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Is using an academic ghost writer dishonest?

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Yes
67% 309 votes Total: 459 votes
No
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by Katherine Johnson

Created on: February 03, 2010

As a writer, who has done a lot of academic ghost writing, I do not think that it is wrong for a person to use my services. For the most part the person who has hired me has important information and may be better at lecturing on the topic, than actually writing the information in print. They may also have a vocabulary or an understanding that is more academic than the level needed for the person reading it, they may need a ghost writer to make the work understandable to someone who may not have as much education on the topic as the author.

Using a ghost writer allows a writer, creative writers, academic writers, and article writers, learn how to put their thoughts and research in a concise and well thought out presentation. By doing this the author has information that he gives the writer, his own research, interviews he has done, and pictures he may have taken, now it is the ghost writers job to take all the information and put it into an organized and interesting way, in addition he will provide a flow and change technical information into readable information. This is why academic writers look for academic ghost writers, so that they can have their work make since to other people.

If you go to lectures, the professors may speak in dates, times, rules, theories and a lot of academic information, however for someone who is new to the topic, looking for information is not going to understand what he is talking about if he wrote these things in print without having someone make it readable to everyone. College students taking a class need the information to make sense so that they are able to read and understand what the professor is saying. Having their academic writing in words allows them to get a better understanding of what the professor is trying to say.

Additionally, there are also some people who like to teach themselves what they need to know and will purchase academic books to do that however if they were written in the "academic speak" of the author, then they would not get the understanding that they want from the book. Ghost writers understand this, and even though they are writing the authors information, research and words, they are writing them in a way that a student will understand and appreciate. They are spelling out terms that are hard to understand, they are explaining concepts in the right places throughout the book. They are giving the student a more thorough education, which means that  the person gets the information they need to help them to succeed in this class.

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