Is Ghostwriting Quality Dropping Due to the Rise of Outsourcing?
Paying for writing has always been an area that is open to debate.
For starters, the evaluation of any writing is an entirely subjective process that, despite every literary effort to come up with 'guidelines', remains completely variable.
Still, every single person that has ever complained of being delivered writing that simply isn't up to scratch can't be wrong, can they? Naturally not.
Taste and varying judgment alone cannot possibly be credited as the sole cause of every complaint that has been voiced.
In light of this, it seems ever more likely that there simply must be some other reason, or reasons, that is the underlying cause of the lack of quality that many feel ghostwriting is prone to.
All in the Hands of the Writer By agreeing that the quality of the end product is entirely dependent on the writer that is working on it, a first possible problem is unveiled.
Over time, ghostwriting has gradually evolved into a team sport where, instead of one writer dealing with a client, there are multiple writers all working for an outsource service to deliver up writing.
While there are advantages to working in this sense, most noticeably the rate in which bulk projects can be undertaken, it also means that the client has no control over the writers to which his projects are assigned to.
Some outsource ghostwriting services handle this problem by having editors look over all the work that their writers send back, however most do not.
Therefore the end product that clients obtain is a mixture of high, average, and low quality articles.
Compounding this problem, and further condemning the quality of writing to fall is the fact that most outsource ghostwriting services take a 'cut' that means a client that thinks he is paying say $10 per article, could actually be only paying the writer $5 or so.
Hence the overall quality that is delivered may very well end up being 'alright' for a $5 article, but not for a $10 one.
Seemingly there is no end to this practice, and as a result the entire reputation of ghostwriting is on the line.
For starters, the evaluation of any writing is an entirely subjective process that, despite every literary effort to come up with 'guidelines', remains completely variable.
Still, every single person that has ever complained of being delivered writing that simply isn't up to scratch can't be wrong, can they? Naturally not.
Taste and varying judgment alone cannot possibly be credited as the sole cause of every complaint that has been voiced.
In light of this, it seems ever more likely that there simply must be some other reason, or reasons, that is the underlying cause of the lack of quality that many feel ghostwriting is prone to.
All in the Hands of the Writer By agreeing that the quality of the end product is entirely dependent on the writer that is working on it, a first possible problem is unveiled.
Over time, ghostwriting has gradually evolved into a team sport where, instead of one writer dealing with a client, there are multiple writers all working for an outsource service to deliver up writing.
While there are advantages to working in this sense, most noticeably the rate in which bulk projects can be undertaken, it also means that the client has no control over the writers to which his projects are assigned to.
Some outsource ghostwriting services handle this problem by having editors look over all the work that their writers send back, however most do not.
Therefore the end product that clients obtain is a mixture of high, average, and low quality articles.
Compounding this problem, and further condemning the quality of writing to fall is the fact that most outsource ghostwriting services take a 'cut' that means a client that thinks he is paying say $10 per article, could actually be only paying the writer $5 or so.
Hence the overall quality that is delivered may very well end up being 'alright' for a $5 article, but not for a $10 one.
Seemingly there is no end to this practice, and as a result the entire reputation of ghostwriting is on the line.
