1. Stability and trustworthiness: When chossing any professional service, look first at how long that business has been in operation. Choose a service with a proven track record. Ask how many years have you been in business? The longer the better! beware of "internet only" business and those which have no real office.

2. Corporate safety: Make sure you are dealing with an US corporation. If the name of the business does not have an "Inc", stay away! Corporations have accountability to their clients because they must adhere to Federal and State Requlations.

3. Look at cost: A cheap price yields a cheap product ..........not something you want to rely upon at this stage of your professional and academic career. Experienced researcher/writers with advanced degrees from U.S. universities demand substantial fees for their work. If someone offers you a Review of Literature for less than $80 to $120 per page, stay away! Each page of a literature review requires about two and a half hours of research, reading, planning and writing time. this translates into a fair fee of $80 to $120 per page.

4. Qualifications: How can a business do doctoral level work for less than the fees discussed above? They do it by using : non-US writers (most are based in Third World countries) who have non-US degrees. Only U.S. trained and degreed academic writers should be helping you with your dissertation.

5. Staffing: A samll and seasoned staff of writers is good! Compainies which advertise that ;they have a hundred or more writers cannot possibly vouch for the background, experience, research or writing skills or ethics of those writers. Most will be based somewhere outside the U.S. The company will have no personal relationb ship with those writers, and will never have longterm relationships with their writers; they know them, have verified their degrees and backgrounds, and have an ongoing business relationship with them.

6. What services are offered? A professional dissertation service company will offer you a full range of services, including literature review, document identification and retrieval, chapter editing, proposal assistance, consulting on advisor and other issues, dissertation counseling, assistance with preparation of academic papers, journal articles, comps and other research and writing needs.

7. Payment issues: A legitmate company will ask for a deposit on the work and will provide you with a sample of the completed work before you pay the remainder of the fee.

8. Sources: A legitimate business will provide you with copies of the full text of the sources used to create your Revies of Literature. You MUST have them to confirm that the sources have been used properly, ethically and appropriately; you will want to have them for use in other chapters.

9. Quality Controll: Look for a service with an experienced, professional staff you can call during business hours to discuss your project, your needs, your specifications. You will rely upon that staff to quide your dissertation (Review of Literature, Proposal or other project) from the initiation of your order through completion.

10. Custom Work Only: Some companies will sell you pre-written document instead of doing CUSTOM work. Your dissertation must be entirely original; you cannot reproduce, copy or otherwise use any type of "canned" document. Your Review of literature must be written around the variables of YOUR study. A cheap price means you are NOT receiving a custom-research and custom-written document.

11. Confidentiallty: You must deal with a company which has a proven record of trustworthiness in preserving the confidentiality of your personal information and your dissertation document. Such a company will provide you with their written confidentiallty guarantee in writing.