Wildflower, wildflower.
Do you crave abuse? Is that your 'thrill'?
You attack someone who posts a legitimate question. Your attack is based on weak, unsupported grounds. You ignore any challenge to your methodology. Your methodology is laughable.
You degrade this site, which is intended as one on which one can seek information.
You say, Wildflower, "I know what it is to work for a degree."
What on earth does this have to do with the question? All it does is to bring your own personal drama into the thread.
Then you say, "My father in-law is a retired Chair of English..."
Who the hell cares?
Then you blurb, "As a college grad, I was never asked to participate in anything like this for dissertation."
That is very understandable.
You have claimed, to support your very quesionable opinions in the past, that you are an R.N.
Now you are claiming that you are a "college grad", whatever that means. Pretty unspecific. You certainly don't keep up with research in your own stated field, which is medicine. This has been more than adequately shown in your previous posts.
That this site continues to fail to delete those of your posts which display gross ignorance in your claimed fields of experitse is something that continues to puzzle me.
It is as if the site managers tolerate you in order to create entertainment. Sort of a Jerry Springer approach. But this is contrary to the stated purpose of the site: ANSWERPOOL.
Example: Wildflower said, "I saw something wrong with your question from the start...
I took a closer look. I don't like what I am seeing. This is not usual practice for a professor at all. I do not believe this project is anything students will get credit for, just your professor for publication."
Well, duh, WF.
As if it is not normal practice for undergraduate research to be part of a result published by a department head or a research project leader.
Do you imagine, WF, that a research project designed and directed by a department head needs to give credit to each student who, under direction, gathers data that becomes part of the final paper? Do you not understand that the project leader's role is to weed out data that has not been gathered using standard guidelines, including protecting the interests of the test subjects themselves?
This is why the students are undergraduates. They are still in the 'education' system. They are still learning.
(Sigh!) Well, I suppose you do imagine that.
Wf, you say "He is throwing you a bone to do his work for him!!"
Of course, idiot. That is how research works. It is directed. Directed by someont who knows something about the field, and its standards and criteria.
Wf further enlightens us:
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Wf, of course. When a student enters post-graduate work, that is not an automatic licence to publish, as you say, [his/her] "thought and ideas towards a topic within scope of a grad degree".
It is, indeed, part of being accepted into the program, " ... doing your professors leg work..."
You may not like it. But acceptance does not give one carte blanche to opine at will. Data counts. That is why science makes progress. Because there are standards.
In the process of presenting research, its design and data, the student must exercise understanding of criteria and the scientific method. It is the job of the research project leader, who may be the professor or delegate, to judge whether the student understands and adheres to standards.
WF concludes: "That will not stop me from writing the University. This isn't right to ask this of students for dissertation!!"
That's okay. They probably get nut case letters every day from people who don't understand research standards. Destination: circular file.
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