilled Writers

Pricing Transparency

Free Plagiarism Report

You Stay Anonymous

Your Payments Are Safe

ExtraEssay – Affordable service at the best price!

Plagiarism-free papers

Loyalty discounts

Free revisions

Safe & Secure payments

24/7 support

PaperHelp – A great place to buy dissertations and research papers!

Individualized writing approach

Timely delivery from just 3 hours

Degreed writers

Money-back guarantee

Loyalty Program goodies

GradeMiners – Personal statements at their best!

Information about customers is confidential and never disclosed to third parties.

We complete all papers from scratch. You can get a plagiarism report.

No missed deadlines – 97% of assignments are complete in time.

At GradeMiners, you can communicate directly with your writer on a no-name basis.

Your personal details remain confidential and won’t be disclosed to the writer or other parties.

Studdit - Website for essay writing in the U.S. that has the best overall ratings!

Our deadlines start at just 3 hours.

Each writer has either MB or PhD diploma and writing certificates.

We write from scratch and keep all your information a secret.

Get alerts to know about order statuses change on the go.

Discuss details with your writer on the order page in real time.

Email, call, or chat with our managers day-and-night.

MyAdmissionsEssays – Discounts on first orders!

Budget-friendly prices

Fast, timely delivery

Writing from scratch

Discounts & freebies

Personalized approach

EssayService – For quick delivery, there is no better choice!

Student Friendly Pricing & Refund Policy

High-Quality Academic Writing

Plagiarism-Free Papers Guaranteed

Punctuality and Reliability

Complete Confidentiality

We are ranked Studdit as the best essay writing service in the U.S. overall

Studdit is our top pick for the best essay writing company in the US, offering an impressive combination of benefits.

When searching for an online paper writer, certain elements are crucial and Stddit excels in most of these areas, including high-quality writing, fast turnaround time, and reasonable prices for top-notch services.

Essays come in various forms with unique requirements. While all papers require some research, many essays require extensive research.

If you are short on time, consider using a professional essay writing service that specializes in complex papers such as dissertations. Studdit has higher pricing compared to other websites, but it also provides superior services.

The company also provides originality and editorial check reports for all essays, but has a lengthy registration process and a somewhat cumbersome website, which may inconvenience customers with tight deadlines.

Any deadline & subject

Email & SMS alerts

Certified writers

Interaction with a writer

Original & confidential

24/7 online support

High school from 10$ / page

Undergraduate from 13$ / page

Undergraduate from 19$ / page

Undergraduate from 21$ / page

Other benefits Studdit include good communication with the support team and a discount on your papers.

PaperHepl – Research Papers and Dissertations at the Best Price

PaperHelp offers exceptional research, personalized approach, and a specialization in writing dissertations. Dissertations can often become lengthy, leading to a potential decrease in content quality. PaperHelp ensures consistent quality throughout by paying attention to every detail.

PaperHelp stands at the forefront of quality essay services in the US, with a team of carefully selected, expert academic writers – many of whom are non-native English speakers with proficiency comparable to native writers. Their comprehensive research process, along with editing, proofreading, and formatting, make PaperHelp a premier choice for essay writing service.

Furthermore, PaperHelp is student-friendly, offering substantial discounts and a loyalty program tailored for students. The company provides the best college paper writing services to meet the academic standards for different levels, including high school and college-level essays.

Turnaround time is quick

User-friendly for students

Guarantee of money back

Positive reviews and a solid reputation

Academic writing from 10$ \ page

Editing & Proofreading from 6$ \ page

While PaperHelp is renowned for delivering high-quality essays, it also remains a leading provider of research papers and dissertations.

ExtraEssay – Affordable Service with Best Value for Money

With numerous positive reviews in the US, its writers are carefully selected for their professional and knowledgeable essay writing abilities.

ExtraEssay is known for its fast turnaround time and speedy delivery, as the name suggests. You can hire a reasonably priced essay writer and receive a decent paper on time. While its content quality may not match other affordable essay writing services, ExtraEssay compensates with prompt delivery and exceptional customer service. With numerous positive reviews in the US, its writers are carefully selected for their professional and knowledgeable essay writing abilities.

With a wide range of expertise, you have a high chance of finding a suitable writer for your essays, even with tight deadlines. SpeedyPaper pays close attention to detail, despite its speed, and prioritizes confidentiality and privacy through its data policy and privacy protection.

Reliable with deadlines

User-friendly website

Good customer support

Cheap essay writing service, affordable pricing

Minimum $9 per page

Other ExtraEssay benefits include good communication with the support team and a discount on your papers.

EssayPro – Having the best online reputation

EssayPro is a great option for college essay help, with a streamlined process for customers to find the perfect writer for their needs. These factors make EssayPro one of the most reliable and trustworthy essay services available.

Are you hesitant to hire a college essay writing service due to trust concerns? EssayPro is here to provide the assistance you need. With so many unreliable companies, it’s important to choose wisely.

As a student, time is often limited, especially when it comes to critical essays with tight deadlines. Delays, low-quality content, and scams are the last things you want to worry about.

The reputation of a custom essay writing service is crucial, especially with the risks of plagiarism and improper source citation.

Writer bidding

Fast turnaround time of as little as 6 hours

Fair pricing

Good pricing

The minimum price per page is $11.40 (275 words, college level, two-week deadline)

EssayPro offers a flexible process for both writers and clients, making it a cost-effective option for students on a budget. You can choose a professional writer based on your needs and budget and select from three main paper types: high school, university, and doctorate. You can also quickly review professional writers’ qualifications before hiring.

MyAdmissionsEssay – The Biggest First-Order Discount

MyAdmissionEssay is a recommended option for those seeking a college paper writing service in the U.S. with fast turnaround and affordable prices.

MyAdmissionEssay is a top choice for a college essay writing service in the U.S. offering quick turnaround at an affordable price. Although it may not be the best option for high-quality college-grade essays, it is suitable for simpler essays and tight deadlines.

With consistent discounts for both new and returning customers, MyAdmissionEssay provides a fast and low-priced option compared to other paper writing services. Despite mainly having ESL writers, they are carefully selected to have skills comparable to native English speakers.

Good reputation

Fast response and support

Quality work for the price

Minimum $10 per page

(275 words, college level, two-week deadline)

MyAdmissionEssay also offers a money-back guarantee, showing their confidence in the quality, customer service, and integrity of their service.

GradeMiners – Personal statements at their best

GradeMiners may not have top-notch essay writers, but it has been improving its services over the past few years. As a result, it has become one of the most sought-after online essay writing services in the US. Its quick turnaround time appeals to customers with tight deadlines.

The essays from GradeMiners require minimal editing due to its vast pool of knowledgeable and experienced writers. They are able to handle various writing projects, including bulk orders, while still maintaining their fast turnaround time.

Not only does GradeMiners offer writing services, but it also assists students of various academic levels with homework, such as problem-solving, making it the ideal essay writing service for high school and college students.

With fast turnaround times to meet pressing deadlines, GradeMiners is a great option for students in demanding courses with multiple projects and limited time. Its experienced writers provide high-quality essays that meet assignment requirements.

Exemplary customer support

Fast turnaround time

Flexible revision and report policies

Discounts for new and returning customers

Minimum $17 per page (275 words, college level, two-week deadline)

The professional paper writers on the site are mostly non-native English speakers, available to hire at student-friendly rates. They cater to a wide range of academic papers, including essays, theses, and issertations.

EssayService – The Fastest Essay Writing Service

There are various essay types with varying specifications and requirements, some of which are more complex and require specialized skills. Personal statement essays are one such example.

Unfortunately, not all essay services in the US can provide top-quality personal statements. However, EssayService is a trustworthy option. EssayService ensures quality by assigning writers who have a degree in the relevant field or a related field to write personal statements.

Personal statements are customized to your needs. This essay writing service has over 300 professional college essay writers who can produce top-notch personal statements. All essays are original and undergo multiple checks to eliminate plagiarism. At EssayService, you can have your paper completed in under 8 hours with minimal editing required.

In addition, EssayService offers free services such as formatting, referencing, and revisions that comply with its revision policy.

Free add-on features

Top-notch personal statement writeups

Progress tracking

Flexible revision policy

Minimum $11 per page for an admission essay / personal statement (275 words, college level, two-week deadline)

Moreover, the tracking feature of EssayService sets it apart from others, allowing you to monitor the progress of your paper in real-time. EssayService can handle virtually any subject within any time frame.

How long does it take a writer to write my essay for me?

The time it takes to complete an essay varies, as different types of essays have different requirements and deadlines. Custom specifications often accompany assignments, particularly for important documents like personal statements for scholarships and applications, or for academic writing like research papers and dissertations. Thus, providing a definite time frame without considering all the details can be difficult. The type of essay affects the time required to complete it. However, some reputable essay writing services are willing to go above and beyond to deliver high-quality essays even under tight deadlines. Some websites offer a turnaround time as short as 3-8 hours, but it’s important to note that these companies may not be the most affordable options. They charge a premium fee to deliver within the specified short time frame. However, even for essays with tight deadlines, essay writing services typically still process orders quickly and efficiently.

Does a professional writer write my essay?

Reputable and trustworthy academic writing companies recognize the importance of producing high-quality essays, and as a result, only hire experienced and knowledgeable experts to handle their writing projects. These writers, who are either native English speakers or skilled English as a Second Language (ESL) specialists, possess skills comparable to those of native speakers. Some essay writing services allow you to choose who will work on your project, providing you with the opportunity to review writers’ credentials and select the one best suited for your essay. Other paper writing websites are transparent about their writer screening and selection process, ensuring customers are aware of the measures the company takes to guarantee the quality of its services. While not all essay writing companies in the U.S. require a degree, many do. This means that professionals with degrees in the relevant field or a related field often write your essay, ensuring a high level of expertise.

Is buying essays online a secure and confidential process?

Buying anything online comes with a risk as there is no guarantee. The online space is prone to scams, so it’s important to be cautious. However, there are many trustworthy companies available, you just need to know where to look. Reputable companies prioritize their customer service as it reflects on their reputation. The reliability and reputation of a paper writing service speaks to its confidentiality and safety for purchasing essays. Look for websites that place high importance on confidentiality and privacy. To find a trustworthy service, read independent reviews from reputable agencies and avoid the reviews on a company’s official site, as negative feedback is unlikely to be posted there. When choosing a legitimate essay writing service, consider its policies, offerings, and core values, as well as the emphasis they place on confidentiality, originality, and privacy.

Are essay writing services legit?

Using a paid essay writing service is both legitimate and safe. It is legal to pay someone to write essays for you, as long as you don’t turn in a plagiarized paper. Reputable companies focus on originality and run multiple plagiarism checks, ensuring you have nothing to worry about in terms of authenticity. However, it’s important to review the website’s Terms and Conditions before hiring an online essay writer. Some services allow you to use the work as your own, while others are intended solely for research and as examples and cannot be submitted as your own work. In this case, you may face legal issues. When searching for a reliable essay writing service, thoroughly review their policies and ask questions about your specific purpose and rights to use the essay.

Can I request a revision if I am not satisfied with my paper?

These writing websites design their services to minimize customer dissatisfaction with their work. They often include free revisions as a value-add to ensure customer satisfaction. These revisions provide an opportunity for the writer to address any concerns and make necessary changes to the paper. However, in the unlikely event of dissatisfaction, it is important to review the company’s policies and guarantees before making a payment. Some services offer limited revisions, and any changes must comply with their policy. Meanwhile, others offer a money-back guarantee in case of customer dissatisfaction. To ensure a positive experience, it is best to avoid low-priced writing services with unclear policies regarding revisions and satisfaction.

Which are the main drawbacks of essay writing sites?

There are potential downsides to hiring an essay ghostwriter, especially if you don’t choose a reputable one. One issue is receiving a paper filled with errors, typos, and grammar mistakes. Not all essay writing companies thoroughly screen and select their writers, which can lead to subpar work. Research and data accuracy are also important factors in essay writing and can pose risks if not done properly. Organization and flow are also crucial in essays, but some companies may divide the work among multiple writers to meet tight deadlines, leading to a disjointed essay. Plagiarism is a common concern in the essay writing industry, but most reputable companies have measures in place to prevent it. This is often reflected in their pricing.

When selecting an essay writing service for your college papers, certain crucial factors should not be overlooked, such as turnaround time, originality, revisions, customer service, pricing, and content quality.

On our list of the best companies, we have Studdit as the overall best essay writing service. Considering its quality writing, quick turnaround time, and fair pricing, it is the most popular and versatile option.

Studdit’s solid research process, editing, proofreading, and formatting make it a top-tier choice. If you are also looking for specific services like personal statement writing and high school homework help, we also cover that in this list.

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College Essays

If you grow up to be a professional writer, everything you write will first go through an editor before being published. This is because the process of writing is really a process of re-writing —of rethinking and reexamining your work, usually with the help of someone else. So what does this mean for your student writing? And in particular, what does it mean for very important, but nonprofessional writing like your college essay? Should you ask your parents to look at your essay? Pay for an essay service?

If you are wondering what kind of help you can, and should, get with your personal statement, you've come to the right place! In this article, I'll talk about what kind of writing help is useful, ethical, and even expected for your college admission essay . I'll also point out who would make a good editor, what the differences between editing and proofreading are, what to expect from a good editor, and how to spot and stay away from a bad one.

What Kind of Help for Your Essay Can You Get?

What's Good Editing?

What should an editor do for you, what kind of editing should you avoid, proofreading, what's good proofreading, what kind of proofreading should you avoid.

What Do Colleges Think Of You Getting Help With Your Essay?

Who Can/Should Help You?

Advice for editors.

Should You Pay Money For Essay Editing?

The Bottom Line

What's next, what kind of help with your essay can you get.

Rather than talking in general terms about "help," let's first clarify the two different ways that someone else can improve your writing . There is editing, which is the more intensive kind of assistance that you can use throughout the whole process. And then there's proofreading, which is the last step of really polishing your final product.

Let me go into some more detail about editing and proofreading, and then explain how good editors and proofreaders can help you."

Editing is helping the author (in this case, you) go from a rough draft to a finished work . Editing is the process of asking questions about what you're saying, how you're saying it, and how you're organizing your ideas. But not all editing is good editing . In fact, it's very easy for an editor to cross the line from supportive to overbearing and over-involved.

Ability to clarify assignments. A good editor is usually a good writer, and certainly has to be a good reader. For example, in this case, a good editor should make sure you understand the actual essay prompt you're supposed to be answering.

Open-endedness. Good editing is all about asking questions about your ideas and work, but without providing answers. It's about letting you stick to your story and message, and doesn't alter your point of view.

Think of an editor as a great travel guide. It can show you the many different places your trip could take you. It should explain any parts of the trip that could derail your trip or confuse the traveler. But it never dictates your path, never forces you to go somewhere you don't want to go, and never ignores your interests so that the trip no longer seems like it's your own. So what should good editors do?

Help Brainstorm Topics

Sometimes it's easier to bounce thoughts off of someone else. This doesn't mean that your editor gets to come up with ideas, but they can certainly respond to the various topic options you've come up with. This way, you're less likely to write about the most boring of your ideas, or to write about something that isn't actually important to you.

If you're wondering how to come up with options for your editor to consider, check out our guide to brainstorming topics for your college essay .

Help Revise Your Drafts

Here, your editor can't upset the delicate balance of not intervening too much or too little. It's tricky, but a great way to think about it is to remember: editing is about asking questions, not giving answers .

Revision questions should point out:

Places where more detail or more description would help the reader connect with your essay
Places where structure and logic don't flow, losing the reader's attention
Places where there aren't transitions between paragraphs, confusing the reader
Moments where your narrative or the arguments you're making are unclear

But pointing to potential problems is not the same as actually rewriting—editors let authors fix the problems themselves.

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Bad editing is usually very heavy-handed editing. Instead of helping you find your best voice and ideas, a bad editor changes your writing into their own vision.

You may be dealing with a bad editor if they:

Add material (examples, descriptions) that doesn't come from you
Use a thesaurus to make your college essay sound "more mature"
Add meaning or insight to the essay that doesn't come from you
Tell you what to say and how to say it
Write sentences, phrases, and paragraphs for you
Change your voice in the essay so it no longer sounds like it was written by a teenager

Colleges can tell the difference between a 17-year-old's writing and a 50-year-old's writing. Not only that, they have access to your SAT or ACT Writing section, so they can compare your essay to something else you wrote. Writing that's a little more polished is great and expected. But a totally different voice and style will raise questions.

Where's the Line Between Helpful Editing and Unethical Over-Editing?

Sometimes it's hard to tell whether your college essay editor is doing the right thing. Here are some guidelines for staying on the ethical side of the line.

An editor should say that the opening paragraph is kind of boring, and explain what exactly is making it drag. But it's overstepping for an editor to tell you exactly how to change it.
An editor should point out where your prose is unclear or vague. But it's completely inappropriate for the editor to rewrite that section of your essay.
An editor should let you know that a section is light on detail or description. But giving you similes and metaphors to beef up that description is a no-go.

Proofreading (also called copy-editing) is checking for errors in the last draft of a written work. It happens at the end of the process and is meant as the final polishing touch. Proofreading is meticulous and detail-oriented, focusing on small corrections. It sands off all the surface rough spots that could alienate the reader.

Because proofreading is usually concerned with making fixes on the word or sentence level, this is the only process where someone else can actually add to or take away things from your essay . This is because what they are adding or taking away tends to be one or two misplaced letters.

Laser focus. Proofreading is all about the tiny details, so the ability to really concentrate on finding small slip-ups is a must.

Excellent grammar and spelling skills. Proofreaders need to dot every "i" and cross every "t." Good proofreaders should correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. They should put foreign words in italics and surround quotations with quotation marks. They should check that you used the correct college's name, and that you adhered to any formatting requirements (name and date at the top of the page, uniform font and size, uniform spacing).

Limited interference. A proofreader needs to make sure that you followed any word limits. But if cuts need to be made to shorten the essay, that's your job and not the proofreader's.

A bad proofreader either tries to turn into an editor, or just lacks the skills and knowledge necessary to do the job.

Some signs that you're working with a bad proofreader are:

If they suggest making major changes to the final draft of your essay. Proofreading happens when editing is already finished.
If they aren't particularly good at spelling, or don't know grammar, or aren't detail-oriented enough to find someone else's small mistakes.
If they start swapping out your words for fancier-sounding synonyms, or changing the voice and sound of your essay in other ways. A proofreader is there to check for errors, not to take the 17-year-old out of your writing.

What Do Colleges Think of Your Getting Help With Your Essay?

Admissions officers agree: light editing and proofreading are good—even required ! But they also want to make sure you're the one doing the work on your essay. They want essays with stories, voice, and themes that come from you. They want to see work that reflects your actual writing ability, and that focuses on what you find important.

On the Importance of Editing

Get feedback. Have a fresh pair of eyes give you some feedback. Don't allow someone else to rewrite your essay, but do take advantage of others' edits and opinions when they seem helpful. ( Bates College )

Read your essay aloud to someone. Reading the essay out loud offers a chance to hear how your essay sounds outside your head. This exercise reveals flaws in the essay's flow, highlights grammatical errors and helps you ensure that you are communicating the exact message you intended. ( Dickinson College )

On the Value of Proofreading

Share your essays with at least one or two people who know you well—such as a parent, teacher, counselor, or friend—and ask for feedback. Remember that you ultimately have control over your essays, and your essays should retain your own voice, but others may be able to catch mistakes that you missed and help suggest areas to cut if you are over the word limit. ( Yale University )

Proofread and then ask someone else to proofread for you. Although we want substance, we also want to be able to see that you can write a paper for our professors and avoid careless mistakes that would drive them crazy. ( Oberlin College )

On Watching Out for Too Much Outside Influence

Limit the number of people who review your essay. Too much input usually means your voice is lost in the writing style. ( Carleton College )

Ask for input (but not too much). Your parents, friends, guidance counselors, coaches, and teachers are great people to bounce ideas off of for your essay. They know how unique and spectacular you are, and they can help you decide how to articulate it. Keep in mind, however, that a 45-year-old lawyer writes quite differently from an 18-year-old student, so if your dad ends up writing the bulk of your essay, we're probably going to notice. ( Vanderbilt University )

Now let's talk about some potential people to approach for your college essay editing and proofreading needs. It's best to start close to home and slowly expand outward. Not only are your family and friends more invested in your success than strangers, but they also have a better handle on your interests and personality. This knowledge is key for judging whether your essay is expressing your true self.

Parents or Close Relatives

Your family may be full of potentially excellent editors! Parents are deeply committed to your well-being, and family members know you and your life well enough to offer details or incidents that can be included in your essay. On the other hand, the rewriting process necessarily involves criticism, which is sometimes hard to hear from someone very close to you.

A parent or close family member is a great choice for an editor if you can answer "yes" to the following questions. Is your parent or close relative a good writer or reader? Do you have a relationship where editing your essay won't create conflict? Are you able to constructively listen to criticism and suggestion from the parent?

One suggestion for defusing face-to-face discussions is to try working on the essay over email. Send your parent a draft, have them write you back some comments, and then you can pick which of their suggestions you want to use and which to discard.

Teachers or Tutors

A humanities teacher that you have a good relationship with is a great choice. I am purposefully saying humanities, and not just English, because teachers of Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and any other classes where you do a lot of writing, are all used to reviewing student work.

Moreover, any teacher or tutor that has been working with you for some time, knows you very well and can vet the essay to make sure it "sounds like you."

If your teacher or tutor has some experience with what college essays are supposed to be like, ask them to be your editor. If not, then ask whether they have time to proofread your final draft.

Guidance or College Counselor at Your School

The best thing about asking your counselor to edit your work is that this is their job. This means that they have a very good sense of what colleges are looking for in an application essay.

At the same time, school counselors tend to have relationships with admissions officers in many colleges, which again gives them insight into what works and which college is focused on what aspect of the application.

Unfortunately, in many schools the guidance counselor tends to be way overextended. If your ratio is 300 students to 1 college counselor, you're unlikely to get that person's undivided attention and focus. It is still useful to ask them for general advice about your potential topics, but don't expect them to be able to stay with your essay from first draft to final version.

Friends, Siblings, or Classmates

Although they most likely don't have much experience with what colleges are hoping to see, your peers are excellent sources for checking that your essay is you .

Friends and siblings are perfect for the read-aloud edit. Read your essay to them so they can listen for words and phrases that are stilted, pompous, or phrases that just don't sound like you.

You can even trade essays and give helpful advice on each other's work.

If your editor hasn't worked with college admissions essays very much, no worries! Any astute and attentive reader can still greatly help with your process. But, as in all things, beginners do better with some preparation.

First, your editor should read our advice about how to write a college essay introduction , how to spot and fix a bad college essay , and get a sense of what other students have written by going through some admissions essays that worked .

Then, as they read your essay, they can work through the following series of questions that will help them to guide you.

Introduction Questions

Is the first sentence a killer opening line? Why or why not?
Does the introduction hook the reader? Does it have a colorful, detailed, and interesting narrative? Or does it propose a compelling or surprising idea?
Can you feel the author's voice in the introduction, or is the tone dry, dull, or overly formal? Show the places where the voice comes through.

Essay Body Questions

Does the essay have a through-line? Is it built around a central argument, thought, idea, or focus? Can you put this idea into your own words?
How is the essay organized? By logical progression? Chronologically? Do you feel order when you read it, or are there moments where you are confused or lose the thread of the essay?
Does the essay have both narratives about the author's life and explanations and insight into what these stories reveal about the author's character, personality, goals, or dreams? If not, which is missing?
Does the essay flow? Are there smooth transitions/clever links between paragraphs? Between the narrative and moments of insight?

Reader Response Questions

Does the writer's personality come through? Do we know what the speaker cares about? Do we get a sense of "who he or she is"?
Where did you feel most connected to the essay? Which parts of the essay gave you a "you are there" sensation by invoking your senses? What moments could you picture in your head well?
Where are the details and examples vague and not specific enough?
Did you get an "a-ha!" feeling anywhere in the essay? Is there a moment of insight that connected all the dots for you? Is there a good reveal or "twist" anywhere in the essay?
What are the strengths of this essay? What needs the most improvement?

Should You Pay Money for Essay Editing?

One alternative to asking someone you know to help you with your college essay is the paid editor route. There are two different ways to pay for essay help: a private essay coach or a less personal editing service , like the many proliferating on the internet.

My advice is to think of these options as a last resort rather than your go-to first choice. I'll first go through the reasons why. Then, if you do decide to go with a paid editor, I'll help you decide between a coach and a service.

When to Consider a Paid Editor

In general, I think hiring someone to work on your essay makes a lot of sense if none of the people I discussed above are a possibility for you.

If you can't ask your parents. For example, if your parents aren't good writers, or if English isn't their first language. Or if you think getting your parents to help is going create unnecessary extra conflict in your relationship with them (applying to college is stressful as it is!)

If you can't ask your teacher or tutor. Maybe you don't have a trusted teacher or tutor that has time to look over your essay with focus. Or, for instance, your favorite humanities teacher has very limited experience with college essays and so won't know what admissions officers want to see.

If you can't ask your guidance counselor. This could be because your guidance counselor is way overwhelmed with other students.

If you can't share your essay with those who know you. It might be that your essay is on a very personal topic that you're unwilling to share with parents, teachers, or peers. Just make sure it doesn't fall into one of the bad-idea topics in our article on bad college essays .

If the cost isn't a consideration. Many of these services are quite expensive, and private coaches even more so. If you have finite resources, I'd say that hiring an SAT or ACT tutor (whether it's PrepScholar or someone else) is better way to spend your money . This is because there's no guarantee that a slightly better essay will sufficiently elevate the rest of your application, but a significantly higher SAT score will definitely raise your applicant profile much more.

Should You Hire an Essay Coach?

On the plus side, essay coaches have read dozens or even hundreds of college essays, so they have experience with the format. Also, because you'll be working closely with a specific person, it's more personal than sending your essay to a service, which will know even less about you.

But, on the minus side, you'll still be bouncing ideas off of someone who doesn't know that much about you . In general, if you can adequately get the help from someone you know, there is no advantage to paying someone to help you.

If you do decide to hire a coach, ask your school counselor, or older students that have used the service for recommendations. If you can't afford the coach's fees, ask whether they can work on a sliding scale —many do. And finally, beware those who guarantee admission to your school of choice—essay coaches don't have any special magic that can back up those promises.

Should You Send Your Essay to a Service?

On the plus side, essay editing services provide a similar product to essay coaches, and they cost significantly less . If you have some assurance that you'll be working with a good editor, the lack of face-to-face interaction won't prevent great results.

On the minus side, however, it can be difficult to gauge the quality of the service before working with them . If they are churning through many application essays without getting to know the students they are helping, you could end up with an over-edited essay that sounds just like everyone else's. In the worst case scenario, an unscrupulous service could send you back a plagiarized essay.

Getting recommendations from friends or a school counselor for reputable services is key to avoiding heavy-handed editing that writes essays for you or does too much to change your essay. Including a badly-edited essay like this in your application could cause problems if there are inconsistencies. For example, in interviews it might be clear you didn't write the essay, or the skill of the essay might not be reflected in your schoolwork and test scores.

Should You Buy an Essay Written by Someone Else?

Let me elaborate. There are super sketchy places on the internet where you can simply buy a pre-written essay. Don't do this!

For one thing, you'll be lying on an official, signed document. All college applications make you sign a statement saying something like this:

I certify that all information submitted in the admission process—including the application, the personal essay, any supplements, and any other supporting materials—is my own work, factually true, and honestly presented... I understand that I may be subject to a range of possible disciplinary actions, including admission revocation, expulsion, or revocation of course credit, grades, and degree, should the information I have certified be false. (From the Common Application )

For another thing, if your academic record doesn't match the essay's quality, the admissions officer will start thinking your whole application is riddled with lies.

Admission officers have full access to your writing portion of the SAT or ACT so that they can compare work that was done in proctored conditions with that done at home. They can tell if these were written by different people. Not only that, but there are now a number of search engines that faculty and admission officers can use to see if an essay contains strings of words that have appeared in other essays—you have no guarantee that the essay you bought wasn't also bought by 50 other students.

You should get college essay help with both editing and proofreading
A good editor will ask questions about your idea, logic, and structure, and will point out places where clarity is needed
A good editor will absolutely not answer these questions, give you their own ideas, or write the essay or parts of the essay for you
A good proofreader will find typos and check your formatting
All of them agree that getting light editing and proofreading is necessary
Parents, teachers, guidance or college counselor, and peers or siblings
If you can't ask any of those, you can pay for college essay help, but watch out for services or coaches who over-edit you work
Don't buy a pre-written essay! Colleges can tell, and it'll make your whole application sound false.

Ready to start working on your essay? Check out our explanation of the point of the personal essay and the role it plays on your applications and then explore our step-by-step guide to writing a great college essay .

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Some tasks might simply be over your head. Not all of us study the subjects we love, and not every topic makes sense to us. In this case, buying an essay is an excellent option.

Personal Reasons

At some point in their lives, most students grapple with mental health issues, such as anxiety or negative thoughts. It is OK to acknowledge this. There’s no reason to sweat over college assignments when you can fulfill your needs using a best essay writer service like Top Essay Writing.

Language Barriers or Competency Issues

Many of the students we work with are not native English speakers. That’s why they opt for our expert editing and proofreading services. Others prefer having experienced academics handling the most critical and demanding assignments.

Whatever reason brought you here, be sure that many students worldwide are just like you. You all benefit equally from our top essay writing services!

The Skills Necessary for Writing a Perfect Paper

Our professional essay writing service hires only expert academics with years of experience. They all share a passion for rigorous research and impeccable writing skills. They appreciate the value of essay outlines and drafts and are familiar with the conventions of academic writing. Your final document will be free of grammatical or syntactic errors, and the text will be nicely laid out. The paragraphs will be proportional to your paper, and the thesis statement will be robust. Our academic experts are well-versed in numerous referencing styles. They are committed to producing original, coherent, and custom-made essays.

Degrees of Complexity in College Assignments

Nothing is too obscure or specialized for us. We are very confident that we can deal with very complex or unique assignments. We accept orders up to 6 hours before your deadline. From essays, term papers, dissertations, thesis chapters, dashboard posts, science-based projects, and calculations, we’re here to help you nail your assignment. We cover academic writing tasks across all education levels, from high school to university.

How We Ensure Stability and Continuity

Stability and safety are common concerns among students reaching out for academic writing support. What if your assigned expert writer becomes incapacitated for whichever reason? Rest assured that your satisfaction is our top priority. If your allocated academic cannot complete your pay for research paper or pay for an essay order on time, we will find an equally qualified replacement. We have an extensive network of specialized academics to choose from.

Why Choose Top Essay Writing?

We understand that you might not have the time to read the entire welcome post. Read on to find out how you’ll benefit from working with us.

Direct communication with your writer. You can message the expert academic responsible for your paper directly. Drop them a line to learn more about how they’re getting on with your order, ask any questions you might have, or discuss the topic together. No need to waste your time by contacting the operators first.
Transparency. When you contact our operators to ask them, “What should I expect from your write my essay service?” you can rest assured that we’ll be transparent every step of the way. There are no hidden fees. Our pricing system is simple and straightforward, immediately calculating the cost of your order. If you change your requirement (e.g., delivery date or academic level), the price changes accordingly. We promise to give you what you ask for.
Guaranteed quality. We take your grades seriously. Our best essay services allow for revision requests and customer reimbursement, regardless of the order cost. Our managers work closely with expert academics to ensure you get a plagiarism-free document. To confirm the originality of your paper, you can always ask to have a look at our plagiarism report.
Affordability. As a company constantly fighting for the title of the “top writing service”, we have a flexible pricing and discount system. Our essay prices start from $13.99, which is more than reasonable for the quality of our work. We also offer discounts; the more orders you place, the bigger the discount. This way, both old and new clients have something to look forward to!

How to Identify the Top Paper Writing Service

There are many top essay writing websites out there. They might seem attractive and trustworthy, but research shows that only 15% help you achieve better grades.

Follow these tips to identify the high caliber essay providers and avoid disappointment.

Read their quality policy. Reliable essay providers have detailed privacy and quality policies. Consult them to understand what to expect from this company. For example, do they have an alterations policy? Do paper writing websites offer a refund in case your order is not delivered on time or is of low quality? We provide both, but not everyone does.
Consult their privacy policy. Data security and integrity matter. How does this platform use your data? On our website, clients receive a unique ID after creating an account, so they don't have to share their real names with writers or operators. We use SSL-certified payment systems, so your money is always safe.
Learn about their plagiarism policy. Plagiarism can harm your educational career. It might even lead to academic suspension or probation. Before hiring an essay provider, make sure they take it seriously. Our top essay writer service provides only custom-made papers. As part of our quality control system, we use plagiarism checkers and can provide a plagiarism report upon request.
Find out their turnaround time. How quickly does this agency handle orders? You can find out by filling out their online order form or speaking to customer support. Top Essay Writing covers both urgent and long-term academic tasks. The minimum time we ask to complete an order is 6 hours. Still, for your own peace of mind, we recommend you place your order as far in advance as possible.
Get in touch with them. If you ask an operator, “Could you do my essay for me?” or inquire about their qualifications, notice how they reply. Do they answer promptly and with precision? Do they write in a professional and polite manner? This is what we guarantee. With our direct communication channels, you can verify it straight away.
Check their prices. Understandably, students have a low budget. They’re often attracted to low-cost agencies with dubious performance. Bear in mind that costs below $10 are unrealistic; no academic expert will work for such low pay. Our essay writing services and research paper writing service start from $13.99, which is just right to keep our clients and writers happy.
Verify their reputation. Reading topessaywriting.org reviews on Trustpilot or elsewhere is the safest way to confirm other students’ experiences with essay help websites. Of course, they don’t always paint the right picture. Newly created writing companies often don’t have established their online presence, while others fake reviews to boost their status. Trust only the reviews that appear genuine and legitimate.

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Top Essay Writing has been helping thousands of students for years. This enabled us to recruit, train, and retain 1,300+ top academic writers specializing in 50+ subjects. They all underwent rigorous and demanding skills assessments testing their writing and research skills. We study their previous writing samples and pay close attention to their academic achievements and qualifications. Only the best academics join our company.

At the very moment when students ask us: “Would you write me an essay?”, we look for the academics that best suit their needs. If you ask for a college-level paper, we’ll find an academic with a Master’s degree as a minimum. Clients asking for a Classical Literature essay are allocated one of the finest Classical Literature academics. We are committed to creating the most appropriate academic matches for your needs to ensure you’re happy with our service.

What Types of Papers Do You Offer?

We understand that students need help with a wide variety of assignments. Some need their essay professionally written, while others need their paper edited or proofread. We offer both services. Equally, our seasoned academics can work on both complex and challenging projects (e.g., a dissertation or doctoral thesis) or on brief and easy ones (e.g., a discussion post or dashboard assignment). Our academics work only on projects they are specialized in. We have an extensive network of associates to meet your needs!

Furthermore, you can choose any referencing style. Our writers are proficient in all standard referencing systems, including MLA, ASA, Chicago APSA, APA, Harvard, Chicago, Turabian, and custom styles. Just clarify your referencing requirements, when you state, “I want you to write my essay for me,” and these will be followed to the letter at the citation, reference list, graph, and table level.

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The top traits evaluated to select the best essay services, user experience.

First of all, I analyze every college essay writing service for the overall user experience. I was looking for companies that offer the most convenience and ease of use to let students save as much time as possible. To assess user experience, I rigorously evaluate the website’s structure, order process, payment options, and other features available on the site, and I also pay special attention to intuitiveness.

Customer Support

In my opinion, the quality of customer support is one of the most crucial factors determining user experience. A good writing service should demonstrate impeccable care for its customers. A service should offer at least a couple of ways to connect with customer reps – via email and online chat. Also, it’s important that a service offers its customer support around the clock and ensures prompt replies to customers’ queries.

Credibility

The credibility of a writing company is another crucial factor, which consists of many small details. In my experience, the credibility of a specific service is determined by its overall experience in the market, the number of existing and former customers, ratings on the web, etc. Additionally, I pay special attention to the reputation of every company on the web and customer reviews it receives.

Privacy and Security

Even if a particular service is easy to use, affordable, and generally good, none of this matters if it doesn’t ensure a solid level of safety for its customers. I’ve been a student myself and know how scary it can be to delegate your tasks to online helpers. Thus, when making my reviews, I meticulously study all policies and terms of use to ensure that the services I recommend are 100% safe and anonymous.

Value for Money

I know that students who look for professional writing services mostly focus on two factors – price and quality. In my experience, assessing these two factors separately is a wrong approach. You can find a cheap but poor-quality service or a top-quality but expensive one. To keep the fine line between the price and quality, I focus on the value for money and only select services that provide solid help at a reasonable cost.

1. EssayPro

EssayPro is the top essay writing service overall. After studying dozens of sites, I found that this service is perfect in terms of all crucial factors, including reputation, price, quality, and safety. The company also offers an extensive list of services, including writing, proofreading, and editing for all kinds of tasks in 150+ subjects. It has been around for 10+ years and has earned a reputation as one of the best academic helpers of all time.

EssayPro charges students not according to a fixed price list but according to the specific details of their order, such as academic level, type of task, etc. Rates for college-level writing help start from just $11.4/page.

● One-stop shop for all kinds of help.

● Trusted by over a million students.

● A huge team of experts with high success rates.

● Finding one preferred writer in a huge pool of specialists is uneasy. Luckily, customer support can help you make the best choice.

Reasons to Buy

EssayPro impresses with awe-inspiring quality, a huge pool of experts, and an exceptional reputation in the market. Apart from this, it has a convenient mobile app, which makes it one of the best services to use on the go.

“Essaypro is above and beyond all expectations. Always on time with exceptional quality of papers. Thanks!!!”

If you are looking for a trusted service with professional essay writers and guaranteed quality, EssayPro is the best option overall.

2. DoMyEssay

DoMyEssay is the second-best essay writing website for you to try. Just like EssayPro, it boasts many years on the market and an impeccable reputation. Over 700,000 students trust this company for its reliability, quality, and versatility. With DoMyEssay, you can get custom writing help with any kind of paper, as well as professional assistance with homework tasks. Also, you can request rewriting or editing for the papers you write yourself.

All services I’ve selected for you fall into the same price range. So, the starting price at DoMyEssay is also $11.4 per page. The total cost of each order is also calculated individually. Use an online calculator to get an estimated price for your task before you place an order.

● High ratings and positive reviews on the web.

● Wide range of subjects and paper types.

● Intuitive website design.

● No mobile app compared to EssayPro.

Quality and authenticity are the two biggest strengths of DoMyEssay. This service encourages students to submit their samples of writing when placing the order to let the writer mimic their style of writing. Thus, it’s the best service for getting 100% authentic papers that look like you wrote them yourself.

“The teacher was deeply impressed by the research paper I got from DoMyEssay. The writer did an excellent job with it and it really looks like I made it myself”

DoMyEssay is a reputable custom essay writing service that values its customers and strives to give them the best quality possible.

EssayService

EssayService stands out as one of the best college paper writing services for value for money. It offers custom writing tailored to your specific needs. Also, it handles rewriting, proofreading, and editing orders with ease, and the list of available assignment types and subjects is also huge. The service delivers 100% original and authentic papers. At the same time, it gives you some of the best deals for high-quality academic help.

The rates at EssayService start from $10.8/page for school students and $11.4/page for college students. To help you save more, the company offers you bulk-order discounts. If you order 2+ pages at once, you will save from 5% to 40% of the total cost. Additionally, the service offers you to save $65.77 on every order thanks to its free features, such as a free title page, outline, formatting, plagiarism report, and more.

● Lots of freebies and discounts of up to 40%.

● A wide choice of experts.

● Affordability with no compromise on the quality.

● If your assignment isn’t too large in volume, you might need to compile several tasks into one order to benefit from the bulk discount.

EssayService is a perfect service for pocket-friendly and high-quality writing service. The prices start from only $11.4 per page. The service also offers you plenty of opportunities to save more.

“I’ve been using EssayService for many years already. Highly recommend it to students who need fast help and expect to boost their grades. The price is way lower than the market’s average, while the quality is always top.”

EssayService is my choice of writing service since they let students hire qualified college essay writers at a super-low price.

My final pick is EssayHub. This site stands out among other online essay writing services thanks to its vast proficiency in handling the toughest tasks in the shortest time. The service easily deals with all paper and homework types for nearly any academic subject. It has writing, rewriting, and editing help for all academic levels.

Rates for EssayHub help also start from $11.4 per page. This is the price for a two-week deadline, so if you need more urgent help, the price might go up. Luckily, the service also offers bulk discounts and occasional promos, which lets you get your papers fast and at a reasonable price.

● Prompt order delivery.

● Pocket-friendly prices.

● Guaranteed high quality.

● If you have an urgent task, you might want to talk to customer support first to ensure that your task can be handled in the shortest time.

The biggest distinctive feature of EssayHub is its fast turnaround time. The service is capable of handling your tasks in just 3 hours, which makes it perfect for last-minute orders.

“I accidentally forgot about my essay for history and remembered about it one day before the deadline. To my luck, the expert from EssayHub handled the task in only two hours and helped me get a high grade with no stress.”

If you need an essay written by the best essay writers in less than a day, EssayHub is the perfect choice.

PaperWriter

PaperWriter is a college paper writing service that delivers A-grade papers at affordable rates. The service has earned a reputation as a service with a huge pool of experts across all disciplines. A diverse list of experts enables PaperWriter to offer quick and efficient help in all disciplines and for all academic levels. Here, you can order any kind of paper for school, college, and postgraduate levels.

PaperWriter offers reasonable pricing for high-quality academic aid. On the service’s site, you can pick the type of service, paper, academic level, number of pages, and deadline you need to calculate the cost of your order.

● Writers from the US and Canada.

● Many writers with MA and Ph.D. degrees and professors.

● Reasonable prices.

● There is a direct phone line to contact customer support, but it’s only available to US Reasons to Buy

PaperWriter rigorously hand-picks every writer who joins their team. The service offers you a huge catalog of native English writers with 3+ years of experience in working with students.

“When I looked for a place to order my dissertation, I wanted a writer with a Ph.D. PaperWriter is a service that has specialists with such high qualifications. My writer handled the order earlier than expected and the quality was impressive.”

After testing and studying this service, I can confidently say that PaperWriter is one of the best places to delegate your papers to a top-rated essay writer.

Best Essay Writing Services Comparison

Things to keep in mind when choosing the right service for you, quality of work.

As a student, you need an academic helper who can meet your needs and help you achieve your study goals. Thus, the first and most crucial factor to consider is the quality of work offered by each writing service.

Essays crafted by professionals should be:

● Well-researched;

● Clear;

● Written in a proper language;

● Grammatically correct;

● Adjusted to your academic level in terms of vocabulary and material presentation;

● Tailored to your unique guidelines and needs.

If you are wondering how to assess the quality of writing offered by a particular service, doing so can be quite hard before you place an actual order. One thing you can do is check out samples of work if the service offers any. Also, you can study customer reviews to see if other students remain satisfied with the quality.

To make the choice simpler, use the insights from my review. I selected the best essay writing sites for you through careful research, and all of them deliver exceptional quality.

Another thing you should pay attention to is the writing team. A trusted essay writing service should never keep the identities of its writers secret. In fact, this is a red flag that may indicate an untrustworthy company or a scam. Additionally, a good writing company should give you an opportunity to pick the expert you like most for your order.

The services that keep the identities of their experts publicly visible, should provide sufficient data about each of their specialists. Ideally, the company should specify the level of education and work experience of every expert. It should also indicate every writer’s success rate, the number of completed orders, overall rating, and customer reviews. All these details should help you understand which writers can meet your needs best.

The services I selected for you all give you the possibility to choose your favorite writer. Also, they all provide a lot of information about their experts. I find all these things crucial for a positive customer experience and high-quality outcomes.

When selecting a paper writing service for themselves, students rarely keep an eye on the quality of customer support, and this is in vain. In my experience, high-quality customer support is a feature that can make or break your experience with a chosen writing service.

A customer support team can answer your questions and help you place an order if this is your first time using online writing services. Also, it can help you analyze the scope of your assignment and define how quickly a writer can handle it without compromising the quality. Finally, customer support is there to help you solve any unexpected issues that may take place during the order process. One way or another, a good service must offer decent support to ensure that its customers are happy and carefree.

When assessing the quality of customer support, you should pay attention to the three primary factors:

● Working hours;

● Speed of response;

● Available means of communication.

Ideally, there should be several ways to contact customer support, it should be available around the clock, and the speed of response should be less than 5 minutes.

Prices and Discounts

I’ve been to college not so long ago and I still remember what it feels like to live on a very restricted budget and not have any time to work even part-time. This situation should sound familiar to many students out there, which is why the cost of the service is also one of the most important factors to assess when choosing the right helper.

In my experience, choosing a paper writing company solely based on the price is the wrong approach. The service can be incredibly cheap and provide you with a terrible quality of help. Or it can be incredibly expensive and also provide you with poor-quality papers. Remember that the price doesn’t always reflect the quality and reliability. Thus, instead of looking solely at pricing, I recommend you consider the value every company brings for its money.

Look for services that offer you to hire time-tested and professional essay writers at a reasonable price. Ideally, there should be at least some promos and discounts to help you save money.

Originality

We all know that plagiarism is not tolerated by teachers in schools and colleges. Plagiarized papers can get you low grades and even lead to an expulsion. Thus, the originality secured by the selected essay service is one more factor you should always keep in mind.

An essay writing service you can trust should demonstrate a clear stance on the matter of plagiarism. It must guarantee that all papers are written from the ground up and carefully checked with anti-plagiarism software before delivery. Ideally, a service should also offer you the option to request a plagiarism report for your paper free of charge.

All services I recommended to you on my list are 100% plagiarism-free. They never copy content from the web, rephrase other people’s work, or resell your papers. Instead, they write custom papers tailored to the needs of every student and only deliver them after several rounds of originality checks. And of course, they give you a free plagiarism report upon your request.

Where Do I Look for the Best Essay Writing Service Reviews?

Customer reviews are among the most crucial factors I always consider for my reviews. Reviews can help you learn more about every essay service than any other content. But this is only true if you find truly honest and objective testimonials.

So where should you look for them? First of all, I recommend checking the comments section of the selected service. Typically, every company will show off some positive reviews about its services and essay writers. These testimonials can help you see a general image of the company and simplify the choice of a writer. However, don’t stop there.

Clearly, no company will post negative testimonials on its own website. So, if you want to see the big picture, you need to look beyond the site. My biggest recommendations are time-tested review platforms like TrustPilot, Sitejabber, NoCramming, and Reviews.io. All these platforms publish real reviews and ratings of different companies to help users pick the best products and services for themselves. Additionally, don’t hesitate to consider thorough user reviews like mine.

Are all Essay Writing Services Legit?

Unfortunately, the answer to this question is negative. The number of custom paper writing services is huge. However, while some companies are entering the market with a noble mission of helping students ease their lives and attain success, others are out there just for your money. Needless to say, trusting them isn’t worth it.

In order to avoid such untrustworthy helpers, you need to look for a company that’s fully legit. There are several factors that indicate legitimacy:

● There should be a security sign in the address bar;

● The company should have a real physical address;

● It should have a professionally-designed, smooth website;

● It shouldn’t be overloaded with lots of ads and pop-ups;

● There must be a lot of customer reviews, and they must look compelling.

Checking all these factors should help you ensure that you only work with legit services. Luckily, you don’t have to do all this work yourself. I’ve already researched dozens of services from A to Z to assess their quality and give you the ultimate list of the best paper writing services that are legit and worth your time.

Are All Websites from your Best Essay Writing Service List Safe to Use?

Absolutely! Knowing how many scams and untrustworthy websites are out there, I always pay special attention to security and privacy to ensure that using each of my recommendations is 100% safe for you.

What factors do I pay attention to in terms of safety? There are quite a few of them. First and foremost, I keep an eye on the policies. A good service must provide clear and transparent Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. These policies should clearly explain what measures the company uses to ensure protection for its users. Ideally, they must use end-to-end encryption, request a minimal amount of personal info, and give a guarantee that users’ information isn’t shared with third parties.

In addition to that, I pay special attention to payments. I never select cheap essay writing services, which is like buying a pig in a poke. Instead, I’m selecting the services that offer real value for money. Also, I’m assessing how risk-free the payment process is and what payment gateways are used.

How Much Does it Cost to Use the Top Essay Writing Services?

When looking for academic helpers online, many students make one big mistake – they start searching for companies with the cheapest prices to meet their budget needs. There is a common misconception that high-quality writing help is expensive. Given that most students are living on a shoestring budget, they simply think they won’t be able to afford quality services. But that’s just a misconception.

Essay writing services come within different price ranges. There are some services that have ridiculously cheap prices. However, using them is often unsafe because they are either scams or provide low-quality services.

On the other hand, there are many expensive services that are way out of students’ budgets. Nevertheless, they rarely provide quality that matches their overly high prices.

When picking the best services for you, I focus on the value for money. The services from my list are all very affordable, with prices starting from only $11.4 per page. At the same time, they provide top-notch help and are truly reliable. This is the kind of service you should look for.

What are the Key Traits of a Solid Essay Writing Service?

My extensive experience shows that a good service isn’t too hard to distinguish if you know what to look for. There is a set of factors that you should pay attention to when making your choice:

● Writers. First of all, a good writing service should have an extensive team of writers. It should consist of experts with different academic levels, proficient in various areas of study. Also, the writers must possess exceptional language proficiency to deliver high-quality papers.

● Quality of work. The quality of work delivered by a particular service is determined by the quality of research, formatting, writing style, and grammar. A trustworthy service will guarantee that your paper will be written based on your unique requirements and to the highest academic standard.

● Plagiarism. A trustworthy company should have a solid anti-plagiarism policy and craft your essays from the ground up.

● Support. For a positive experience, a service must offer you all-rounded customer support.

● Prices. The rates for academic help should be affordable, and most importantly, the service must offer a good value for money.

How Do I Know that the Paper Writing Services from your List Won’t Give me Plagiarized Work?

I’ve been a student myself and know that plagiarized content is one of the biggest mistakes in academic writing. It’s easy to detect for teachers. And if they find duplicate content in your essay, the consequences can include a low grade and even more serious penalties. Thus, when looking for the right writing services for you, I always pay special attention to plagiarism matters.

A trusted writing company should guarantee that every essay writer on its team is trained to write papers from scratch. They must guarantee personalization to your unique requirements and a high level of authenticity. Additionally, good services should use trusted anti-plagiarism software before delivering customer orders.

All companies from my list have zero tolerance for plagiarism. They rigorously scan all papers for originality and even offer you a complimentary plagiarism report along with your order. After testing them, I can confirm that each of them delivers 100% unique papers that will never get you in trouble.

What is the Payment Procedure at the best Essay Writing Companies?

Paying for papers on the Internet can feel quite scary. This is natural, given the huge number of scams out there. So, when selecting the best essay writing service, I encourage you to pay special attention to the payment procedure.

Every service has its own payment process and offers different payment options. I advocate for risk-free payment that protects students’ interests. That’s why I only select companies that never take upfront payments.

All paper writing websites from my list use a similar payment procedure. They ask you to deposit the cost of your order after submitting the form. This is a sort of guarantee for their writers that they will get paid for their work. However, the money remains in your account until the order is completed. So, this process is 100% risk-free.

By choosing one of these services, you will have a number of payment options to choose from. All companies feature only trusted and time-tested payment options like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and others.

Is it Even Legal to Use Professional Writing Help?

This is one of the most common concerns for students who use professional writing help for the first time. There is no secret that there is some stigma around essay writing services. While millions of students are using such services to simplify their lives and studies, there are still many people who don’t get it and think about such services as something bad. But that’s just a misconception.

First and foremost, you need to know that using such help is absolutely legal. If you pick a legitimate essay writing service, you have nothing to worry about.

Secondly, it’s worth noting that a negative image of such services is unjustified. Hiring a professional essay writer has many perks:

● It saves you time;

● It gives you access to the knowledge, expertise, and skills that you may lack;

● It gives you a chance to handle your assignments on time even when the deadline is just around the corner;

● It gives you a chance to catch up on the program and boost your grades;

● Most importantly, it gives you the possibility to improve your own knowledge and skills.

Why is it Risky to Use a Cheap Essay Writing Service?

It shouldn’t surprise you if I say that truly professional essay writing services can’t have ridiculously low prices. After all, experts with vast experience and knowledge won’t work for cheap. That’s why using a cheap service can have several risks:

● The risk of low quality – Many cheap services employ non-native writers or people with poor experience in academic writing. As a result, they can provide you with papers of terrible quality.

● The risk of plagiarism – The cheapest companies often strive to make the most money while not spending much time. They might provide you with other people’s papers to save time.

● The risk of safety – Cheap and untrustworthy services often don’t prioritize your confidentiality and security. Thus, using them might be unsafe.

● The risk of high cost – Many students pick cheap essay services to save money. However, eventually, it often turns out to cost you more than using a reliable service.

All these risks are real. To avoid them, choose one of the services from my list. They are affordable and, at the same time, offer incredible quality.

Am I Protected While I Use a College Paper Writing Service?

When you buy essays online, naturally, you don’t want anyone to know about this. Data leaks can have many unpleasant consequences. So, the matter of confidentiality should be at the top of your priority list when selecting the right helper for you.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, not all writing services are 100% trustworthy. There are many sites that don’t value customers’ security. They may request confidential data and share it with third parties. Also, they may resell your papers to other students, which can result in plagiarism. Needless to say, using such services isn’t worth the risks.

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The best essays: the 2021 pen/diamonstein-spielvogel award, recommended by adam gopnik.

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Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich

Every year, the judges of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay search out the best book of essays written in the past year and draw attention to the author's entire body of work. Here, Adam Gopnik , writer, journalist and PEN essay prize judge, emphasizes the role of the essay in bearing witness and explains why the five collections that reached the 2021 shortlist are, in their different ways, so important.

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The Best Essays: the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award - Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich

1 Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich

2 unfinished business: notes of a chronic re-reader by vivian gornick, 3 nature matrix: new and selected essays by robert michael pyle, 4 terroir: love, out of place by natasha sajé, 5 maybe the people would be the times by luc sante.

W e’re talking about the books shortlisted for the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay . As an essayist yourself, or as a reader of essays, what are you looking for? What’s the key to a good essay ?

Let’s turn to the books that made the shortlist of the 2021 PEN Award for the Art of the Essay. The winning book was Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich , whose books have been recommended a number of times on Five Books. Tell me more.

One of the criteria for this particular prize is that it should be not just for a single book, but for a body of work. One of the things we wanted to honour about Barbara Ehrenreich is that she has produced a remarkable body of work. Although it’s offered in a more specifically political register than some essayists, or that a great many past prize winners have practised, the quiddity of her work is that it remains rooted in personal experience, in the act of bearing witness. She has a passionate political point to make, certainly, a series of them, many seeming all the more relevant now than when she began writing. Nonetheless, her writing still always depends on the intimacy of first-hand knowledge, what people in post-incarceration work call ‘lived experience’ (a term with a distinguished philosophical history). Her book Nickel and Dimed is the classic example of that. She never writes from a distance about working-class life in America. She bears witness to the nature and real texture of working-class life in America.

“One point of giving awards…is to keep passing the small torches of literary tradition”

Next up of the books on the 2021 PEN essay prize shortlist is Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick.

Vivian Gornick is a writer who’s been around for a very long time. Although longevity is not in itself a criterion for excellence—or for this prize, or in the writing life generally—persistence and perseverance are. Writers who keep coming back at us, again and again, with a consistent vision, are surely to be saluted. For her admirers, her appetite to re-read things already read is one of the most attractive parts of her oeuvre , if I can call it that; her appetite not just to read but to read deeply and personally. One of the things that people who love her work love about it is that her readings are never academic, or touched by scholarly hobbyhorsing. They’re readings that involve the fullness of her experience, then applied to literature. Although she reads as a critic, she reads as an essayist reads, rather than as a reviewer reads. And I think that was one of the things that was there to honour in her body of work, as well.

Is she a novelist or journalist, as well?

Let’s move on to the next book which made the 2021 PEN essay shortlist. This is Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays by Robert Michael Pyle.

I have a special reason for liking this book in particular, and that is that it corresponds to one of the richest and oldest of American genres, now often overlooked, and that’s the naturalist essay. You can track it back to Henry David Thoreau , if not to Ralph Waldo Emerson , this American engagement with nature , the wilderness, not from a narrowly scientific point of view, nor from a purely ecological or environmental point of view—though those things are part of it—but again, from the point of view of lived experience, of personal testimony.

Let’s look at the next book on the shortlist of the 2021 PEN Awards, which is Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé. Why did these essays appeal?

One of the things that was appealing about this book is that’s it very much about, in every sense, the issues of the day: the idea of place, of where we are, how we are located on any map as individuals by ethnic identity, class, gender—all of those things. But rather than being carried forward in a narrowly argumentative way, again, in the classic manner of the essay, Sajé’s work is ruminative. It walks around these issues from the point of view of someone who’s an expatriate, someone who’s an émigré, someone who’s a world citizen, but who’s also concerned with the idea of ‘terroir’, the one place in the world where we belong. And I think the dialogue in her work between a kind of cosmopolitanism that she has along with her self-critical examination of the problem of localism and where we sit on the world, was inspiring to us.

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Last of the books on the shortlist for the 2021 Pen essay award is Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Luc Sante.

Again, here’s a writer who’s had a distinguished generalised career, writing about lots of places and about lots of subjects. In the past, he’s made his special preoccupation what he calls ‘low life’, but I think more broadly can be called the marginalized or the repressed and abject. He’s also written acute introductions to the literature of ‘low life’, the works of Asbury and David Maurer, for instance.

But I think one of the things that was appealing about what he’s done is the sheer range of his enterprise. He writes about countless subjects. He can write about A-sides and B-sides of popular records—singles—then go on to write about Jacques Rivette’s cinema. He writes from a kind of private inspection of public experience. He has a lovely piece about tabloid headlines and their evolution. And I think that omnivorous range of enthusiasms and passions is a stirring reminder in a time of specialization and compartmentalization of the essayist’s freedom to roam. If Pyle is in the tradition of Thoreau, I suspect Luc Sante would be proud to be put in the tradition of Baudelaire—the flaneur who walks the streets, sees everything, broods on it all and writes about it well.

One point of giving awards, with all their built-in absurdity and inevitable injustice, is to keep alive, or at least to keep passing, the small torches of literary tradition. And just as much as we’re honoring the great tradition of the naturalist essay in the one case, I think we’re honoring the tradition of the Baudelairean flaneur in this one.

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A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

“I write for myself and strangers,” Gertrude Stein once announced. So, too, Louisa May Alcott, who wrote for herself as well as the strangers who have been reading Little Women since 1868, when it first appeared. For more than a century and a half, Little Women has inspired playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, novelists, and of course countless young girls. Jane Smiley salutes those young girls—she was one of them—in her warmly appreciative preface to A Strange Life , Liz Rosenberg’s slim new collection of Alcott’s essays.

When she first encountered Little Women , Smiley realized that a book about girls was actually famous and that every library had it. Later it even seemed that the book had to be about Alcott’s own life. And since many others have felt the same way—with good reason—it’s not surprising that new biographies come down the pike every few years, intent on changing the negative view of Alcott best expressed by Henry James, who belittled her as “the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the school-room.”

Martha Saxton’s feminist Louisa May: A Modern Biography (1977) and, more recently, biographies by Harriet Reisen, Susan Cheever, and Eve LaPlante, and by scholars such as John Matteson, have demonstrated that Alcott was much more than the author of what she self-deprecatingly called “moral pap for the young.” Rather, as a woman of imagination with considerable stylistic range, Alcott composed gothic tales, short stories, satires, fantasies, adult novels, poetry, memoirs, and essays in which she wrote of female independence and its costs in a restrictive domestic circle. She was also a prolific letter writer who converted into a tart prose style much of her anguish—and anger—at the circumstances in which she found herself, as a woman, as a dutiful daughter, as a second-class citizen, and, ironically, as a best-selling author who worked hard to maintain her popularity.

Rosenberg, the author of Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott (2021), aimed at young readers, is thus not the first person to suggest that Alcott, and in particular her nonfiction, are worthy of serious attention. There’s also Elaine Showalter’s excellent selection of Alcott’s prose in Alternative Alcott (1988); there’s the Portable Louisa May Alcott (2000), edited by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, and The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001), collected by the Alcott specialist Gregory Eiselein, not to mention the superb selection of her nonfiction in one of the Alcott volumes published by the Library of America.

In A Strange Life , Rosenberg wisely includes Alcott’s best-known prose works—the excellent, slightly fictionalized memoir “Transcendental Wild Oats” and the exceptional (abridged) Hospital Sketches —and sets them alongside excerpts from her semiautobiographical nonfiction to show that her prose, as she explains in her introduction, “canters along; she covers great distances in the fewest words; there is no dilly-dallying.” Maybe so; what’s also true is that Alcott can write with unmistakable acerbity.

Rosenberg provides some biographical information on Alcott as well but unfortunately doesn’t explain why she chose certain pieces and not others, or why she arranged them in the order she did. Presumably the essay “Happy Women” (1868), her penultimate selection, is meant to present Alcott at her feminist best. True, it was written as a buck-me-up advice column for the unmarried woman, counseling her not to fear becoming an “old maid” since “the loss of liberty, happiness, and self respect is poorly repaid by the barren honor of being called ‘Mrs.’” In stock terms, Alcott advises, “Be true to yourselves; cherish whatever talent you possess, and in using it faithfully for the good of others, you will most assuredly find happiness for yourself.” But pieces that Rosenberg didn’t include, such as “Unofficial Incidents Overlooked by the Reporters” (1875), Alcott’s account of the centennial celebration in Concord, Massachusetts, have far more bite:

We had no place in the procession, but such women as wished to hear the oration were directed to meet in the Town Hall at half-past nine, and wait there until certain persons, detailed for the service, should come to lead them to the tent, where a limited number of seats had been reserved for the weaker vessels.

Rosenberg also reprints short excerpts from Alcott’s travel book, Shawl-Straps : An Account of a Trip to Europe (1872), but these selections—from the essays “Women of Brittany,” “The Flood in Rome,” and “Visit from a King”—are flat and predictable. And while she includes Alcott’s autobiographical sketch “My Boys,” a forgettable group of portraits intended mainly for young people and originally published in Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag (1872), Rosenberg fails to note that this was the first in a series of six Scrap-Bag books ( Shawl-Straps being the first), and that in them Alcott cleverly assumed the voice of Jo March Bhaer, from the best-selling Little Women —presumably to make money.

Despite the thinness of these sketches, they could be enriched if the reader knew the books from which they’re taken or more of the circumstances under which they were written. For Alcott worked obsessively to become a successful writer and, not coincidentally, her impoverished family’s breadwinner. Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was eccentric and impecunious—and lovable, as long as you weren’t related to him. A self-taught Connecticut peddler turned educator, Bronson for a time ran the progressive Temple School in Boston. But after he published Conversations with Children on the Gospels (1836–1837), in which he included allusions to sex and birth, scandalized Bostonians withdrew their children from the school, forcing it to close. His next venture was short-lived; he admitted a Black child to a new school and even his die-hard supporters bolted.

Then in 1843, when Louisa was ten, Bronson marched his family off to the town of Harvard, Massachusetts, about fourteen miles from Concord, where the Alcotts had been living. At a farm inappropriately dubbed Fruitlands, Bronson believed that they and a small band of cohorts could create a new Garden of Eden by living off the fruit of the land. “Insane, well-meaning egotists,” the antislavery writer Lydia Maria Child called them.

At Fruitlands, Abigail May Alcott, Louisa’s mother, was tasked with the cleaning, the washing of clothes, and the cooking, though there was little of that since utopia mandated a diet of mostly raw vegetables. (Rosenberg calls Bronson “a prescient and intelligent vegetarian pre-hippie.”) She was miserable, and the children almost starved. The model for the beloved Marmee, the mother of the brood in Little Women , Abigail was the youngest child in a family of prominent Boston Brahmin liberals; her brother was the passionate Unitarian abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Samuel Joseph May. She studied French, Latin, and chemistry privately in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and later helped form the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. In 1830 she married the self-involved Bronson, who confessed in his journal, “I love her because she loves me.” In Little Women , Marmee understandably declares, “I am angry nearly every day of my life.”

In “Transcendental Wild Oats” (1873), Alcott changes the names of the Fruitlanders and, Rosenberg argues, “alternates broad comedy with tragedy.” As she puts it, “Alcott never lingers on the psychological devastation” that she likely experienced but rather

focuses on the characters around her and records the homely details of daily life (“unleavened bread, porridge, and water for breakfast; bread, vegetables, and water for dinner; bread, fruit, and water for supper”), leaving little room for disbelief.

Yet Alcott’s details are telling. Her irony is unmistakable, and her voice devastating in its affectlessness. As she observes, these “modern pilgrims,” most notably her father, possessed “the firm belief that plenteous orchards were soon to be evoked from their inner consciousness.” Once in their prospective Eden, she acidly continues, “no teapot profaned that sacred stove, no gory steak cried aloud for vengeance from her chaste gridiron; and only a brave woman’s taste, time, and temper were sacrificed on that domestic altar.” Fortunately the sojourn in paradise lasted only seven months.

The Alcotts eventually resettled in Concord, where Louisa grew up near Emerson, Thoreau, and later Hawthorne. But since “money is never plentiful in a philosopher’s house,” as she later recollected, the family temporarily moved to a basement apartment in Boston. After her mother formed what was basically a female employment agency, Louisa volunteered to take a position as a lady’s live-in companion in Dedham, Massachusetts. It turned out to be a degrading experience that she partly fictionalized in the essay “How I Went Out to Service” (1874), with which Rosenberg opens her volume, claiming it’s yet another example of Alcott’s ability to “strike the intersecting point between tragedy and comedy.” It’s a fine essay but not particularly comic: it’s a chilly story of exploitation and sexual harassment despite the moralizing conclusion about how the experience taught her many lessons.

Doubtless it did, but it also seems that Alcott wrote more for strangers than herself, often muzzling the intensity of her response to those who underestimated, harassed, or took advantage of her. She had begun to sell stories to help support her family, and though she’d already published two in the prestigious Atlantic Monthly , she also tried her hand at teaching again, despite her hatred of it. The publisher of The Atlantic , James Fields, loaned her forty dollars to help outfit her classroom, but when she came to him with another story—according to Rosenberg, “How I Went Out to Service”—he told her bluntly, “Stick to your teaching.” Rosenberg omits what happened later: after the success of Little Women , Alcott paid back the loan, telling Fields she’d found that writing paid far better than teaching, so she’d stick to her pen. “He laughed,” she said, “& owned that he made a mistake.”

She never forgot the insult. Like Marmee, who said she was angry nearly every day of her life, Alcott added, “I have learned not to show it.” Instead she found ways to stifle her rage, distancing herself from her feelings and retreating into the safety of platitudes, which often deaden her prose. For instance, at the conclusion of “How I Went Out to Service,” she tacks on a lesson about “making a companion, not a servant, of those whose aid I need, and helping to gild their honest wages with the sympathy and justice which can sweeten the humblest and lighten the hardest task.” It’s not clear if she’s counseling the reader or herself.

That’s far less true, though, in Hospital Sketches (1863), Alcott’s first successful book, in which she combined her recollections with material from the letters she wrote home while serving as an army nurse at the Union Hotel Hospital in Washington, D.C. Having “corked up” her tears, she nonetheless writes with feeling about “the barren honors” that these soldiers, cut to pieces at Fredericksburg, had won. She washed their bodies with brown soap, dressed their wounds, sang them lullabies, mopped their brows, and scribbled letters to the mothers and sweethearts of the nameless men, some without arms or legs, who lay in excruciating pain in the hotel’s ballroom. Such “seeming carelessness of the value of life, the sanctity of death” astonished Alcott, who wanted to believe that none of them had been sacrificed in vain.

She lasted only six weeks before she fell ill with typhoid pneumonia and had to be taken home to Concord by her father. The physicians who treated her shaved her hair and dosed her with calomel, a mercury compound that ultimately ruined her health. Alcott, encouraged by a friend to publish her experience, wrote of the desperate conditions that had made her, like many others, so sick: the fetid water and poor ventilation and scant or inedible food. And she wrote not just of the clammy foreheads and agonized deaths, and the insouciance of doctors who made a young woman tell a desperate man that he was dying, but also of the inescapable racism even of her fellow nurses:

I expected to have to defend myself from accusations of prejudice against color; but was surprised to find things just the other way, and daily shocked some neighbor by treating the blacks as I did the whites. The men would swear at the “darkies,” would put two g s into negro, and scoff at the idea of any good coming from such trash. The nurses were willing to be served by the colored people, but seldom thanked them, never praised, and scarcely recognized them in the street.

When she voluntarily touched a small Black child, she was labeled a fanatic. Alcott then offers a typical homily:

Though a hospital is a rough school, its lessons are both stern and salutary; and the humblest of pupils there, in proportion to his faithfulness, learns a deeper faith in God and in himself.

These homilies, like her detachment, may have been a marketing strategy, since she worried always about hanging on to her audience. Yet she did still write for herself after all. “Darkness made visible,” as she called it, was what she also sought, anticipating, in her way, what the witty Emily Dickinson surmised: “Success in Circuit lies.”

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N PR suspended a top editor who ripped the network last week over its left-leaning bias – but the journalist doubled down on Tuesday, saying its new, controversial CEO is the “opposite” of what the embattled radio outlet needs.

Uri Berliner – who published a bombshell essay last week claiming NPR has “lost America’s trust” by reporting the news with a left-wing slant – was sidelined for five days without pay beginning last Friday after his article ignited a firestorm.

Nevertheless, Berliner in a Tuesday interview ripped NPR CEO Katherine Maher over a trove of past posts unearthed on X. Those included calling Donald Trump “racist” in 2018 and blasting Hillary Clinton for using the terms “boy” and “girl,” saying she was “erasing language for non-binary people.”

“We’re looking for a leader right now who’s going to be unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about,” Berliner told NPR media scribe David Folkenflik Tuesday. “And this seems to be the opposite of that.”

Folkenflik, who reviewed a copy of the suspension letter from NPR brass, said the company told Berliner he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets — a requirement for NPR journalists.

NPR called the letter a “final warning,” saying Berliner would be fired if he violated its policy again. Berliner is a dues-paying member of NPR’s newsroom union, but Folkenflik reported that the editor is not appealing the punishment.

Berliner, a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has worked at NPR for 25 years, called out journalistic blind spots around major news events, including the origins of COVID-19, the war in Gaza and the Hunter Biden laptop, in an essay published last Tuesday on Bari Weiss’ online news site the Free Press .

Last week, Maher defended NPR’s journalism, calling Berliner’s article “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning,” The 42-year-old exec added that the essay amounted to “a criticism of our people on the basis of who we are.”

Folkenflik said Berliner took umbrage at that, saying she had “denigrated him.” Berliner said he had a private exchange with Maher in which he supported diversifying NPR’s workforce to look more like the US population at large — a point that she failed to address in the exchange, according to Berliner.

“I love NPR and feel it’s a national trust,” Berliner said. “We have great journalists here. If they shed their opinions and did the great journalism they’re capable of, this would be a much more interesting and fulfilling organization for our listeners.”

The fiasco has also put the spotlight on Maher, whose own left-leaning bias came to light in a trove of ultra woke tweets she penned on X over the years.

In January, when Maher was announced as NPR’s new leader, The Post revealed her penchant for parroting the progressive line on social media — including since-deleted Twitter posts like “Donald Trump is a racist,” which she wrote in 2018. She also called HBO’s Bill Maher a “racist bigot” in tweet that year.

In 2020, Maher weighed in on the widespread looting and property damage during the Black Lives Matter protests, saying it was “hard to be mad” about the destruction.

“I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property,” she wrote .

“White silence is complicity. If you are white, today is the day to start a conversation in your community,” she added a day later.

Maher also weighed in on race-based reparations, writing in 2020: “Yes, the North, yes all of us, yes America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.”

An NPR spokeswoman, Isabel Lara, said in statement Maher “was not working in journalism at the time and was exercising her First Amendment right to express herself like any other American citizen.”

The rep added that Maher had upheld the network’s code of ethics since she took the helm.

“Since stepping into the role she has upheld and is fully committed to NPR’s code of ethics and the independence of NPR’s newsroom,” the statement said. “The C.E.O. is not involved in editorial decisions.”

Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, dug up some of Maher’s other race-tinged posts over the weekend, including one where she called herself “someone with cis white mobility privilege.”

In response, Tesla boss Elon Musk wrote, “This person is a crazy racist!”

In another bizarre post, Maher wrote , “Had a dream where Kamala and I were on a road trip in an unspecified location, sampling and comparing nuts and baklava from roadside stands,” referring to Vice President Kamala Harris. “Woke up very hungry.”

Berliner’s essay sparked outrage from the network’s left-leaning colleagues. Late Monday afternoon, NPR chief news executive Edith Chapin announced to the newsroom that executive editor Eva Rodriguez would lead monthly meetings to review coverage.

Berliner said that among editorial staff at NPR’s Washington, DC, headquarters, he counted 87 registered Democrats and no Republicans. He wrote that he presented these findings to his colleagues at a May 2021 all-hands editorial staff meeting.

“When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile,” Berliner wrote. “It was worse. It was met with profound indifference.”

The fiasco also ignited a firestorm of criticism from prominent conservatives — with former President Donald Trump demanding NPR’s federal funding be yanked — and has led to internal tumult, the New York Times reported Friday.

Berliner had told The Times he had not been disciplined by managers when interviewed last Thursday, though he received a note from his supervisor reminding him that NPR required its employees to clear speaking appearances and media requests with standards and media relations.

He told The Times he didn’t run his initial remarks or those to the Gray Lady by NPR.

Days earlier, Berliner appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show on NewsNation , telling the anchor that his essay garnered “a lot of support from colleagues, and many of them unexpected, who say they agree with me.”

“Some of them say this confidentially,” said Berliner, who added that he wrote the essay partly because “we’ve been too reluctant, too frightened to, too timid to deal with these things.”

Journalist Matt Taibbi also slammed Maher for her biased views, as well as her lefty resume , which he wrote in his substack Racket News, reads so much like “overeducated nonsense-babbling white ladies that it’s difficult to believe she’s real.”

Amid the scrutiny on her CV and posts, Maher told The New York Times on Tuesday that in America “everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen.”

“What matters is NPR’s work and my commitment as its C.E.O.: public service, editorial independence and the mission to serve all of the American public,” she said. “NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.”

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