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The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Editor's note: Ed Dante is a pseudonym for a writer who lives on the East Coast. Through a literary agent, he approached The Chronicle wanting to tell the story of how he makes a living writing papers for a custom-essay company and to describe the extent of student cheating he has observed. In the course of editing his article, The Chronicle reviewed correspondence Dante had with clients and some of the papers he had been paid to write. In the article published here, some details of the assignment he describes have been altered to protect the identity of the student.

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august 2011 by fjordaan

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Cover Letters From Hell

What follows are dozens of examples gleaned from these efforts, to amaze and horrify you. It's an ever-changing gallery of mangled syntax, misbegotten diction, and unedited effluvia. Here in the post-literate era, new specimens arrive often.

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Where “WWW” means “Wretched Writers Welcome”

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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A people pattern - Bobulate

When contacting any person for the first time, there’s a pattern, whether getting in touch by email, by phone, or in person:

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december 2009 by fjordaan

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20 tips for writing for the web | FatDUX | blogging about user experiences

Here are some of the many tips I give our clients during my popular “Writing for the web” workshop.

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august 2009 by fjordaan

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Livescribe: Never Miss A Word

Smartpen: records audio and writing

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july 2009 by fjordaan

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http://strangenoises.org/subversion-for-writers/

This article was inspired by a question asked by a user on the WriteRoom Forum. This person was asking about facilities for working with multiple drafts of a work in progress; a process he was currently doing manually by saving his work with a new timestamp in the files’ names every time. What a lot of work! Clearly a job for a lazy geek to step in and show how it can be done easily!

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may 2008 by fjordaan

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Writeroom

For people who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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may 2008 by fjordaan

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Juicy Studio: Writing a Good Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statements are an ideal place to empower visitors to your website. Most accessibility statements are too technical, and don't necessarily address the needs of the visitor. Those that do address the needs of visitors often have the information lost in a myriad of other information that is unlikely to be understood by the average visitor to the website. What should and shouldn't be included in an accessibility statement?

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february 2008 by fjordaan

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