But language is something where its quite legitimate for someone to help
you. I once helped my friend with a thesis on microbiology - a subject
about which I know nothing - because her English is a bit uncertain. Did
I do wrong?
On 29/10/12 09:17, CRAIG G. wrote:
> I am strongly of the view that a good grasp of whatever language is required is essential. There are closely related words which however have different meanings and can therefore confuse or mislead the reader. One example I came across recently was 'effect' and 'affect'.
> Gary Craig
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> Marginalised and excluded: York's Traveller Community (2010) with Marie Neale and Mick Wilkinson, York Travellers Trust www.ytt.worldbreak.com
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> The community development reader, (2011) Eds. with M.Mayo, K. Popple, M. Shaw and M. Taylor, Policy Press.
> 'Forward to the past, can the UK Black and ethnic minority third sector survive?', (2011) Gary Craig, Voluntary Sector Review, Vol. 2, No.2
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> ________________________________________
> From: Social-Policy is run by SPA for all social policy specialists [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jean-Paul Revauger [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 October 2012 08:55
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> Subject: Re: PhD service
>
> 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
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> 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
>>>>
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