The Shadow Scholar

You’ve never heard of me, but there’s a good chance that you’ve read some of my work. I’m a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can’t detect, that you can’t defend against, that you may not even know exists.

This makes me sad (and feel exceptionally square).

What troubles me most is…how smug Dante is. He “see[s] where [he’s] vulnerable to ethical scrutiny” but it took forty. eight.¹ paragraphs to get there.

It might be too easy to cherry-pick the rejected independent study as the straw that broke this writer-to-be’s back, giving license to embark on a “oh yeah? Well, watch this, motherfuckers” career, but that undeserved swagger must have started there, no?

“Say what you want about me, but I am not the reason your students cheat.” Well, no, but hey, way to be part of the solution!

And now I’m going to go wait for the UPS guy to bring my copy of “The Copyeditor’s Handbook”.

¹ Dude, I counted.

(Source: the-feature)

17 Nov 2010   70 notes   [ reblog writers ]
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    This makes me sad (and feel exceptionally square). What troubles me most is…how smug Dante is. He “see[s] where [he’s]...
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  4. mushrooom reblogged this from unabrogable and added:
    Wow. Just… wow.
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    I admire this guy for being able to churn out so much content in so many various specialised fields, and at the same...
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    didn’t hate writing papers, I could easily see myself doing this for
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    I read this from the beginning to end! In a way, I was able to relate to him because I am a shadow writer, too. However,...
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    @____@ Scary (and yet, it makes me feel better about myself…)
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