Wouldn't it be a good idea to make sure our students can write tolerable
English - or whatever national langage- without the help of rewriters,
editors... or spell checks. Toleration of poor standards reinforces
inequalities.
Best wishes, Jean paul Révauger (France, naturally)
Le 29/10/2012 08:48, Socialist Health Association a écrit :
> 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
>>
>> --
>> 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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>> http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>
--
Jean Paul Révauger
FRE Europe Européanité Européanisation
Université de Bordeaux III.
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