Hi all,
I spent a couple of years doing copy-editing type freelance work (or, *ahem*, un-employed and
scraping by), which included some MA and PhD work, so I struggle to pour water on this sort of
thing, BUT... I think people should be cautious about recommending (as faculty) or using (as PhD
students) such services. In particular, it's important to make very sure about your own
institution's policy on the use of professional editors. I seem to recall that Canadian universities
(or maybe it was Australian...) are much keener than UK universities, many of which completely
prohibit such things. One of my current two jobs is a part-time supervisory post for Laureate Online
Education (in association with Liverpool University), and they/we are very strongly against the use
of any editors at all. (As a freelancer, I was always careful about this because I hoped to get back
into academia and didn't want this sort of thing coming back to bite me!)
And of course it is very obvious if your student's work suddenly leaps up in quality and readability
etc. This isn't the sort of thing that goes unnoticed. There's also the possibility that certain
freelance editors (and I'm not casting any aspersions on the one being advertised here) plagiarise
either their own previous editing work, or other published research -- both of which would show up
quickly in TurnItIn, or in other automatic plagiarism-checking software.
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University
and Visiting Lecturer (2012-2013), Dept English, Ã
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> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:07:54 +0000
> From: Tina Haux <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: PhD service
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> I have been asked to forward the following email:
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> Article for submission/services:
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> I'm writing to you in your capacity as secretary of the UK Social Policy Association.
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> I run a small communications company and I have written a short article about the PhD Service we offer that I'm hoping will be of interest to SPA members.
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> I'm including a direct link that I hope you will use as you see fit. And please let me know if I can supply any additional information and if you prefer the article in a different format.
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> The link:
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> http://www.orilingo.com/1/post/2012/10/how-a-professional-phd-service-can-help-you.html
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> Best regards,
>
> Anett
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