{"id":197,"date":"2013-10-27T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2013-10-27T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T14:20:10","slug":"dont-want-to-write-that-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/dont-want-to-write-that-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Want To Write That Lecture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For academics, this request seems like a very reasonable price to pay to get someone else to get someone else to prepare a set of “good enough<\/em>” slides for you.<\/p>\n

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I had this example planned as a slide for one of my own research presentations, but with that presentation at 60 slides at present, this just wouldn’t have fit it.<\/p>\n

I support I could have saved myself a lot of time and had other people outbidding themselves to produce that talk for me for just $6 (\u00a33.71 according to Google). Even comparing the options and paying double that to get a competent worker involved, this would represent a good deal.<\/p>\n

There’s certainly no excuse for academics to not have a set of slides prepared when you can get offers like that (9 bidders so far), although I’d recommend setting this type of auction up as a fixed price rather than paying by the hour. Of course, I don’t know if paying someone to create your slides would be ethical<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

What next? Get someone in to deliver the lecture (there are some that would argue that PhD students are already taken advantage of in that way…)?<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m one of those people who has my own presentation style and likes to be very much in control of my own slides, but I see an increasing numbers of posts on agency sites like this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For academics, this request seems like a very reasonable price to pay to get someone else to get someone else to prepare a set of “good enough” slides for you. I had this example planned as a slide for one of my own research presentations, but with that presentation at 60 slides at present, this …<\/p>\n

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