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zipplewrath

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2. Saw this first hand

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:15 AM

Oct 2018

An "in-law" asked me to review a paper prior to submission. It was roughly about culturally based education. I was appalled. References were circular. Definitions seemed to be fluid. The repetition was excessive, it appeared to be done in order to lengthen the paper. There was precious little actual "research" done, it was closer to a literature search than anything. I made a few comments and they weren't well received. They ended up saying something about "just wanting me to review format and language".

I was shocked that it got published.

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Not anymore exboyfil Oct 2018 #1

But the claim wasn't quite relevant. Igel Oct 2018 #4

Saw this first hand zipplewrath Oct 2018 #2

This is what I saw when I was in engineering graduate school in the 1990s exboyfil Oct 2018 #3