On my Masters course, I have a friend who is currently doing research using the same methodology that I have used in a couple of previous projects. He's asked to read one of my essays as he's not sure how to discuss his results. I'm a bit wary of sending him an essay - recently he did a presentation where the title of his talk was extremely similar to one that me and my supervisors did and it couldn't have been a coincidence. He's a really competitive person, especially with me. I'm thinking that I might just send him one of my presentations that he has seen before even though it isn't quite what he was asking for. I hope you don't mind me posting this in the PhD forum - I thought you will probably have more experience of this sort of thing. How do you all deal with people like this? Many thanks :-)