Y’all remember the student I supervised last year? The one I kept complaining about, the one that drove me insane?
Here is another episode in that series.
I finally finished a 4 page double spaced short communication paper about his thesis 6 weeks ago and I send it to him and Freiburg Prof who are both, obviously, co-authors.
After two attempts of having them read the short paper, the student replied (among some other things):
"Just a little comment: perhaps you could add me in the acknowledgements? I did do a little bit of work for this, remember? ;) "
He still doesn’t understand the general outline of a paper apparently. If your name is on the list of authors, clearly we don’t mention ourselves in the acknowledgements.
I explained that to him in a rather cynical tone, saying that if he would prefer to be named in the acknowledgements, that was fine by me and I would take him off the author list.
"So, in that case, I'd rather stay co-author :) "
Now prof and me launched into an email debate over some theories in the paper and whether it would in fact after all be better to make a regular paper out of it. I am sure student is bothered by all these emails he is getting from us, but I explained to him that that is his duty as a co-author.
Sigh.
Here is another episode in that series.
I finally finished a 4 page double spaced short communication paper about his thesis 6 weeks ago and I send it to him and Freiburg Prof who are both, obviously, co-authors.
After two attempts of having them read the short paper, the student replied (among some other things):
"Just a little comment: perhaps you could add me in the acknowledgements? I did do a little bit of work for this, remember? ;) "
He still doesn’t understand the general outline of a paper apparently. If your name is on the list of authors, clearly we don’t mention ourselves in the acknowledgements.
I explained that to him in a rather cynical tone, saying that if he would prefer to be named in the acknowledgements, that was fine by me and I would take him off the author list.
"So, in that case, I'd rather stay co-author :) "
Now prof and me launched into an email debate over some theories in the paper and whether it would in fact after all be better to make a regular paper out of it. I am sure student is bothered by all these emails he is getting from us, but I explained to him that that is his duty as a co-author.
Sigh.
