Ok, Carrie has decided that professors should let students write general survey papers rather than honing in on a specific aspect of the topic. Why? Because there are no broad papers already written, outside of Wikipedia! I am trying to write about 10,000 research papers right now, and they all have to have a specific topic. That's all well and good, but there are no general articles, or really even books, that give me a broad synopsis to go off of. For example, I am looking for an article about nonverbal communication, but everything I find is way to specific for my needs. I am writing about Jesus's use of nonverbal communication in John 8:1-11, so I need an article to explain some basic nonverbal ideas. (I have long since given up on trying to find anything specific about Jesus and nonverbal communication. Every search engine I have tried comes up blank.) Anyways, I keep finding articles like, "Grammatical tense deficits in children with SLI and nonspecific language impairment: relationships with nonverbal IQ over time," or "Relations among linguistic and cognitive skills and spoken word recognition in adults with cochlear implants." Maybe I just need a lesson in how to research. But it's frustrating in the meantime.
So someday, when I am a teacher, my students will have at least one broad research topic to write about. That way, future generations will be able to find a handful of general papers to glean info from.
The end.
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