Get Money for Essays on EducatedTopics.com
Once a college essay is written and submitted for a grade, it can spend years unread, if not deleted altogether. Clark Scott, CEO and Founder of EducatedTopics.com, believes these essays deserve a second life. “There’s a vast amount of knowledge out there, just saved on student hard drives,” Scott says.
Through EducatedTopics.com, college essays are published on the Internet, giving student authors a byline for their hard work and ideas. The underlying belief is that essays are assigned to inspire reflection and research, not simply for a letter marked in ink. And that’s worth a far longer shelf life.
As an incentive, students are paid $5 for each essay they submit to Educated Topics that passes a plagiarism test and a professional, in-house review to ensure college-level work. “Thinking back to college days,” Scott says, “$5 bought a pack of beer. If an essay’s already sitting on a hard drive, having served one purpose being turned in for a grade, a student may as well put it on the Internet, get credit for it, and make $5.”
Unlike other sites that claim to publish student essays, EducatedTopics.com stands out as a free resource for viewers. The company earns money strictly from advertising revenue. “Most other websites will buy papers and keep them behind a secure wall so Google and teachers don’t see it. They show only the first paragraph and try to sell the rest to cheating students. I have a big problem with these sites,” Scott says.
EducatedTopics.com operates differently, helping to prevent the occurrence of plagiarism. By publishing entire essays with author names and dates of publication, the site acts as a trademark for the work, making every sentence searchable on the search engines. This automatically sources the essays to the original author.
The whole idea is to provide a reference point, inspiring students in their quest to expand or change directions on a topic someone else has written previously about. Essays published on Educated Topics cover everything from undergraduate-level philosophy and technology to master’s level art and science, along with a long range of more obscure subtopics.
“It’s a win-win situation,” Scott says. “Students get money out of if for something they’ve already created for school, and the site grows as we get folks tuning in to all unique content we have.”
Posted on Feb 25, 2011 by Renee Rutledge
