{"id":73577,"date":"2012-08-26T19:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2012-08-26T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:19:32","slug":"america-these-are-some-your-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/26\/america-these-are-some-your-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"America, these are (some) your graduate students"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t, you should check out The Shadow Scholar, The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story<\/a>. This is the conclusion:<\/p>\n

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“Thanx u so much for the chapter is going very good the porfesser likes it but wants the folloing suggestions please what do you thing?:<\/p>\n

“‘The hypothesis is interesting but I’d like to see it a bit more focused. Choose a specific connection and try to prove it.’<\/p>\n

“What shoudwe say?”<\/p>\n

This happens a lot. I get paid per assignment. But with longer papers, the student starts to think of me as a personal educational counselor. She paid me to write a one-page response to her professor, and then she paid me to revise her paper. I completed each of these assignments, sustaining the voice that the student had established and maintaining the front of competence from some invisible location far beneath the ivory tower.<\/p>\n

The 75-page paper on business ethics ultimately expanded into a 160-page graduate thesis<\/b>, every word of which was written by me. I can’t remember the name of my client, but it’s her name on my work. We collaborated for months. As with so many other topics I tackle, the connection between unethical business practices and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t, you should check out The Shadow Scholar, The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story. This is the conclusion:
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