About Essay Guardian
Essay Guardian publishes guides to the papers students actually write, and plain rules for using AI writing tools on them without losing authorship.
What we publish
Three kinds of page, each answering one question a student asks with a paper due.
How guides are researched and checked
Each guide starts from the way the paper is marked: published assessment criteria, module handbooks and university guidance on structure and AI use. We write the guide around what the paper has to prove, then check it against those sources.
- Read the rules at the source. Criteria, handbooks and policies, not summaries of them.
- Build the guide around the proof. What the paper must show, then the sections that show it.
- Quote with a date. Every rule we quote links its source and the date we read it.
- Show the review date. The date at the top of each guide is when it was last checked against its sources.
What this domain used to be
From 2012 to 2019 this address hosted an essay writing service. Essay Guardian is a new publication with no connection to it: it sells no papers and writes nothing for students.
We kept the name because it still describes what students come here for: someone checking their work before they hand it in. We did not keep anything else. The old order pages, price calculator and articles are gone, and old addresses for paper types now lead to our guide for that paper, such as the guides to dissertations, research proposals and book reviews. Addresses that only ever existed to sell a paper return a gone page.
That history is also why two of our pages exist. From essay mills to chatbots explains how paid essay services worked and what changed when AI writing tools arrived. Are essay writing services legal? sets out the laws that now make selling or advertising them a crime in several countries. Both sit in our integrity section, which covers where help ends and someone else's work begins.
What we never do
- Write, rewrite or edit a paper for a student.
- Name, recommend or link to an essay writing service.
- Tell you a use of AI is allowed when your course is the one that decides.
- Quote a rule without its source and the date we read it.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong or out of date, tell us through the contact page. Include the address of the page and what needs fixing. When we correct a guide, we fix it at the source and the date at the top of the page moves to the day of the change. If a correction changes advice you may already have acted on, such as what a rule allows, we say so in the guide itself.