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freduardo	Post subject: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:11 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:17 pm Posts: 30 Location: Batting clean-up	Seeking Ghost Writer for Tired Students We need a self starting journalist who can work on deadline. Our assignments are ghost-written college essays, college admission's essays, college research and term papers. The pay is competitive with industry standards. The applicant must be able to cite sources in all formats including APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. Much experience is not necessary but a degree in journalism is a must! Email to cherryenglish63@yahoo.com with "Journalist" in the subject line and we can agree on a time to call each other on the phone. The pay is $9 per 250 words. When on shorter deadlines and the assignments are rushed the pay rate goes up to $12.50 per 250 words. Please do not apply and ask for more pay than what we are offering. Via Journalism Jobs
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JayByrd	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:57 pm
Joined: Fri May 03, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 380 Location: Butte, MT (almost Great Falls)	Forget ethics. Sounds like conspiracy to commit fraud to me.
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Editer	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:15 pm
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:33 pm Posts: 1225 Location: Texas	Dan Ariely decided to see what these paper mills actually produce, so he ordered a 12-page paper on cheating in academia from four of them. Some excerpts: Quote: “Cheating by healers. Healing is different. There is harmless healing, when healers-cheaters and wizards offer omens, lapels, damage to withdraw, the husband-wife back and stuff. We read in the newspaper and just smile. But these days fewer people believe in wizards.” “If the large allowance of study undertook on scholar betraying is any suggestion of academia and professors’ powerful yearn to decrease scholar betraying, it appeared expected these mind-set would component into the creation of their school room guidelines.” “By trusting blindfold only in stable love, loyalty, responsibility and honesty the partners assimilate with the credulous and naïve persons of the past.“ And two of the papers were themselves partially plagiarized.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:47 am
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Wow. I was going to say something about ethical breach not being worth the low pay. Looks like those companies get what they pay for.
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KfitzR	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:23 am
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	That reads like something sent through a translation program into a foreign language and then translated back into English words.
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:04 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	The copy does seem computer-generated. Maybe it's merely written in a foreign language on the super-cheap and translated into English.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:12 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	A lesson I learned more than 35 years ago: When the ad makes any reference to "self-starting," I move the hell on.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: Leave your ethics at the door, please Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:14 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	"...with Journalist in the subject line." ***Stop it! You're killing me!"
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