{"id":1582,"date":"2009-03-16T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2009-03-16T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:14:38","slug":"a-letter-from-someone-elses-stu-dent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"A letter from someone else’s Stu Dent"},"content":{"rendered":"

I generally don’t write about students I am currently teaching. I will occasionally write about events months or years later, but generally not in the same semester. But I have an e-mail this morning from someone else’s Stu Dent:<\/p>\n

Hi I am from England, currently studying a <\/i>[type of] degree in <\/i>[field]. For my last piece of work, we have a 3000 individual project to complete. My project is trying to answer this hypothesis: <\/i>[hypothesis in a field far from mine]. I have found some recent statistics which have your name attached: <\/i>[what follows is a statement I don’t recognize]. Unfortunately I found this data a few months ago, and did not reference it properly. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me a link where you got this information from, or send me a link to your document showing this information….<\/i> Thank you, Stu Dent<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

Dear Stu, Looking closely at your e-mail, I will confess that your statement is
\nentirely unfamiliar to me, and I don’t think I’ve ever written those
\nwords.<\/p>\n

Good luck with your project. It’s designed so that YOU do the hard work of research because it’s in your best interest as a student. So I’d be undercutting the whole point of the project if I didn’t give you the chance to learn from it by doing it entirely by yourself. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is not nearly as bad as graduate students who spam an e-mail list saying, “Please complete this survey online” or any student who writes, “I’m writing on X [very well-studied] topic; can anyone help me with the literature?” But you think that in an upper-level course in any program, students would still have learned that it’s their job to do the research. And if you’re going to contact a faculty member at another institution, you think that there might be some value in looking to see if the faculty member is an expert in what you’re studying. Sigh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I generally don’t write about students I am currently teaching. I will occasionally write about events months or years later, but generally not in the same semester. But I have an e-mail this morning from someone else’s Stu Dent: Hi I am from England, currently studying a [type of] degree in [field]. For my last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-pw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}