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Category Archives: conferences
Is it wrong to buy publications from grad students and pass them off as your own?
Apparently it is in China – if you get caught. Chinese academia ghost-writing ‘widespread’ This BBC article claims that “More than $100m (£63m) changes hands in China every year for ghost-written academic papers, according to research by a Chinese university.” … Continue reading
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Be professional enough to do a decent literature review…
SHEESH! I get a lot of papers to review in Game Studies; Serious Games; Educational Games., etc. I used to learn a lot from reading these papers. Not anymore. Not only is much of what I read “old news” (i.e. … Continue reading
Rant About Conference Websites
I seem to be on a bit of a Rant-kick today. Perhaps it is partly because I am now finished my dissertation and have successfully defended it. I don’t feel the same need to placate. Many of the conferences I … Continue reading
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