Editor’s note: if you have any suggestions in regards of the changes that you currently witness, please contact us at manager@researchwritingcenter.com. Note: we will not respond or take into account any e-mails that will be off topic – we need your feedback on the current update. You are still welcome to leave your comments publicly – on the article.

As we have announced a couple of weeks ago – we are preparing a number of important changes to the RWC internal procedure.

All of the changes are expected to take place on Monday, 6 AM GMT, but there might be certain time frame fluctuations – we don’t want to rush anything as our IT Dpt. will be making the changes seemingly unnoticeable for an average user.

Some of the basic changes were highlighted in the previous article. But this time, I’m going to tell you about some of the most significant updates.

Status Updates

As we’ve told earlier – from now on, first status writers will have a right to take certain orders by themselves. But hold your horses: first status writers will also have a limitation of 1 current order. This means that you will have to complete 1 order before being able to take another one. Note, the feature is automatic so there is no way to request the Support Team to give you more orders. Read the rest of this entry »

Part 2 of our awesome article! Let’s not waste your time! And so…

Freelancing means putting our knowledge at the service of clients who may be quite desperate, at the moment. Our customers hope, and have a right to expect, that we will bring something to whatever document we are producing that the customer could not have thought of themselves.

In fact, a most painful client feedback comment is, “I could/should have done this myself”. How can we enhance the fund of ideas and information that we can contribute to orders? In an earlier blog post, we discussed a few ideas regarding paying attention to the quality of one’s media consumption, choosing, retaining, and reinforcing useful ideas, and using them in a document. Let’s examine some more ideas on fully exploiting the information stream that we wade in daily, to succeed in freelancing. Read the rest of this entry »

We do hope that you liked the first part of this article, if you haven’t had the chance to read it – check it out right here! But let’s proceed…

Having support for our freelance work in our own home is critical for our success as freelance writers.

Since families can find many grounds for complaint regarding your work choices, disarming them is a daunting challenge.

We examined some strategies recently for garnering such backing.

We discussed the advisability of preparing a sound bite summary of our work, delineating our work time, space, and identity clearly, and documenting the benefits of that work.

Let’s consider some other possible routes to at least a grudging acceptance of our chosen career path.

This is not an inconsequential issue. As of 2005, a third of the US work force could be considered freelancers, and at least 2% of Americans consider home their primary place of employment.

We are not alone! However, if the people we live with oppose our efforts, we have little chance of making it in this new freelance economy. How can we get these dear ones ‘on board’?
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Editor’s note: if you have any suggestions in regards of the changes that you currently witness, please contact us at manager@researchwritingcenter.com. Note: we will not respond or take into account any e-mails that will be off topic – we need your feedback on the current update. You are still welcome to leave your comments publicly – on the article.

We are glad to inform you, that you can expect to see some major changes in the internal procedure with the RWC. These changes will affect all of the departments across the isle. The departments, which you interact with: Support and QA will be reorganized.

Some of the major procedures, which will be affected by the reorganization:

This in turn will affect RWC reaction on some of the issues, which arise during the working process (settling disputes, etc). Read the rest of this entry »

Capturing useful ideas as they occur is a writer’s secret weapon for incorporating current interest, color, novelty, and, originality into a project. Since we can’t anticipate what we are assigned, anything that we see or hear in daily life could conceivably turn out to be useful.

How can we maximize our chances of gleaning usable ideas from our environment? How can we recognize, take note of, and retain, successfully, potentially useful information? These are skills worth cultivating. We’ll examine some approaches.

The first strategy is to ensure our minimum daily requirement of nutritionally dense nourishment for our brains. By exposing ourselves to intellectually stimulating sources, we increase our chances of capturing relevant ideas. Similarly, we should go light on the empty calories of media and activities.

To accomplish this we need to be proactive about our media exposure. We can use the time we spend at work, or, if that is distracting, then when we are doing chores. At the risk of sounding biased, the choice between top 40 pop music, or an article on lip gloss, on the one hand, and a piece about an author, statesperson, or scientist on the other, seems clear. Unless your field of writing IS, in fact, the review, critique, and analysis of top 40 popular music, isn’t a serious interview or news program more likely to contain usable notions? Read the rest of this entry »