I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on the Side

Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by phist_mcgee on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:16AM (#20593605)

Can we all agree that the author of that article wrote incredibly unsparingly, and did not presenT any form of an interesting narrative, for something that could have been a quite interesting topic/personal story. In fact, it felt like I was reading the work of someone who was not interested in writing whatsoever, which is funny considering that they are a professor at a liberal arts college.

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Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by Legogris on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:23PM (#20594233)

Personally I abhor the trend of needing to create a complete personal story out of every experience. I am not interested in several paragraphs of where the author happens to be in life, how their morning went and all their personal relationships and thoughts where I am really interested in the topic they're supposed to be talking about.

I read to expand my views, not to feel artificially connected to whomever the author is.

I prefer the writing style in this piece over most articles on Vice, TBH.

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Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by homonculus1 on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:34PM (#20595418)

I too hate long-form writing, I cannot bear to read it ever ever ever. If you need to flex your imagery chops on the reader that badly then write fiction, otherwise get to the damn point!

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Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by tasubotadas on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:13PM (#20597064)

"It was an early Sunday morning when I've first met X while he was holding his hand full of bagels. Only later that day I would learn that it was actually for his dog as he is a big and naughty fan of them"

Articles that start like this make me puke. Go and write a book if you want to be a writer.

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Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by skrebbel on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:30AM (#20593755)

No, we can't. I enjoyed reading it. It was light, honest and I liked the differences in pace.

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Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by mindcrime on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:48PM (#20595009)

In fact, it felt like I was reading the work of someone who was not interested in writing whatsoever, which is funny considering that they are a professor at a liberal arts college.

Remember, you're not reading the words written by the original author... you're reading a (possibly heavily) edited version that reflects as much on the editor as the author. As the disclaimer at the bottom says The above has been edited and condensed for clarity.

FWIW, I've had a handful of articles published online (mainly at Infoworld) and I can attest that the editing process can, at times, be pretty severe in terms of how much the original text is altered.

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Re:I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on th... by mark259 on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:30AM (#20593758)

It would be very funny indeed, except that the writing is done by a journalist.

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