On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 98-12-22 21:21:41 EST, you write:
> Standards differ in different disciplines. A friend of mine from law school is
> a PhD engineer--he' goung to be a patent lawyer. His adviser published my
> friend's Ph/D dissertation as a book with "joint" authorship, his own (the
> adviser's) name first,a lthough he contribured nothing but the introduction to
> the book. My fruend was amused that I was appalled. That's the way it's done
> in engineering, he said; he wasn't bothered. I should say that his PhD was
> from the top department in his field. In philosophy, anyway, and I am pretty
> sure in political science and law, that sort of thing would be misconduct of
> the sort that could lose you tenure. --jks
>
Seems like I've known a bunch of grad students who have "coauthored"
papers with a prof. Grad student does all the work--prof. reads it, tells
them what to change, and then signs his/her name to the paper, above the
students.
frances