Most of it sits in the guidance issued after the brief, not in the brief itself. That guidance is the first thing we read and the thing the work is built against.
Coursework and assignments. Reports and case studies. Dissertations, theses and research projects. Research proposals and literature reviews. Reflective work and portfolio pieces. Presentation decks that have to carry an argument rather than decorate one.
Undergraduate through postgraduate. Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and the wider Caribbean, plus Caribbean students studying with UK and North American institutions by distance.
If the work is going to be read by someone applying a marking scheme, it is the kind of work we do.
Every student on the module receives the same brief. It tells you the topic, the word count and the deadline. It is necessary and it is not enough.
What separates the marks is usually what comes after: the lecturer’s own guidance. The section-by-section word allocation. The models and frameworks they expect named. The order the recommendations have to appear in. The things they said in a lecture and never wrote down. The specific format of the reference list they will actually check.
Three things go wrong with it. It arrives after people have already started. It gets revised, sometimes more than once, and the revisions contradict each other. And it sometimes contradicts the brief itself.
We work from the version in force, dated. If your lecturer has issued guidance, send it, including the superseded versions. If there is a conflict between the brief and the guidance, we will tell you which one we are following and why, before the work begins rather than after you get the grade back.
APA, Harvard, MHRA, OSCOLA and the rest are families, not single standards. Your institution publishes its own version, and it differs from the generic one in exactly the places markers check: the treatment of secondary citations, how many authors before et al, whether the issue number is bracketed, how a government report with no named author is handled.
Referencing follows your school’s own named guide rather than a house style sheet. If you do not know which version your school uses, that is one of the things the consultation settles.
This is not an extra. It is part of the engagement, and for a serious piece of work it is the part that matters most.
Why this framework and not the more obvious one. Where each piece of evidence came from and why that source and not another. What the limitations are, and what you would do differently with more time or better data.
If there is a viva, a defence, a presentation or a supervisor meeting, that conversation happens before it, not after. A student who cannot explain their own argument is exposed, and no amount of polish covers it.
There is no published price for academic work, and the reason is not evasion. A two thousand word report due in three weeks and the same report due in three days are not the same job, and a dissertation is neither of them. The price follows the brief and the time you have left. Send us both and you have a figure the same day, before anything is agreed and before any money moves.
The brief, any guidance your lecturer has issued including superseded versions, the marking scheme or rubric if you have it, the name of your school’s referencing guide, and the deadline. If you have written anything already, send that too. If you are missing some of it, send what you have and we will tell you what is worth chasing.
No, it changes what we work from. Some markers issue detailed guidance and some issue none. Where none exists we work from the brief, the marking scheme and what we hold on that module and that marker. We will tell you at the consultation which of those we are relying on.
We will tell you before you pay. If the time left does not allow the standard we work to, we say so and decline. We would rather lose the work than hand you something we would not sign.
Yes. Guyana and the wider Caribbean, and Caribbean students enrolled with overseas institutions. Everything runs by WhatsApp and email, so location makes no difference to how the work gets done. We quote in TTD, GYD or USD.
Your name, your institution and your work are not discussed outside the engagement. Writers work from anonymised briefs.
Tell us what you have and when it is due. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right people for it.
