who earned master-of-fine-arts degrees in creative writing, and he found that students who had allowed open access to their theses went on to have more-successful careers, in terms of material published and further education, than those who didn't.Professors of writing are skeptical. Publishers still operate by the rule of turning down manuscripts that are already freely available, says Mr. [Mark] Brazaitis, who is a novelist.
from The Chronicle of Higher Education: Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web
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