May 05, 2009 01:46
According to the rules posted on this community's personal page, papers are not allowed to be posted here.
But it happened today and the world did not end.
This I am posting this community's first poll. Poll Posting papers for comment
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We're all undergrads right? How many of us are submitting essays to conferences/journals? If its a essay for a class...I dunno, maybe I'm less cynical in this regard than you are....
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Besides, I think the need for supportive advice for papers > plagiarism, and supportive advice always helps a community grow, at least I think :) /naiive optimism
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(Btw I'm a complete lurker in this community, so if I seem like I'm coming in out of the blue, that's exactly the case.)
I don't object to the idea of using this community as a place to find people willing to offer feedback and editing help, but I think actually posting papers is, for the reasons above, just a plain bad idea. Not that any of it would probably really happen, but the possibility is there and why risk it?
If I were to post a paper looking for critique from the people here, I would probably actually post an abstract/summary and ask for anyone interested to send me an e-mail. Slightly more effort but it would greatly cut down on the chances of anything sinister happening. (Plus, if people have Google accounts, Google Docs is a great tool for having multiple inputs on one paper, and I'm sure other webmail services have similar stuff.)
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