[tips] The Shadow Scholar
The Chronicle Review has an article authored by a ghost author of student work. There is likely nothing new for most of us in this piece, except that it is a first person report. The extent of the cheating is immense. http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/ I saw this on Arts Letters Daily - http://www.aldaily.com/ Dennis -- Dennis M. Goff Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Randolph College (Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891) Lynchburg VA 24503 dg...@randolphcollege.edu mailto:dg...@randolphcollege.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6479 or send a blank email to leave-6479-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Shadow Scholar
Thanks, Dennis. This eye-opening article is very similar - though not in a plagiarism sense- to one published some years ago: Witherspoon, Abigail. This Pen For Hire: On Grinding Out Papers For College Students. Harper's Magazine June 1995:49-58. I suspect that there is now greater demand for such services. Miguel - Original Message - From: Dennis Goff dg...@randolphcollege.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:44:17 AM Subject: [tips] The Shadow Scholar The Chronicle Review has an article authored by a ghost author of student work. There is likely nothing new for most of us in this piece, except that it is a first person report. The extent of the cheating is immense. http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/ I saw this on Arts Letters Daily - http://www.aldaily.com/ Dennis -- Dennis M. Goff Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Randolph College ( Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891 ) Lynchburg VA 24503 dg...@randolphcollege.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: roig-rear...@comcast.net . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13482.917fac06d4daae681dabfe964ca8c74en=Tl=tipso=6479 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-6479-13482.917fac06d4daae681dabfe964ca8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6490 or send a blank email to leave-6490-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Shadow Scholar
That's a pretty amazing article. I didn't doubt that it happened, but the level of detail about the process is fascinating. I have little doubt that he over-estimates the scope of the problem somewhat. It happens to everyone on the front lines. Talk to a cop sometime about what average people are like. Ironically, I like the guy's attitude toward his work. It is much better than that of the students he serves (and that of many of the students who haven't yet stooped quite so low). He takes on a job as a challenge, and pumps it out on schedule. I wonder if he wants to go to graduate school after he retires. :-) Chris --- Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada chri...@yorku.ca On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Dennis Goff dg...@randolphcollege.edu wrote: The Chronicle Review has an article authored by a ghost author of student work. There is likely nothing new for most of us in this piece, except that it is a first person report. The extent of the cheating is immense. http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/ I saw this on Arts Letters Daily - http://www.aldaily.com/ Dennis -- Dennis M. Goff Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Randolph College (Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891) Lynchburg VA 24503 dg...@randolphcollege.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0dan=Tl=tipso=6479 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-6479-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6501 or send a blank email to leave-6501-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Shadow Scholar
Personally I found that the article stated nothing new, over-represented the problem, and most of all was really boring. I think the author's self-aggrandizing real point is that he is an amazingly gifted and brilliant scholar which the college system failed to recognize. I also imagine that he pictures himself to hold the equivalent of a Ph.D. in many, many areas. I see the author as a frustrated juvenile who finally got a publication of his own in the aforementioned article. I think his ghost writing behavior is being fueled by his blaming and general contempt for college, academics, and faculty. He is getting-back-at-the-system which wouldn't recognize his amazing talents. BORING. P.S. This personality profile of the author was constructed by me and does not represent the opinion of any known clinical psychologist living or dead. Any resemblence to a real personality profile is accidental :-) --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6506 or send a blank email to leave-6506-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
