Re this ad as several commentators pointed out these seem more like AP high school history assignments. Would a grad level history program really assign papers like these?
Is this a plausible a graduate level assignment or is this likely shenanigans?
Assuming this to be legit, the alleged grad student should have also included:
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In my grad program, you may see something along these lines as a weekly assignment- the sort of thing that’s designed to check attendance and make sure you’ve done some reading. Midterm and final papers would be longer and more specific.
College student takes history class thinking it is a blow-off subject and suddenly finds himself way behind the power curve due to laziness or taking too much of a course load for the semester with his/her other “real” classes and is now desperate. That is a tremendous amount of writing he wants done in a very short time assuming this is a very recent ad.
My question is: how does he/she know they won’t pay the $50, and then have you jerk them around while time runs out, only to then not deliver the papers by the deadline when it is too late to hire someone else. I hope that happens to teach them a lesson.
Pretty much this. I’ve been in a grad class where a typical week included two different writing assignments, neither of them very long (1-5 pages maybe, rarely more than 10). You had to write a little on all sorts of different topics. You weren’t graded so much on how long your essay was but on whether or not you discussed everything that was expected. You were NOT expected to just write page after page of crap and say, well, it’s ten pages and the expectation is ten pages so it’s a good paper.
If that’s the case I would think even a mediocre grad student would be expected to be able to bang these things out. He’s offering $ 600 for doing what amounts to weekly homework, not a term paper? Wow.
Why is he insisting that one person write all three papers? Given that he wants thirty pages within a week, it seems like he’s asking for hackwork. He’d get better results by splitting the job (and the money) up among three different people.
I have a Masters in history. This is absolutely not anything like what I did, ever. First of all, a “review of any WWII related person or topic” is incredibly vague for a MA-level paper. “Any topic from pre-contact up to the Civil War” is also incredibly wide-ranging. All the coursework I did was either incredibly specific and/or complex, OR it involved theory and philosophy. Or both. Ten pages of writing, as mentioned, is a week’s assignment, not a term paper. Five sources is laughably low for a paper of that wide-ranging complexity.
APA style is also not very common in history. It’s mostly used in psych and social sciences. I mean, it’s possible for a history grad program to use APA but it’s vastly vastly vastly more likely they’ll use Chicago or Turabian.
This is either AP high school work, or maximum introductory or 2nd year university coursework.
I suppose it’s possible, in that all things are possible. But I think it vastly more probable that’s it a high school or university student trying to sound more important than he is, with more money than sense.
Furthermore, “thesis,” “research,” and “review” are all very defined concepts in a grad program and mixing them together in assignment titles is less than senseless. This is not part of a thesis. There is no original research involved. And none of it is scholarly review of works.
Hmm, I would definitely write those papers for $600, because they don’t sound very hard to write and I could use the moolah, but I wonder why someone studying graduate level history doesn’t want to write their own papers. Anyone at the graduate level should be able to bang those out over a long hard weekend if he’s behind on his work. It could be a high school AP student who already has an acceptance letter from wherever U and wants to start his summer a little early.
My guess would be that it’s an undergrad who is hoping they can get grad-level writing out of the cash they are paying. Someone advertising for an undergrad paper is going to get all kinds of yahoos that would be reluctant to take on a grad paper.
It is a chunk of change to pay for laziness. My first thought is that it may be a non-native English speaker (ad could have been put up by a friend) whose English level isn’t up to these papers. Other than that, maybe they are out of the country or on a heroin binge or something and just can’t write it.
I see your point. It’s odd that a grad student would require this. You’d figure if they wanted a masters in history they would uber history wonks and would be all over this not begging for paid ghost writers.