Mamatas Interview

Mamatas's interview is about his former job as a term paper writer.  Mamatas's interview shows a great deal about him that just reading an article he wrote does not get across.  Mamatas does not write term papers for a living anymore, but hearing him speak about it demonstrates that he is still interested in it.  Mamatas voice is very fast while he's speaking about writing the term papers.  He is energetic and seems to know what he is talking about.  He is well educated and you can tell by listening to him speak.  He pronounces words correctly and shows good word choice.  He laughs a lot and makes a few jokes and seems to have enjoyed his former career.

            He still does not care about his customers and even says that if they make him angry or do something he does not like he will send the same exact paper to the teacher to basically screw them over.  That came across in the article and came across even further in the interview.  My opinion of Mamatas and his work has not changed because of hearing the interview.  He states the same things in the interview as in the article.  The only difference is that I could hear his voice.  His attitude about his job never changed and neither did my opinion of him.

            Listening to audio opposed to reading text might affect the audience in many ways.  If a person reads a well written article and agrees with the author and then they listen to an interview and the speaker is not well spoken, has an accent, or has a strange voice it could cause people to change their opinions of them.  Reading something gives people less to judge on.  All they are given is the article and they have to use their imagination on what the author is like.  Just listening to the sound of someone's voice could change people's opinions in a second.  Writing is the best medium to chose when sharing information.   It is easier to write, it is cheaper, and it is faster than other mediums.

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Explication of "The Term Paper Artist"

            Nick Mamatas's "The Term Paper Artist" is an article that discusses the system of writing term papers.  Nick Mamatas is a writer that for several years made his money off of writing term papers.  He describes the "three types of term paper clients" as well as the way he writes the term papers.

            Nick Mamatas says the first type of client is a "DUMB CLIENT."  These are the clients that are unintelligent.  One of his examples of a DUMB CLIENT asked him to "Underline the thesis statement because locating it otherwise would have been too difficult."  The second type of client is a "One-timer."  One-timers are clients that are smart, but not on the subject they are supposed to write about, and often times they are busy doing other things and need some help writing their term papers.  The third type of group is "well-educated professionals who simply lack English-language skills".  Most people from this group come from another country and English is their second language.

            Nick describes writing term papers as "extremely easy" because he has written so many of them.  He would search the internet for information, add some quotes, and create and argument.  Everything else he wrote just came to him as he was writing.  He says that he does not try to write term papers because that is not important.  The important things are "deadline, page count, and number of sources."  If he actually tried to write a term paper he would stress himself out and he would have trouble writing them.

             Nick makes writing term papers seem really easy because he does not care what grade the people ordering papers from him get.  He just wants the money and the people will give it to him as long as he gives them a paper that meets their requirements.  His way of writing papers works out very well for him but it would not work out for a student.  If a student was trying to write a paper and wrote like he does they would not get the grade they want. 

            Nick makes many humorous remarks in his article but it does not have much of a point.  He is talking about his job and basically how he writes whatever he wants because the person he's writing it for does not matter to him.  He makes writing term papers seem way to easy and he could give people a false hope of making money off of writing term papers for people.  Yes he does mention how difficult it could be but the amount of information about how easy it is over powers how hard it could be.