The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students' papers tells his story

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by tater

I did typeset, layout, and copy edit my wife's PhD dissertation (did the art, too).

Does that count? (not like layout is hard when those idiots still insist on double spacing, etc (making the whole thing nearly impossible to read)). I did a proper job so we could have a legible copy bound .

As long as you were declared to the Dissertation Committee and were listed on the Dissertation as support, there should be no problem.

[Platapus]

My supervisor used to be a college instructor a bunch of years back. He also said that plagiarism was rampant back then.

His school had this stupid rule that any class that a Freshman failed, was not put on their record and they could take it over with no penalty.

My boss, being rather cruel, when he caught one of his students plagiarizing, he gave them a D-

Stays on their record and no retakes.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Platapus

As long as you were declared to the Dissertation Committee and were listed on the Dissertation as support, there should be no problem.

I was listed someplace. At her defense I was in the "thanks you" explicitly as putting it all on the computer, scanning stuff, etc.