The only thing I am qualified to do is to teach English. It always
seemed to me a very bad thing that people were penalised in every other
discipline because their English was poor. You shouldn't lose marks in
geography because you can't distinguish between there, their and they're
or because your use of full stops is uncertain.
On 29/10/12 06:41, Dave Sayers wrote:
> 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
bo Akademi University
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>> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:07:54 +0000
>> From: Tina Haux<[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: PhD service
>>
>> I have been asked to forward the following email:
>>
>> Article for submission/services:
>>
>> I'm writing to you in your capacity as secretary of the UK Social Policy Association.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The link:
>>
>> http://www.orilingo.com/1/post/2012/10/how-a-professional-phd-service-can-help-you.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Anett
>>
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