[单项选择]It is possible for students to obtain advanced degrees in English while knowing little or nothing about traditional scholarly methods. The consequences of this neglect of traditional scholarship are particularly unfortunate for the study of women writers. If the canon—the list of authors whose works are most widely taught—is ever to include more women, scholars who do not know how to read early manuscripts, locate rare books, establish a sequence of editions, and so on are lacking in crucial tools for revising the canon.
To address such concerns, an experimental, version of the traditional scholarly methods course was designed to raise students’ consciousness about the usefulness of traditional learning for any modern critic or theorist. To minimize the artificial aspects of the conventional course, the usual procedure of assigning a large number of small problems drawn from the entire range of historical periods was abandoned, though this procedure has the obvious advantage of at
A. It would lead the student to disregard information found in the Bibliotheca Britannica.
B. It would teach the student to question the accuracy of certain kinds of information sources when studying neglected authors.
C. It would teach the student to avoid the use of reference sources in studying neglected authors.
D. It would enhance the student’s appreciation of the works of authors not included in the canon.