<p>Would anyone be willing to let me email you my 'your choice' essay?</p>
<p>i would love someone that is great with word choice, fluency, and grammar:</p>
<p>basically my ideal editor.</p>
<p>anyone up for the challange!?</p>
<p>thanks so much, just post your email if you are or PM it to me.
or i can just PM my essay to you.</p>
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<p>... someone <strong><em>WHO</em></strong> is great ...</p>
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<p>challEnge ... anyone up for a spell check?</p>
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<p>Pay me $400 and I'll do it. Sounds like it will need a lot of work if this post is any indication.</p>
<p>oh come on C02, now you're just getting petty. that's totally uncalled-for.</p>
<p>Post this on the Parent's Forum. There are several very experienced "readers" that will be happy to help you out.</p>
<p>I'm dead serious. In a 50-word post, the OP made two glaring errors that are hardly "typos." OP should buy Strunk & White or something and study it.</p>
<p>^C2002, if his/her grammar was perfect and he/she was a wonderfully fluent writer, then what would be the need of an editor? if someone is resorting to this forum to get help on his/her app, it mean he/she probably really needs it.
If you don't have time or think time is better spent on other things that's perfectly understandable, but please don't go out of your way to be nasty so frequently and hurt threads.</p>
<p>also if the op had $400 to throw around he/she wouldn't be asking people on this forum for help, the joke was thoroughly distasteful.</p>
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^C2002, if his/her grammar was perfect and he/she was a wonderfully fluent writer, then what would be the need of an editor?
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<p>Everyone can benefit from an editor. There are always things that can be improved with a fresh pair of eyes. The point is that this person needs to better learn the English language if he/she intends to do well at a good college.</p>
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If you don't have time or think time is better spent on other things that's perfectly understandable, but please don't go out of your way to be nasty so frequently and hurt threads.
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<p>As I said, I was serious. If OP paid me $400, I'd find the time. That's about what I value my time at, and it's far less than what others charge for this sort of thing. It's not nasty and an insult.</p>
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<p>This is a really poor assumption. My parents likely had $400 -- or way more -- to "throw around" on some expensive professional polish my college essay. But I had people help me with my college essay for free.</p>
<p>"Everyone can benefit from an editor. There are always things that can be improved with a fresh pair of eyes. The point is that this person needs to better learn the English language if he/she intends to do well at a good college."</p>
<p>yea, no sht an editor helps, but i was talking about need, not some tiny marginal benefit from having one. It's the people who have bad writing habits who need an editor the most.
your habit of giving widely unsolicited advice comes off as condescending, and unproductive. it seems more of a stress outlet than an attempt to help the op or people reading this board. People KNOW that they need better english to do well at college, and if they don't know they'll figure it out, it doesn't need to be explicitly pointed out every time they post.</p>
<p>"As I said, I was serious. If OP paid me $400, I'd find the time. That's about what I value my time at" </p>
<p>then why are you posting here again? - i'd hope you aren't gaining $400 worth of utility every few posts. if that's your going rate why respond to people's querries? it clearly takes you time to read what they've written and respond.</p>
<p>"and it's far less than what others charge for this sort of thing. It's not nasty and an insult."</p>
<p>nope, people charge $400 bucks or so for high level interview training and a thorough resume examination. People will read essays for far less, on this site people do it for free. Now obviously you could find someone who wouldn't do it for less than $1000, but there are ton who'd do it for free, or nearly free. so to ask for $400 is pointless and arrogant, and to assume that someone on this board would pay you that much is putting undue self-importance, which judging from these posts probably shouldn't exist.</p>
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yea, no sht an editor helps, but i was talking about need, not some tiny marginal benefit from having one. It's the people who have bad writing habits who need an editor the most.
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<p>I disagree. The people who are terrible writers probably aren't getting into top colleges one way or another unless people totally rewrite their essays (which I understand some pros do, though it's rather unfortunate). Someone who has a good draft essay and gets some extra help turn the draft from good to great is really improving his/her chances at a top college.</p>
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<p>then why are you posting here again? - i'd hope you aren't gaining $400 worth of utility every few posts. if that's your going rate why respond to people's querries? it clearly takes you time to read what they've written and respond.
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<p>To to a good job editing a 500 word essay, it would be time consuming and require a great deal of concentration and brainpower. One can read and respond to posts in a few minutes during a commercial break when watching TV, during a cab ride or waiting at the airport or somewhere else where it's hard to be productive, etc. Apples and oranges.</p>
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<p>nope, people charge $400 bucks or so for high level interview training and a thorough resume examination. People will read essays for far less,
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<p>Are you kidding? The college admissions "pros" charge $2000-$3000 (or way more sometimes) for the "full service" package, and often won't sell individual, a la carte services like essay reading. I've seen people like grad students advertise essay editing around the range of $200-300, but these people are generic and have no particularized college essay expertise.</p>
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<p>There are a lot of things that people pay for even though they can be had for free. I think it's silly to pay money for an essay editing service; my parents didn't hire one for me, and I would encourage others to similarly seek out their high school teachers. But people are willing to pay for this sort of service, as indicated by the fact that such a huge market exists for it.</p>